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Project 2 – Exercise 3: Film Posters

Choose a film and its corresponding poster and reflect on how the typography, image, colour and composition are used to reflect the nature of the film. You may want to choose a film you’ve seen or can view some clips from; alternatively, you could start from the poster and then research around the film. How has the aesthetic of the moving image influenced the design of the poster?

I thought this poster for the documentary film ‘Terms and Conditions May Apply’ really stood out.

Without knowing a thing about this film, I recognised the typography as being the typefaces and … Read the rest

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Project 2: Exercise 1- Mixed Messages

 

• What kind of messages are the statements below sending? Describe what is being communicated through the combination of what they say and the visual feel of the typography.

As discussed in the course, typography conveys its messages via both the actual words presented and the way those words are presented.

1. In this first example, the literal message suggests that you have arrived somewhere. My first thought was the obvious one – a hotel or other place where you’d stay the night. It could also be somewhere you’d stay for a more than a few minutes like a … Read the rest