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Making my poster: 4

{ March 3, 2011 @ 3:01 pm } · { A2 Work, Poster Planning }
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I have now added the main text ‘Welcome To The Playhouse’ to the poster. I am really pleased with the way it looks:

I am now beginning to add the tagline (‘You can run… But you can’t hide’). Although the unusual font works very well with the main heading, I want a plainer font for the tagline. I am also trying to decide how the text should be placed (as I have split it into two textboxes). The options are shown in screenshots below:

1. I like this version because of the uneven text. However, seeing it as a thumbnail it doesn’t look as professional or asthetically pleasing.

2. This version has both textboxes centralised in the space, and the upper line is not as close to the girl, which made everything look cramped in. However, I will bring the upper line down, so it is not as closed in to the hand. I now prefer this version, but I still need to edit the positioning some more to make better use of the space.

3. and 4. Two more edits to the text positioning. I am much happier with no.4 – I found minimising the poster so it was a thumbnail helped me to focus on just the positioning.

Here’s a better picture of the poster so far:

The last step it to add the ‘Coming Soon’ on the bottom of the poster. For this, I have used the font ‘Aldine401 BT’ – I wanted the text to be in capitals, and with fairly wide spacing between the letters so that the font can fill the space horizontally without having to be too large or tall. It also looks more serious and professional than the fonts for the other pieces of text, as its function is giving information, not drawing in an audience.

Here it is with the ‘Coming Soon’ – the final version:

Making my Poster

{ February 8, 2011 @ 3:00 pm } · { A2 Work, Poster Construction, Poster Planning }
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I have taken some shots for my poster, as seen below.

They were taken in front of a blank wall, as it gave the impression of lonliness. After experimenting briefly with the invert tool, I found it had a disturbed look to the pictures.

The lighting gave the impression of streaks along the walls – on the original pictures, this is most noticeable when seen as thumbnails, and less noticeable when viewed at full size. However, the inverting of the pictures has made the streaks stand out more, which is what I hoped to achieve when experimenting. Another new effect of the inverting is that the girl’s shadow stands out more, and looks creepy, like there is something stood behind her, possibly stalking her.

The streaks and shadows give the pictures an eerie, distorted feel, connoting the supernatural. The inverting effect turns the girl’s body blue and white – blue suggests coldness and death; whereas white suggests ghostliness and purity. The ‘white’ shirt now becomes a black ring around her neck, suggesting that she is restricted. However, in picture no.952 the girl has her head bowed, which means we cannot see the black shirt. On the other hand, in the other pictures the unusual face seems to de-humanise her, so in the picture where her face is hidden, she remains an innocent human victim that the audience can sympathise with.

Picture no.952 also had a piece of a stair-rail in the bottom-left corner of the picture; this has now been removed using the clone tool.