Photographing a word:

How do you photograph a word? If someone asked you to photograph a particular word how would you do this?
Our tutor John gave us a list of words, FLIGHT, TEDIOUS, LOUD, SUCCESSFUL, THINK, AGGRESSIVE and JOY.
I was paired up with my classmate Jon and we chose the words FLIGHT and THINK.
I have attached our shoot plan.
After assessing and evaluating what equipment we had and the location we had access to we decided on FLIGHT as being our chosen word. This decision was made as we found it was possible to achieve the FLIGHT shoot plan and would be at no extra cost whereas the THINK shoot involved buying props such as a lightbulb.
Jon volunteered to be the model, our idea was for him to jump off a wall and for me to capture this on camera mid flight.
To create more height I got on the floor and shot up, enabling me to capture more of the sky as his backdrop thus giving the impression that he is flying.
It only took three shots to achieve and after cropping and skewing on Photoshop to create a tilt shift affect.
Below is the final image and the original without edits.
I think with the short amount of time given and lack.of.resources we achieved the task as I feel this images represents our chosen word.
If we had the opportunity to do it again I would choose JOY. With a full framed portrait shot of model smiling wide, ensuring there face was filling the frame.
Below is my attempt at this:

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Edited with Photoshop cs3 

Achieved by selecting image of John with magic wand, refining the edge with a 2 pixel feather, still selected I went to the Select tab, selected Modify and Contract, I contracted the selected area by 2 pixels, this removed the last lot of white edging around the subject.

I then dragged the refined area onto a high res image of a b;ue sky. I then added a fill layer (linear light) of a light blue colour and reduced the opacity to suit (31%). I then flattened the image to finish.

Not perfect but with the short amount of time I had I was pretty happy with the final image.