For this project we were given the theme of Protest and Propaganda. I personally love subjects which you can go down different aspects of the theme, and this was definitely one of them. I personally went down the route of sexual assault/abuse/rape. I went down this avenue as it is something very close to my heart with many people that I know and myself having either been sexually assaulted/abused/raped.
When I was researching about the topic and current posters that have been used, I found that there wasn’t much on the topic. There were no pictures, it was pretty much just text and statistics. So therefore, I looked to current photographers which took portraits of people like Yousuf Karsh and George Hurrell, however they both were black and white portrait photographers, so therefore I wanted to use their methods, but add colour into the photographs. Now looking at the overall topic of colour theory, I actually never really thought about colour until it came to putting the photos and the text together. Then I was a bit freaked out because I hadn’t thought about the colour aspect. But after looking closely at the images I soon realised that I could make different colour schemes from the brief for example, monochromatic and harmonious colour schemes. Looking back at the project I should have done more research about the topic specifically and really look into different portrait photographers as this would have benefited my work greatly when actually piecing my work together. An opportunity which came up was doing posters based on completely different themes, I feel like this may have expanded my knowledge when doing my research, forcing me to broaden my horizon. However, I did find that due to personal circumstances that was going on at home. There wasn’t enough time for me to complete the project to the standard that I had wished for it to be. But, regardless, I am proud of the work that I have completed. My work changed completely through the project, initially I wanted to do three completely different ideas, but I stuck to the one because I thought that I would be able to perfect the one idea to an excellent standard. I had went from some more light-hearted material to I guess you would say more hard hitting imagery. I would say that I learnt that I needed to plan out my time to get everything done on time to an excellent standard. However, I actually learnt how to create a silhouette of a person as this was something that I had never done before, apart from when in a sunny landscape. I loved, being able to use photoshop for a different route as normally I would only use photoshop to edit my images, when I actually used photoshop this time for editing the photos, adding text, logos and really perfecting my final posters. When we did a group critique within the classroom, some things had been mentioned in relation to my posters with the first points for the silhouette poster being that the text is too far apart, change the text to a slightly grey colour, add a drop shadow and potentially change the font. I actually will 100% agree with these statements and this is something that I would not have noticed on my own back. The next points are for the “Don’t be BLIND to the signs of sexual abuse” poster, my peers stated that the “BLIND” should be in a different colour to allow the message to really come out of the poster. They also said that I should change the opacity for “HELP ME!” as then the help me would look more like the young child had written it himself. In addition, they mentioned the font again with it being an issue for the main text. They did not think that the font was the correct font for the subject. However, I disagree with this statement as I loved the font how it was. The last points were for the “After my dad sexually assaulted me I wish I was DEAD.” There was two points which came up with this poster with the one point being that the Samaritans in the bottom left should not be the logo but more like a #Samaritans, to allow the harmonious colour scheme to occur. The final point was about the grammar, but I still do not agree with the point. They said that the statement should be either “When my dad sexually assaulted me, I wished I was DEAD.” Or for the statement to be “After my dad sexually assaulted me, I wished I was DEAD.”. I still don’t agree with this but some things you can never agree on. Whilst creating the posters, I had to bear in mind the regulations set out by the Advertising Standards Authority. Below is a button to the ASA.
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