Thursday Week 4 and Homework

Visualising two poster concepts:

Before class we had to of printed two A2 poster's ideas and pin them up for a critique. By the end of the class, had to have edited and reprinted them based of the critique's we got.

Poster 1 at the start of the lesson:

Based on the critique/feedback from my peers, I went away and edited my text, changed some alignments, colours and ended up with the poster below. Also blacked out the pocket hankie as it was too distracting.

Poster 1 at the end of the lesson:

This was the result at the end of the lesson, Text is now red to convey hurtful words, and relates to Winston's mouth now, to show it came from his mouth/lips. Also stands out more/easier to read from a distance due to more contrast. The tag quote is underneath the quote to show the relationship between the two texts. Then the real issue text is bigger and in the right hand corner. When critiqued by Matt and Jacquie it was said that I need to crop into the face as there is too much negative/un-active space at the bottom of the poster. Get ride of the stroke around the main copy as it looks tacky. Play with the thresholding to show more detail on Winston's face and play with the positioning of the text so it isn't as close to the mouth as it begins to look like a weird letter. There was also a point said about my posters possibly being too similar, it was agreed after some discussion that as long as when i am developing these ideas i make them more distinguished and push them apart in differences.

Poster 1 for formative assessment on Monday:

Based on the feedback during the end of last class I have developed and refined my ideas to produce this poster. I have cropped and zoomed into the face to focus the attention on the facial features, played with the thresholding detail and colours. Also re-did all the text in illustrator and repositioned the text based on the new composition. Will see what feedback I get during Mondays assessment class.

Poster 2 at the start of the lesson:

This was the first iteration printed and pinned up before the start of the lesson, after some peer feedback I went away and made a few changes which led to the poster below.


Poster 2 at the end of the lesson:

With this development I moved Winston Peter down as there was too much negative space down the bottom, got ride of the Winston Peters info text and just hand drew it with an arrow pointing at him. I emphasised the stitches on the lips so they stand out more, and i blew up the "Racism is no joke" as it was the important message I want to convey. After some feedback from Matt and Jackie it was discussed that I need to digitalise the text and a good way of doing that would be with tracing paper, have a less busy text background by getting ride of some of the "hahahahahaha" and possibly even move Winston Peters down a bit more.

Poster 2 for formative assessment on Monday:

This is the product produced based on the feedback gave on the previous version above. The main difference is I have digitalise the text and made the background a lot less busy so it is easier to follow/read, starting to look a lot more refined. re-did the bottom right copy in illustrator and below is the process and some photos of digitalising the scribbly text. 

Digitalising text process:

Had to print out the new poster layout in A2 format, then do the scribbles I wanted on top of the poster.

Then using two sheets of A3 paper, joined together, I traced over the scribbles, modifying them slightly to make them more suitable to fit. I then scanned them in, onto a USB using the printers as a jpeg file. Opened them in illustrator and converted them to outlines. I then added them on top of my illustrator file and adjusted to fit.