Screen Capture Activity 2

Analaysis
“California Love” by Tupac Shakur is a song where the artist is giving credit to his city, a “shout out” if you will; Tupac is showing love for his home state. It is a song about being prideful of your homeland and not forgetting where you are from. I also see it is as a form of bragging; announcing to everyone else that you are from a better state. Also Tupac was an icon is the classic East vs. West gang wars. So during this rap he is glorifying the Westside and even rips on the East by saying “Let’s show these fools how we do this on that Westside.”
For my design I chose to take the song lyrics and split them into columns attempting to form a big city background with skyscrapers and such. I did this because in his rap, Tupac mentions many big cities: L.A., Compton, Hollywood, etc. Then the choice of “Big City” as my font is self explanatory. The font reminds me of Gotham City or some other famous city. Then I took the phrase “We in the sunshine state” and made a circle above the skyscrapers representing the sun to show it is the sunshine state. The font I chose for that was an orange colored “Juice ITC” because the letters themselves reminded me of rays of sunlight. During the song there is a verse which states “Shake it” repetitively, I chose a font called “Ravie,” because in my opinion the letters themselves looked as if they were shaking. Then I chose a shade of pink because it fits the party mood where someone would be most liable to “shake it.” Then for the “California Love” part of the song I chose a red-colored font named “Lovelett,” which has little hearts embedded in the letters. Obviously I chose this because red is the color of love and the hearts directly represent the love for California.