Posters: The good, The Bad, and The Ugly! Part 1

Posters: The good, The Bad, and The Ugly! Part 1

1. This has to be the best photo of them all hands down. This a poster for the "Dark Knight Rises" film, the final batman movie in the trilogy. For those who are familiar with the batman franchise, you would know that batman has a dark and mysterious persona. The background colors give off that visual effect with the use of dark colors such as black and gray, as well as creating a sort of rainy thunderstorm effect on the poster. Batman is seen dressed in all black and his eyes are hidden as he stands in the rain. At the top of the poster, you can see the word "RISE" in an all grey color, continuing the color scheme of black and grey throughout the photo. The letters are also spaced out at a good distance to really give meaning to word, as it symbolizes the name of the film "Dark Knight Rises." Besides the use of colors, the fonts look pretty plain and simple, there are no fancy designs at all. Not that it is a bad thing, sometimes less is more, and the creators of the poster did a good job getting their visual message across to the public.

                                                     

2. Here we have a very bright and colorful picture of the Jonas Brothers that will catch anyone's attention. This picture may be a better representation of the use of color scheme compared to the batman poster above. The use of the colors pink, blue, and purple all throughout the poster connects all the visuals together through this scheme. Look at the way that the words "Jonas Brothers" are displayed on the bottom. It is in some sort of live concert looking, bright lights looking font that matches perfectly with the visuals of the Jonas Brothers performing live here in front of a crowd. Below this are the words "The 3D Concert Experience." Simply genius how the creators took that sentence and added what appears to be a 3D looking font to give it more meaning than it already has. Small little noticeable things like this makes the Jonas Brothers in the poster look like stars! The Walt Disney can also be seen in a smaller logo font above the Jonas Brothers name in pink, keeping the color scheme going. It is written in Disney's signature script font. What is questionable is to why are 3 men covered in pink, and purple?

3. I must be a batman fan because here is another photo of the bat in the "Dark Knight Rises." What separates this photo from the previous one above is the there are more colors involved besides black and grey, which gave off an ominous effect. In this photo there are several visuals that the creator used that shows signs of hope and justice. For example, the famous bat symbol is covered in bright orange flames and is engraved on the front of the burning building. Batman, who is standing in front of the burning building is still covered in black and surrounded by mist and burning ashes.The smoke is covered throughout the picture blue and grey. Although the color schemes throughout the poster does not match, it does tell a story of a hero providing justice to it's city, which is unique in it's own to grab peoples attention. The tile "Dark Knight" is written in a small white and plain font, but what is intriguing about that is the strategic placement of the name right across the bat symbol. At the top of the page the words "Welcome to a World Without Rules" blend sin with the smoke.

Posters: The good, The Bad, and The Ugly! Part 2

1. There are some good posters, and then there can be some really bad ones. The next three posters that you are about to see lack certain elements of a well designed poster such as maybe design hierarchy, font choice, use of images and colors, etc... Here we have a poster advertising a musical act called Beach House. Not sure if the creators of the poster thought it was cool to have the word house spelled upside down and backwards, but it really ruined the design hierarchy of the photo. It really throws the viewer off, as they have to use a few seconds of their time to try and figure out what the other word on the bottom of the page may be. Eventually they'll get it, but it just adds confusion to the viewer. The color scheme on the words look very sloppy. The use of pink and black on "Beach House" look over did and the creator tried to do too much on it instead of keeping it simple. What really got me going was the choice of font that the designer used. It looks old and worn down. The event details are also written too small on the paper.

2. I know that Professor Pabico told us not to use the word "Interesting" for this assignment, but this poster right here is very very interesting, and the use of that word is meant to put this poster in the negative spotlight. Look at the design that just jumps out right at you! You have a QR code right in the middle of the photo! Very creative yes, but aesthetically pleasing and easy on the eyes, no. The QR code bar looks like an optical illusion and your eyes could get lost in it, might even cause a headache. Inside the QR bar is a woman's face that you can barely see or make out because it is covered by the giant QR Code! Now whether the QR bar has symbolic meaning to the movie, one thing for sure is that from an outside view, it is not attractive to look at in the slightest. Besides the QR bar, that seems to be the only use of images. The rest is just a blank white background with movie details written in a a small plain black font. There could definitely be some more color to this poster to bring it to life.

3. Last but not least, we have this weird psychedelic rock poster that could use a serious tune up in the graphic design department. First and foremost, what immediately jumps out right at you is the fact that the poster is green and looks as though it was made on some old construction paper. The next biggest problem that I have with this poster is that the proximity of all the images and words are TOO DARN CLOSE! I've never seen such a clutter in my life on a poster. Every image on this sheet seems to be kinda doing it's own thing. There's no unity whatsoever. Not only that but the font isn't in sync either. You have a sloppy crooked bold faced font at the top left of the page, meanwhile there is words written all throughout the poster in all different fonts and styles. Images are being overlapped by other images and it just looks like a mess. Now i can understand what the designer was looking for when he made this. He was appealing to the genre and culture of psychedelic rock music. Regardless, certain rules could and should have been followed to promote this concert in a better way.