Assignment 6

This was the poster me and my partner decides to choose as an example for bad poster.

It was visually bad with the main problem lies in the layout of the poster. There was a sudden break in flow of viewing the poster due adding the title and cast names at the right of the poster. The flow of the viewing tends to be quite messy due to it. There are also too many objects in the backgrounds, telling different story in each of the background. In short it is more of information overflowing. The inlcuding of the title part is really qutie an eyesore as it does not fits into the poster due to having a different color scheme. It is really quite ugly to have it there.

The reason I have chosen this poster as the example for being a good poster is not only because if fufils many of the principles but also because it give me the feeling that there are some intense war or struggle between the good and evil. I felt so mainly because of the 2 robots staring at each other and also with the light of the background town image giving me a feeling of some intense emtion between them.

As the robots are "closer" to the auidence they have more details in them which make them stands out from the background city. The overall theme of the poster also tries to remain constant by painting eveything with metallic color or similiar colors. The closure of the robots is also quite good as only part of the head of the robot is being shown but from the picture I get the feeling that they are very big, so I can sort of imagine the rest of their body even without being actually present. The ends of the town is also covered by the robot, but I know that it is a very big city behind it. Looking at the picture I will understand the story line of the movie quite well at a look. This is because of this feeling created, thus I know that there will be some form of war going on. But not a story of 2 robots and humans living happily every after. Since black covers more than 50% of the picture, I was able to focus on the main objects in the picture. Black is a good choice of color as using white will try to steal the attention of the viewer from the main object as black blends in well with the general tone of the metallic and dull coloring of the objects. White will be too striking. Since the picture is viewed from left to right just like reading books so I also feel that it makes seeing the poster easier as there are some posters that wants the reader to read some other way..

Although the main objects in the picture is not being placed at 1/3 of anything to follow the golden ratio, but the feeling of the giangatic robot would not have been there if the robot's head is being push in further towards the center of the picture as it will expose the whole of the head. Visually speaking, it will also be not as pleasent. And the objects are being placed in a not balanced manner with main focus on the upper half of the picture. But I find it more visually pleasent to be focusing the picture on the upper half of the poster instead of having something in everywhere in order to be "balanced" in the poster. It shows that it is not neccessary the poster that have fufiled the most principle is the best poster. Some principles can be neglected as it might not eb appropriate to apply it sometimes. Blindly following all the principles is always not so good.

In the tutorial there was someone presenting "The god father" movie poster. Although it fufil many of the visual principle but it was not visually pleasent to me as compared to the transformer poster. It was due tothe very dull color choosen to suits the mood of the poster, but some how I find that it lacks the element of attracting attention to get me to watch the movie. A good movie poster is one that attracts and convince the viewer to watch the movie rather than the one that fufil the most principle. Principles are just there to guide the designer along some path, blindly following might not give good results.