{"id":10679,"date":"2013-05-30T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=10679"},"modified":"2013-05-30T10:56:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T14:56:30","slug":"i-can-read-series-time-enough-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2013\/05\/30\/i-can-read-series-time-enough-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can Read Series: Time Enough at Last"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Mr. Bemis is Sad” book cover by aforgrave, based on “Time Enough at Last”<\/p><\/div>\n

The Inspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n

@cogdog<\/a> (Alan Levine) inspired me this morning with his I Can Read Series: Eye of the Beholder<\/a> children’s book cover, and upon quick reflection, it seemed to be a just perfect<\/em> assignment to do for poor Henry Bemis<\/strong> in Time Enough at Last<\/a>. The labelling of this book as a shared reading<\/em> book makes it all the more poignant for poor, all-on-his-lonesome Henry.<\/p>\n

The Process<\/strong><\/p>\n

I gathered my I Can Read series<\/em> banner from a basically white-covered book Pete the Cat<\/a>, which made it easier to isolate the banner using the Magic Wand Tool<\/span> and there by erase the rest of the cover using the Eraser tool<\/span>. In the end, I removed the existing drop shadow from the banner (also using the same process) as it was somewhat pixel-ly and distracting.<\/p>\n

I toyed around with a few different fonts for the title, before settling on a simple, kid-friendly \u00a0sans-serif\u00a0Trebuchet MS<\/strong> at 47 pt for the title and 11 pt for the “authors.” \u00a0 I just eyeballed the font sizes with the slider to get something that seemed to look good.<\/p>\n

Although I had originally planned on using an image of Burgess Meredith<\/a> with the broken glasses, it was bit too difficult to get a tall enough book-propotioned crop that also showed books in the background, and so I moved ahead a number of frames to where the camera pulled back and it was easier to select a more vertical image.<\/p>\n

I considered titles like “Henry Bemis,” “Poor Mr. Bemis,” before deciding that for a children’s book (and especially a shared reading book!) there needed to be a very clear connection between the topic of the book (the man is sad) and the title, hence “Mr. Bemis is Sad.”<\/p>\n

The why<\/em> of his sadness is our inside joke, as viewers of the episode. And including the book in the \u00a0I Can Read series<\/em> is just the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

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Submitted, for your consideration, as a candidate for Design Assignment 55: I Can Read Movies<\/a> (where an episode, is like a movie, in The Twilight Zone ….)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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