Photography for Poster

For the poster we had to use original images, so I got my camera and walked around my village to see if I could find any locations that looked 'derelict' enough and I could use in my poster to add a nuclear explosion! Here are a few unedited photographs I took:

Rough Design

This is my rough design for the poster. I decided I wanted the key focus of the poster to be a nuclear explosion, and for the text to be included into the explosion. I also knew at this stage that I wanted the poster to be a black and white theme, using conventions from the poster research I had conducted previously.

Analysis of 3 posters

After finishing the radio drama, we had to make a poster advertising our drama 'Under the Mushroom Cloud'. I found some adverts for various radio dramas and analysed them to give me an idea of what must be included within an advert.

This is an advert for 'Star Wars - the original radio drama'. The background is very plain and black but reflects the nature of the drama, for example it is set in space. The title text is very bold, extravegant and eye-catching. This was probably done on purpose so that the audience could be captured immediately. The image of the space ship also reflects the context of the radio drama. This can let the audience know the genre straight away. The audience will already know it is a sci-fi radio drama before tuning in.

This is an advert for the popular radio drama 'The Archers'. The background is very plain and is just a landscape, this might reflect to the nature of the plot, but at a quick glance it looks totally unrelated until you read the text. The text suggests it is at a farm which justifies the background. The image is of two main characters and this indicates that the drama is set around them. The title text is also very large which is immediately eye-catching. However, Overall I don't think this advert is successful as it just looks 'thrown-together'.

This is an advert for the hit radio drama 'War of the Worlds'. The genre is horror/sci-fi and I think this advert reflects that and would make the audience very aware of what the drama was about. The image shows alien life, technology and destruction. The title is also very eye-catching and the background is very dark, implying that the plot and content itself is also very dark.

Screenshots

From the editing process on Soundtrack Pro, I took some screenshots to see how my progress developed over a few weeks.