Lyrical Collage

To begin this collage, I researched into various different quotes from a variety of songs, poems, and movies.  One of my favorite movies growing up has always been Peter Pan.  From both the book- written by J.M. Barrie- and the disney movie both have quotes that stick in my mind.  One in particular, and that I chose to make the focal point of my lyrical collage goes as follows: 'You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming?  That's where I will always love you.  That's where I'll be waiting."

To begin this project, I chose a galaxy/sky image, but it wasn't quite how I wanted it so I flipped it upside down and cropped the watermark out.

I wanted to make it appear as though they were flying across the sky, above the clouds.  I, therefore, used a city image, layered it under the clouds and lowered the opacity of the sky.  The city lights twinkled through the clouds.  I then deleted parts of the sky and left some of the clouds blocking out the city below.

Next, I wanted to create the divide between Neverland and real life.  I collected an image of the moon, but it was to reflect on water.  This was meant to be the water that is prominent in the story of Peter Pan, e.g. the still river they glide over whilst flying, the ocean surrounding the islands of Neverland on which the pirate ship floats, and the mermaid lagoon.

This wasn't the texture I wanted the moon to have, so I layered another one underneath it.  I messed around with various tools, such as the opacity and eraser tool to get seamless layering.

I then added Peter Pan and co. flying.  I used an image of there silhouettes on a white background.  I used the quick selection tool to separate the shadows from the background and moved them slightly to the left.  I changed the opacity, and then the opacity of the eraser and surrounded the whole in the background, creating a shadow effect on the clouds below, shadowing them flying.

Next was Tinker bell, for which I repeated this process.  I positioned her to be sprinkling fairy dust on the word "dreaming" as I felt it was fitting.

I then typed pup various different sections to create the quote, editing each text box to entertain it in the picture, e.g. curving around the moon and shadows.  On each of these, I edited the colors and opacity of the writing.  My aim was to make it appear subtly, so you have to look for it to see it.

In the word love I used to images, brought them away from their backgrounds, skewed them and layered them, once again, editing the opacity.  I then merged the layers and included them in the word "love."

My finished lyrical collage (not really lyrical, but a quote) turned out like this: