Cutting the Suspense

Cutting the Suspense is the name of a comic I created using my words "cut" and "suspend". At first I was clueless about what to do, but I realized I could use something I receive often in the mail. A package is what I chose and was the perfect thing that could be cut and in a stretched way, suspended. I wanted to incorporate both words into my work but didn't think I could fit suspend into it the way I wanted to and a way that made sense, that's why I decided to stretch the word and come up with "suspense". To me, nothing fit better with the theme of suspense than a comic. Comics are usually slower paced since each individual panel had to be read in order to comprehend the entire thing. So with this in mind, I knew I needed the project to be a Photoshop image. I then went in and documented the receiving, cutting and opening process of the package with my camera. I had about six cutting action pictures, but decided only one was enough to get the point across and not be redundant. After getting this photos, I had to place them in order in the document and then look up how to "comic book-erize" photos in Photoshop since this is not an everyday thing to do in it. I found excellent tutorial on YouTube and used that to help guide me, with slight modifications. After adding all the effects, which include Poster Edges and Color Halftone, I added a text box with a texture and added a stroke (outline) to every image and the text boxes. The text I found online from Dafont.com and is called Badaboom BB, it fit perfectly for my needs. 

I don't think my project turned out at all like most other projects will, since looking back, most people will probably do more to their actual objects, unlike my approach, which was to create a story of sorts and make the presentation more artistic. I am still happy with the outcome, and the open to interpretation idea of this project left me to experiment with something I can say I have never attempted before, and that's creating a story with few words  on an everyday object and make it look good while doing it.