I feel the final words of my poster in the corner really show my stance on media posts. However, I still believe it is not clear enough about what issue I am arguing for. I chose to use black and white colors because I think black represents the dark and bad sides of media, while white represents the light and truthful side of media. I tried to make the font like a newspaper font to represent news titles and other subtitles.
My thumbnail sketches really gave me many ideas but apparently they did not show my stance well. The sketches gave me ideas and really helped me think of headlines and how to get the viewer's attention. My final poster turned out to be really different from my thumbnail sketches because I had a hard time remaking my thumbnail sketches on Illustrator. But, I am still happy with my final poster.
In the first version, I had two floating heads and Ms. Lee gave me advice to put them into a shape like some kind of profile picture type of thing. After making that change, the two heads did not look too out of place and random. Also in my first version, I could not decide on a background and split the page into two random colors. After going with the classic black and white backgrounds, I felt my poster looked neater.
If I had to choose one, I would choose the Skill and Techniques column on the rubric as my strongest. I used a variety of techniques like Envelope Distort, Pen Tool, Gradient, etc. But I still think I could have added more techniques to make my poster look more interesting and eye-catching. I would say both my Concept and Design are on the weaker side but I would choose Concept as my weakest because my stance may not be too clear to others and the whole poster may seem confusing.
Thinking of a way to appeal to viewers really made the poster project challenging. The poster had to express a message quickly and concisely. If the poster was too boring, then no one would look at the poster and notice the issue. Also if the stance was not expressed clearly, then viewers would have a hard time understanding the poster.
The techniques were not too difficult but I think finding the right tool to use took more time. My poster was simple and did not require too many techniques and so I used a few of the same tools a few times.
