Bulletin Board: Lord of the Rings Duty Board

This project involved creating a bulletin board in the residence hall that would showcase something useful to the residents. It would stay up for a month.  

The reason behind making the bulletin board is a place to put information as well as it being something decorative on the walls of the hall. 

The inspiration for the bulletin board is The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien. This board matches the door decorations and where am I board I created for that year which were also based on the The Lord of the Ring series: the One Ring and the Arkenstone Playing Card. And it matches The One Ring whiteboard art.

Like the where am I board, I wanted this board to be a section of the travel path that Frodo takes. It is the path from the stairs of Cirith Ungol to Mount Doom. As the RAs "walk" along the "path," the one who is on call, or on duty as we referred to it, is the one by Mount Doom completing the quest. 

This bulletin board uses only printed materials. I planned it by using the measurement of the board and created an InDesign document of the same size. 

Then I laid out the format of the font and pictures in that document. The square around the document represents the bulletin board border.

The photos were taken from original ones that I edited in Photoshop and Illustrator. I wanted them to look cohesive, so I changed them all into vector images. Then I isolated the aspects I wanted to keep and edited them further if needed.

Minas Morgul photo that I edited:

Mordor Mountains photos that I edited:

Mount Doom photo that I edited:

Barad-dûr, The Dark Tower, photos that I edited:

After that, I transferred the font and photos to other pages that were letter-sized to print easily. 

I also created the duty photos with each RA represented by a character.

These are the original photos:

End Result of the Weapons:

Once all the elements were created I put them all together on the board.