Poster
Written Statement:
With this
assignment, with all the work and time I lost to have it done, I want to
transmit hardly to people that violence is a tragic thing. It’s terrible when
someone is violated, especially women by their intimate partners. They get psychological
problems and scared to go anywhere, do or say something. Violence just changes
their lives.
Therefore, first,
as Ms. Silverman asked to do, I searched about this topic and tried to find
some important and less unknown facts. I looked in various sites and some of
them didn't have the clear information I wanted and needed, so I asked for
help, and then with a different but better vocabulary, I found some interesting
information. I did a Word Document and worked on it, trying to put more
attractive information.
Then, I wrote a
statement saying what I think about this topic and what are my intent and my
message to stop making this act happening, to make people think.
After, I did the
brainstorming part. I had lots of ideas that I sketched and lots of slogans,
ones more important than others. I also found some good pictures that I thought
would make my poster good enough to transmit my message. I did my own
definition about this topic too, but some of the words I took from another
place because I thought they were important and attracted the attention of
people to know better, and in a simple way, what violence is.
My next step was
the thumbnails. With the brainstorming that was on my head, I drew some posters
with a picture that had significance, and a slogan that had some important information.
However, at first I didn’t have enough important information in them, but I
found something later.
Therefore, with all
this process, my roughs and analyze, I presented my first ideas to the class to
get some more guide to know exactly what to do.
Then, with my best
three thumbnails, I started to make a poster on the computer with the program
Adobe Photoshop. I just chose one idea, one image and one powerful slogan. This
poster had to attract attention and have information with power and that was
quite new and interesting to others. So, I preferred to use Photoshop instead
of Illustrator because I think it has more useful, interesting and nice tools.
It is more magical than Illustrator. I used an image with a woman crying a
little bit and with a scared face and a man with his hand/arm on her mouth,
because it is a sad and tragic montage that attracts attention when someone
looks. Also, it means that she can’t say a word. He violated her and now nobody
can know about it. She’s just going to continue her life, but with
psychological problems because that act affected her, and if she’s prohibited
of tell anything to no one, it will make her life even harder.
The slogan I chose had important information
and it was small enough to shock people. I thought of some other ideas, like
104 countries across the world have outlawed marital rape, but this idea is a
positive and a good thing, and I wanted something terrible that could attract
people. I wanted something to focus on at the first glance, so I decided to
write that 15 Latin American countries allowed rapists to avoid prison by
marrying their victims, because this is crazy. It shouldn't be happening.
Also, my poster had
to follow a lot of points to be good enough to transmit the message. The
colours I used were red and blue because they are strong tones that attract
people to read it. The unity is important here too, because I tried to create
one thing with all those things together, to make a message with some sense.
Emphasis, typography and rhythm make the poster bright and with power showing a
clear message. Contrast and balance are also shown. All of this makes the
poster look kind of mysterious.
I liked to do this
assignment. It was a long one that required a lot of work, but I learned some
more important information about this topic that I didn't know. Also, I had fun
while doing the poster.