Week 4 - Session Two: Class Critique

The majority of today's class was based doing a class critique of everyone's work. It was really interesting seeing everyone else's approaches to the poster, both stylistically and symbolically. The poster I presented has been attached below, the kiwi/dog poster:

When presenting this poster, I gave a brief explanation of my intentions and how I was trying to deliver a specific message (Ihi), such as why I used this specific stylistic approach, how I used the FADPs to help convey my ideas, and how I have used pathos as a rhetoric in order to appeal directly to the emotions of the audience, in an attempt to draw in the viewers. The class responded with some very valuable feedback that I will take on board as I continue to develop and refine this concept. Some of the feedback is as follows.

- Make the dog look like a stereotypical British Bulldog, which will require a change in colour palette, and add the droopy mouth, slight change in head shape etc.
- Some people struggled to identify that it was a kiwi in the dogs mouth, so I will work on ways to make that more obvious. Such as making the beak open, and making the outside more jagged.
- With the tagline, saying "Help set me free", the kiwi needs to show some sign of life. Possibly show him struggling, with his eye partly open.
- Try playing around with the font choice, to make it seem like the kiwi is saying it.

Some of the class commented how they liked how the poster strongly showed my standpoint (pro changing the flag) without the flag actually being the main focus of my poster. I had some feedback from peers at my table saying they thought it was a really strong poster, and they liked the stylistic approach to it. 

Over the course of the next week, I will continue to work on and develop this poster based on both the class/teacher feedback and my own self-critique, and will try to continue developing ideas for the second poster, which needs to focus on the same issue from the same standpoint, although a different form of rhetoric. By next week, we have been asked to bring two A2 print outs of posters to class.