I then went ahead to Photoshop where I edited the photographs individually to make them into blend into a black background to give the pictures a sense mysteriousness and darkness which links to the overall idea of skulls. It also allows the audience to become curious about the work and want to explore it further.

I then picked nine of the several photographs that I picked and edited and started to add the secrets. The typographic style that I went for when writing the secrets was a very simple one in which I tried to relate the secret to the type, so if it was a childish secret, I went for a childish looking type. Through this technique I believe the audience are able to feel a sense of familiarity with the text and also feel as though they are reading the text through the person eyes of even feel as though they are the person.

After creating my series of photographs I played around with the colour of the photographs as I wanted to maybe try it in Meatyard's perspective, where he uses his black and white images to further enhance the sense of depersonalisation.

I also experimented making with the making and editing of some of my other poster designs, such as the two shown below. In order to achieve the certain effects that I wanted on the posters I simply experimented with most of the effects of Photoshop, combining some and adjusting some in order to get my desired look.

The logo that I unintentionally designed and used for the posters served as a slogan as well as the actual logo for this series. I firstly designed the logo to have the word "let" as the biggest word and the other words (your secret out) following in its path, however after discussing it over with my tutors and peers, it seemed as though the statement now because upfront and demanding as if someone is yelling or emphasising the let, which you would not want if you wished to share a secret. Therefore I went back to the drawing board and redesigned it to have the word "out" as the biggest word.

I then went onto making my final poster pieces and I wanted the secrets that I collected from people to be the main focus of my work. So for my first design I wrote all of the secrets I collected in a very small type size and then proceeded to highlight some by changing their colour into red and so from afar it appears as the Arabic skull cut out design. I wanted the audience to somewhat interact with this piece as well and hence the small type size because secrets aren't easy to let out so you have to go close to the piece to read it to get the feeling of someone letting their secret out to you.

My second design was more simplistic with an attachment to my masks aspects of my Transformation project. The mask being on its own in the poster, and not being worn, symbolises that someone has taken off their "shield" and is letting their true self out and so hence the secrets that surround the mask. I specifically used different type faces for each secret as I wanted to let out a sense of personality and attitude through the secret itself, for example a childish secret will have a somewhat playful typeface. 

Although I found making my final poster pieces a little tricky as it was the first time I tried some of the techniques I used.

I believe the black and the red worked well together as I previously said in another blog, the black and red suit well and they portray the topic of secrets very well as the black gives off a sense of mysteriousness while the red links well to the skulls through the idea of death.

As for my secrets "tower" I made it out of a 400mm by 400mm box as I wanted to make it big enough to allow people to put their head into the box and read the secrets that were displayed within. I made four boxes, the bottom being the all white base, while the top three boxes were the ones that contained the secrets. The idea behind it is that you are able to get the feeling of being inside someones head through reading the secrets that are within the box.

I carefully planned the positioning of the secrets as I wanted it to be both friendly for children as well as intriguing for adults and so I separated the secrets into categories. 

The bottom box contains the most appropriate secrets.

The middle box contains the semi appropriate secrets.

While the top box contains the most inappropriate secrets.

The boxes were also positioned on top of each other in a unorganised way but the reason I did this was because since the secrets were the focus point I tried to show that secrets were not a very straight forward thing, they are complex and sometimes messy, just like a humans thoughts, and since I wanted to allow people to feel that they were inside someones head I wanted to therefore give them the full experience even through the positioning of each box.

I received a lot of excellent feedback about my final poster designs as well as my secrets tower and so I am hoping it shall be a big success with my audience as well.