Colour Schemes

These colour palettes are from various posters in my research. The top colour scheme is from the poster I am basing my own on, so I will mainly be using this for my own posters so it looks as authentic as possible. I also want to use a red colour on my poster, so I will take the colour from the second palette as it is still from a 20th century propaganda poster and would fit in with my own poster.

Proposal

From the four ideas I made, I decided to choose this as my final idea. This is because I have the most visual ideas for this poster, and the feedback from my class crit also backs this statement up as most people thought this was a good idea.
For this poster, I shall make it themes around the website Myspace, and as such I shall use themes that are commonly associated with the style of that site, as well as keeping the poster traditional looking. As Myspace is music/band oriented, I think that adding musical themes such as notes and a set of speakers would be fitting. I also think that putting the Myspace logo in the background would make it easier to identify as a Myspace poster.

Sketches

After brainstorming possible ideas, I then went on to make basic sketches for different poster ideas. These were all initial sketches, so the ideas do not link together much.

 My first sketch is a recruitment poster for Twitter, which uses a RAF poster. I thought this poster would be suitable as it set in the sky and the planes could easily changed into the Twitter logo, which is a bird.

My second idea was for a specialist recruitment poster for the site Myspace. I thought this would be a good idea as Myspace is declining in popularity and would need specialist recruitment to get members, and the original image could be changed to show the stereotypes of the site, such as the poster having a music oriented theme.

Following on from the Myspace/Facebook idea, the original poster shows how Britain strengthened within the war. This could easily be changed to be Myspace and Facebook throughout the years. Even though I thought this would be a good idea for my poster, I could not think of any way of showing it visually.

My final idea is from a security concern poster. It uses the theme of talking less so your information isn't over heard, and uses the Web 2.0 community of Anonymous to show this idea. I thought these two ideas would go together as Anonymous is notorious for hacking, which could happen if you aren't careful on the Internet.

Brainstorms

From my research, I then made brainstorms to condense my findings to get ideas for my posters.

This brainstorm was from the specialist recruitment posters I gathered. These were the main points from the posters that I could get, and from this brainstorm I came up with some ideas for my posters. These include using women as the focus for my poster as some sites have more of a male userbase so it would be relevant for Web 2.0.

This brainstorm was from my posters focused on maintaining morale. Again, I looked at the main themes of the posters for my brainstorms.

My last brainstorm was for the slogans for the posters about security problems. I looked at the slogans rather than the themes of the posters because almost all of the posters conveyed the same message. By looking at slogans, I could get ideas for my own poster.

Mood Boards/Research

After researching what propaganda was, I looked into specific types of propaganda poster, which was from Britain in World War 2. From my research, I split the posters I found into categories of what message they were trying to convey.

These posters are all specialist recruitment posters. As most men were already in the army, many of these posters are targeted at women. There are also posters for RAF recruitment and looking for help in local communities. Examples of community help is the "Help Scotland's Harvest" poster. All of these posters are made to look positive, as they are meant to get people to join the army, factories, RAF, etc.The women in the recruitment posters all look important, or proud to be at their place of work, which can inspire other women to join these jobs.

I think that this would like well with Web 2.0 posters as social networking sites are always looking for new members, and those sites can be seen in a positive way on these posters.

To keep the morale high in the country, these posters were made. Some were meant to be motivational, such as the post with Winston Churchill and the picture of British countryside. Others are meant to help people carry on with everyday life despite the disruptions. The last few show the alliance between Britain and the colonies.

The posters showing the colonies together would work well for a Web 2.0 poster as they show different groups of people together, like social networking sites.

These posters were made to stop people talking carelessly in public as there may have been people listening. There are were many of these posters as it was important for enemies to not hear information.There were a series of posters for the "Careless Talk Costs Lives" campaign to show the seriousness of security concerns.

This fits in with Web 2.0 as there can be a lot of security problems on the internet, and people carelessly giving away their information. It could also be used to show the Anonymous community in a bad light.

Propaganda

Before starting to find propaganda images, I started by researching what propaganda was so I could get an idea of what to look for.
"Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

"information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/propaganda

 In my own words, propaganda posters use very opinionated and biased messages to sway the public to their views. This can be done in either positive or negative lights, such as posters against certain nations or helping raise morale in times of war.

 These are examples of propaganda posters from the 20th century. The first two are recruitment posters for the army. They use persuasive messages such as pointing at the audience and saying that they want them for the army, implying that they should join. The other poster is more of a morale boosting poster for women, showing their strength. The slogan "We Can Do It!" is saying that women together can make a difference.

Propaganda Poster - Project Brief

"You will produce at least one poster promoting as aspect of Web 2.0 Social Media which can be printed at up to A1 size. 
The design must be based on propaganda posters from a period of the twentieth century.  You will research, collect and analyse examples of propaganda posters then generate ideas which match these to social media services, creating a suitable slogan which links the design to the service being promoted.
You will generate ideas for this project based on research and design development techniques (such as brainstorms, mood boards, sketches) and you will prepare a pitch which puts forward your proposed design solution with a review of how you reached those decisions.  You need to explore type choices, colour palettes, poster designs and layouts in this pitch.  Illustrator work in progress can be shown as part of this.
You will keep a blog of research materials and project development, including research into propaganda posters, placing these into their historical context and analysing their design characteristics, design decisions, problem solving, software techniques, comments on drafts and crit, with notes on changes and improvements made in response to feedback.  "