So for Project 4, with the theme of "Thoughts at 3.a.m", I decided to incorporate journal entries about what would be keeping me up that late. For creative purposes, I decided to gradually make the entries more and more unhinged until the end where it all goes to Hell in a hand basket. There are certainly elements of truth here, especially early on, about what would be going through my head for something like this, but I took creative license with the last two entries, considering, you know, I don't have any murderous or suicidal thoughts or anything.
I handwrote the entries, with the first one being VERY meticulous considering how mediocre my penmanship is. The illustrator element is the "grading" of the work by an unknown entity. It's taunting and unimpressed. Maybe it's my inner voice? Maybe it's God? I left that deliberately open to interpretation. The ending was inspired by the album Encore by Eminem, where he ends by shooting various members of his audience before turning the gun on himself (Spoiler alert!), and even blatantly reference the CD cover at the end, which also helps leave what I/alternate me did open to interpretation. I photoshopped a variety of elements into the pages just to kind of add a visual to certain words, mostly on the first page: Admittedly, this probably makes it too cluttered, but I also didn't want to just half-ass the photoshop requirement, plus I could artistically argue that since my brain's cluttered at that time with a variety of thoughts, having the page reflect that could make sense. The photoshop at the end is the aforementioned Encore CD text under my handwritten version, while also placing a shattered mirror next to it. The tailing of that text actually blends in with the glass, which was a purely happy coincidence.
But yeah, again, for the record, I'm good. I just wanted to take my idea in an interesting direction.
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