The “You’re Invited!” assignment was to “Make an invitation for any event, whether it occur or not. Pick an event from a movie even! What does the invitation say about the event? Get creative.” I decided to tie my character Mia in with this assignment.

Mia doesn’t have a lot of time to spend on herself, since she is both a librarian and a secret agent. This results in her not being able to spend much time with her friends. However, this week she had a pretty light workload, so she decided to get together with some of her friends. She is throwing a movie and paint night at her house.

I used Canva to create the invitation. Previously, I have only used invitations with a template, which requires almost no work. This was the first time I’ve ever designed an invitation from scratch.

As I was designing, I tried to keep in mind what I wanted the invitation to say about the event. I used different design concepts such as minimalism, symbolism, and typography. I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out! Maybe next time I need an invitation I will design it myself. You can see the final product below.

For this assignment I created an invitation to a masquerade ball from the Alfred Hitchcock film, which is based on a book, Rebecca. I used a few different fonts, meant to be fancy but classy. Most of the fonts already came loaded onto Photoshop, but I did download some free use fonts. The invitation is meant to be an invitation given out to Rebecca’s friends before she mysteriously died, so I wanted to also include a Gothic and mysterious feel to the invitation.

DS106! Mark it down in your calendars. Sara sparkle and Rose King from SparKling will have a live event on Central Park Downtown NYC! Make sure you will be there on time! They will be preforming deferent scenarios over the night! Make sure you review Your invitations and get tickets before they are all sold out!

For part of my 10 stars of assignments for this week, I chose to do the you’re invited project. The assignment was to create an invitation to some sort of event. I saw this as a perfect opportunity to create a invitation letter to my character Jack from the Noir Not the Father radio show. I have been getting better at photo editing so I was exited to take on this project as something that for once wasn’t completely unfamiliar.

3 and a half stars http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/youre-invited/

For this assignment, Melody Bay, from the influence of her father agreed to hold a showcase for the town of her recent summer paintings. She does not plan on attending the event but she is sending the invites to the guys from her radio show House of Noir(Jeff and Spence) because there is some good paintings of them she did from the show.

I thought that this assignment was good for the story line of the radio show we did. Since it was a dinner party, I made the invitations for all the characters that were in our group. I did not want it to be a silly looking invitation, so I choose black with a color close to gold.

The shark at the bottom represents the person who sent the invitation, Mr. Shark.

So. Collaboration Week Continues.

Kelsey and I decided to do the design assignment You’re Invited! (worth 3.5 stars). The task: Creating invitations for different events says a lot about what is going to happen. Make an invitation for either any event, whether it occur or not. Pick an event from a movie even! What does the invitation say about the event? Get creative.

So as you all know, we had to incorporate our characters into all of our assignments this week. For this assignment, Blair’s eldest son Charles Jr, is getting married, and an invitation was sent to Stella. I was in charge of creating the invitation while Kelsey was in charge of creating the RSVP card.

To make the invitation, I looked up some templates on the internet. The one I liked the most was this:

However, I didn’t like the bottom of it, so I ended up cropping it out, and creating my own bottom. I tried to find a blue that somewhat matched the blue of the heart balloon for the bottom. I already had downloaded these fonts for other assignments, and for fun, so they were easy to pull from. I also had to pick a name for the spouse-to-be of Blair’s son. I am a little bit obsessed with the Duggars from 19 Kids and Counting, and the Bates from Bringing Up Bates. Don’t ask why. It’s somewhat embarrassing, but whatever. I’ll admit it. One of the Bates girls is having a baby girl, and her name is Allie Jane. I thought it flowed well and I just picked a generic last name because she’s getting married and what does it matter anyway. So then I found a place in Michigan for them to get married, and voila.

This is my final creation:

Kelsey had to make the RSVP Card. This was the template:

However, I thought it was ugly, so I used Gimp to erase all of the black words. I sent Kelsey This:

And she magically created this:

SO We had fun with this assignment, and if anyone else’s character wants to come to the wedding, there is an open bar and we have a few extra invites we can send out!

7.5 Stars down, 2.5 to go!

One of this week’s design assignments was called, “You’re Invited!” The goal was to, “Make an invitation for either any event, whether it occur or not. Pick an event from a movie even! What does the invitation say about the event? Get creative.”

I decided to make my invitations for Cecilia and James’s wedding. We had to have 6 stars dedicated to our nor character, so with this and the newspaper assignment I meet my quota.

[Worth 3 1/2 stars]

I used a website called Wedding Paper Divas. They have various programs that allow you to create any type of save the date you want.

I related this assignment (3 points) to my noir character which was a creating invitation card to him. (John Brown)

This invitation card is from John Brown’s step-father to invited people to his wife, also John Brown’s mother, Mary  Brown. After John Brown got this invitation, he just threw away and decided to not to go. He just does not want to his family. He have been damaged from his family and his family members knew that he would not come but sent the invitation to grab a little bit of hope for coming.

To complete this assignment, I downloaded the invitation template and uploaded to Adobe Photoshop. And I wrote some mentioning of purpose of the invitation and place and time that party will occur. I saved the file as JEPG so I will able to upload it to my blog.