Thursday, 12 December 2013

New version of Poster

I had previously made this for my newspaper poster products and once I had finished it I haven't been very happy with it as it was very cluttered in layout, not what a poster should look like as it resmebled a flyer more than a poster. I then looked onto the internet and my research poster images that I have found.   



I then found the Guardian's newspaper poster and so took the inspiration from the layout and style of the poster, a element that I liked about the poster was the fact it wasn't cluttered. 

I decided to add my own stamp onto the poster and so added three curvy pieces of text, your positive paper, as this is the tagline that I have chosen for my product because my product is all about telling people about happy and positive news in the local area. I went onto the internet and found a happy quote that reflected the theme of my product 'Open your eyes and notice the beauty in this wonderful world', but I am only creating a local product and so decided to change the quote slightly by changing the word world to area. Another quote I have used for this poster was 'a breath of fresh air' that I have thought of to describe my product something I would hope a newspaper critic would say about my product, I have also used this quote in my previous poster. I have put the masthead i this poster near to the bottom for this poster and have also added a drop shadow to the image to make the border lines around the image less noticeable.
 <----Drop shadow screen shot
I wanted to have the same layout of the website replicating in the poster and so decided to add strips of a yellow and grey box to divide the top of the poster and the linked pages at the bottom and by adding this strip there was a space to add a price for the newspaper.

I thought that this yellow and grey strip was too closed off, too structured and too much on the  poster and so decided to get rid of it. I then moved the text around so that the linked pages were together and then I moved the publishing image and name over to the left as I want this to be a bigger and more noticable feature as I want people to also recognise the publisher. I needed to add a price element to the poster and as I have order the text so that there is more pieces of text inside of the tag line and so decided to move the tagline slightly to the right to fit in the extra piece of text and I wanted the text to follow the style of the other text on the poster and so used the same colour style from the positive tagline. I also add a lighter grey to the masthead by using the Paint Bucket Tool and changed all the little pieces of the dark grey to the light grey and the reason I have done this is because with the dark grey it stood out too much and although I want the masthead to stand out I want the rest of the content to be noticeable also, and so used a grey colour to match the lightness of the poster. I have also kept the drop shadow on the image however I have changed the shadow so it is a lot lighter shade in colour, again so that it keeps to the style of the poster - light, happy and young friendly.

<---Drop shadow screen shot









I have now decided to make the poster a little more simple as I felt that it was a little too cluttered and so I have got rid of the old masthead and have in its place wrote Sunny Side and Your Positive Paper and I have used Times new roman font for this text. I have got rid of the quotes and have moved the price on the right hand side in-between positive and paper. I have also moved the extra information so that there is a strip of information rather than a box like structure of information and I have also resized the information so that the masthead and the graphics are the main focus of the newspaper however the extra information still needs to be there to advertise the product however I don't want it to be the main focus and that is why I have moved and resized it.

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