Production and Critique

 I began to produce the posters by using my photographs and the photoshop filter Torn Edges. I really liked the effect this gave and how it made the image look bold and eye catching. I knew that I wanted a slogan on the poster that put across a strong message.
I added 'Syrian Refugees Welcome' as I thought it was straight to the point and bold. I then added 'All Children Deserve A Safe Home' as that is an issue with the refugees at the moment, fleeing from there homes due to danger and not having anywhere to go. My initial poster ideas is that I wanted the colours to relate to Britain including red and navy blue but I also wanted the image to be bold. I also wanted to use bold and easy to read fonts. My second idea was to use a layering effect to show the person underneath the Niqab as in my research I saw that people felt uncomfortable not knowing who was behind the scarf and the idea behind the poster was to show that it is just a child who needs our help.

I had a group critique where I showed the posters that I had done and the photographs I had took to create them. I wrote down my essay question, what my essay was about and what my idea for my practical work was. I wrote about how I wish to use screen print as the printing method as it would work well for mass production. I also asked some questions such as,

• What colours could I use to screen print?
• Can you tell the image is a child?
• Would it be better to work digitally with photography?
• Should I create a more hard hittingg slogan or keep it simple so people focus on the image?

I got a lot of feedback such as,

• The poster that shows the girl behind is more powerful
• Really nice idea to address both the issue of immigration and of muslim headwear.
• Id avoid the colour red as there can be negative connotations
• Black and white gives a very serious feel.
• Black, white and red makes me think of blood which is obviously not what you want, try more positive colours
• I like how it shows that refugees are people that have their own rights.
• Maybe try use green for syria
• I thought the girl looks in her 20s not a child
• The girl looks a lot older
• looks more like a young women
• I think screen printing is a good style to use
• A screen print will look a lot more effective then a digitally rendered image.
• you could consider illustration
• screen print with a opaque overlay to achieve style.
• Im not sure if the 'Syrian Refugees Welcome' is needed
• The slogan is needed to understand the image

I will use this feedback to further adapt my posters.