Tuesday 15 June 2010

Chav Advert

My campaign is about 'Scallys. The picture i chose was a image from google. I didn't want to do a serious campaign so i thought by doing scallys would come across as humorous.

This is my final design for my campaign.


I have also designed a hat for the campaign. The programme i used was Photoshop. The icon of the man that is on the hat was from a sign that is in general used for buildings site ‘no unauthorized person allowed beyond this point’. I thought that would be a good image to use for my idea as the man has an angry look on his face and for the hand, I positioned the Fosters logo on his hand to say ‘don’t drink fosters’.


Other poster ideas for my campaign.
For this poster, I decided to make something simple and effective so I used the ‘CHAV’ text and placed it onto a picture of ‘chavs\scally’, that was edited on Photoshop. I don’t really like the background of the poster would I don’t think that the text contrast well.

For this poster, I decided to make something simple and effective so I used the ‘CHAV’ text and placed it onto a picture of ‘chavs\scally’, that was edited on Photoshop. I don’t really like the background of the poster would I don’t think that the text contrast well.

This is another idea I recently came up with for my campaign. The idea for this concept was to make the ‘chav/scally’ sound like that they are some kind of human species that can be found in numerous places. I made the layout of the postcard as if it was a scientific diagram. I truly like this postcard as it highlights the key points and I find it quite funny, which I wasn’t the postcard to be looked at in that view.




Evaluation
Overall, i enjoyed this unit on making the poster. Even though, i struggled on some ideas, i believe i have produce some good icons for my campaign. I like the idea that i chose, which was about ‘Chavs/Scallys’ as i wanted to make the campaign funny and amusing for other people to have the same views as me. If i had to change anything on the campaign, i would of not took as much time on making the poster and would of gone for something more simple and effective to create. But i do like the outcome of the poster and i am pleased with what i have produced.

Sunday 6 June 2010

Information Graphics

I found this graphic image of the world map unique and appealing as i like the way that the world map is made up of rectangles with the majority of them are the same colour. I also like that the countries are all labelled. I think that the map lacks in colour. Instead of having dark colours of grey, it should have a variety of different colours. Even though the map is labelled, it is not fully labelled as the names of the countries do not appear on the image. I find this image easy to understand, as my first impression of the image was the world map. I think that this image would work for an advertisement. For example, the advert for ‘HSBC the world's local bank’ advert, the ending is the world map.

This image is a calendar for June 2010. The first thing i noticed on the image is the promotion of the Fifa 2010 World Cup. I like positions of all the images for the calendar, which has the World cup logo on the top right corner of the calendar, the football boot on the top left corner and the football at the bottom in the right corner. The Apple logo is centred with the South Africa flag as the background. Finally the background of the whole calendar is grass from a football pitch which i think is a excellent idea to have. I think that the positioning of the logo should not have been put there and to me the logo looks petite. I would have printed the logo onto the football on the white sections. Overall, this does promote the World Cup very well.

This image displays information on the world’s largest artificial island and tallest buildings. I think that the image is presented on this image is brilliant. There is lots of information on where the island and buildings are situated. The one object i would change about the information is, the column of writing on the right hand side. I would adjust the background colour and writing instead of using the basic black and white.

This image displays information about aircrafts that fly inside of the North Atlantic organized track system. The information that it shows is the halfway point, position check, getting in line and the safety envelope. It also displays the flight levels. I like the way it shows a zoomed up image of the plane that explains the safety envelope. Underneath the track, it also shows the track when flying over the North Atlantic and information ‘East into the night’. I find the red text highlight colour and the white text makes the subtitles difficult to read and would change the colours of that. In general, the image and the information is really good, easy to read and it is labelled well.

This is a poster from the World Health Organization which explains how the combination of unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene can kill 200 people in an hour. I like the layout of this reminds me of the game ‘operation’ the way certain things are highlighted and pieces can be taken away. The poster also shows shocking information about what countries have safe water, water problems in the Unites States and waterborne diseases. A simple human frame is placed in the centre of the poster, which highlights what poor water can do to the human body. I think is very effective and simple to understand, especially for people who don’t know what it can do. It gives you facts and figures on the layout of this poster which i think is effective cause it will make people stunned and anxious. I dislike the writing and the background as they are similar colours which for me, makes the text hard to read. I also don’t like how the some writing overlaps the centre image and how the bottom right image overlaps a part of the centre image. Overall, this poster is very useful with effective information and helpful images.