Digitally Creating Posters

Today I continued working on a few posters, which I started a few days ago. The two ideas I am working on are based on my most recent 'Identity Ideation' (this ideation can be seen in my physical workbook). I have been working on developing one which is looking at the similarities between the New Zealand and Australia flag, although I don't think this idea is anywhere near as strong as my other poster, which is looking at getting freedom ditching the Union Jack. I have attached each of these below, with some annotations. These will also be visible in my physical workbook, with some annotations and feedback alongside the print outs:

The above idea is looking at how New Zealand and Australia are so frequently confused. I have used aboriginal patterns, along with a kiwi, creating a bit of tension between the aboriginal and maori backgrounds of each country. The tagline needs refining, and I'll it would probably be better suited to saying "This isn't my identity" or something along those lines. One of the problems with this concept is that people might not recognise that they're aboriginal patterns, so the message might not come across as effectively and successfully as I was hoping. The whole poster is quite central, especially in terms of vertical placement, so if I were to develop this idea I would look to play around with the composition, and various other FADPs such as scale and contrast.

The above poster is my favourite so far, which features a kiwi being trapped inside of a dogs mouth. There are a few ideas I have to further improve and refine this already, although I will wait and get some feedback from the teachers and/or the class as well over the next few days. The dog needs to change slightly, in order to look more like a British Bulldog, while the Kiwi should probably show some sign of life since the tagline says "Help set me free". The generic dog was more just used as a bit of a placeholder to see if the idea would be as effective as I had envisaged. I used quite a bold vector style in order to keep a nice simple, clean style to the poster, and have tried using scale to my advantage, by making the dog big, scary and dominant, looking to appeal to the emotions of the audience (Pathos as the rhetoric).