Poster Assignment

I know we were only supposed to do two posters, but I miss read the assignment at first and originally did the two movie posters. I couldn’t decide which I liked better so I decided to post them both. As for the propaganda posters, when I was brainstorming the second half of the assignment and I came up with both ideas and liked them so I decided to do both. The two themes I chose were the movie posters and the Propaganda posters. I didn’t choose to make a music poster because these had to be for things that didn’t exist and I didn’t want to over think the process of making a poster for music I’ve never heard before, that’s hard enough to do for music you have listened too. Both movies and propaganda are very visual while music is more in your mind. Some compositional techniques I used to catch someone’s attention were to use zigzags, asymmetry, and contrast. The two movie posters I wanted to instill a sense of mystery with the images by either altering the image to either be really washed out and light with a few dark areas to give some details, but not enough. Also by going in the opposite direction and darkening the image so that it is almost a silhouette. The propaganda posters were more of a dark humor. The images themselves are very imposing while the text plays off some recognizable phrases twisting them to mean something very different.