Other Poster Ideas

We had a brief idea that we'd take the Knock Knock that we'd written in sauce and apply it to other barbecue foods, making a set of posters about things like onion, water and bread crusts.

This is where I got the idea for the different words written in food

We didn't end up using this idea but we did take a few test photos of water drops.

Research

While researching today, I found an NZ website called Neighbourly that links neighbours within their neighbourhood. Might be a good place to get inspiration?

https://www.neighbourly.co.nz/

Homework

Tonight's homework was to wire-frame 2 example web sites and one of your choice. To make it an even split and enjoyable Hannah and I took one example each and decided to do one personal one each.

Below are my 2 responses:

Interim Feedback

This is the sheet of feedback we got from our class mates:

Generally the feedback was quite positive, people liked the use of sauce as type and the way we'd presented our concepts. One thing that recurred in the feedback though was that a sinister approach may not encourage the audience to come to the event which we thought was really valid. So we started by elimination the gory concepts with the sauce and tissue (blood + bandage). And we also eliminated the sinister smile one.

Looking at these 4 and the feedback we felt like the "knock knock" approach would be our best poster approach, whereas the others may be able to come into our work in some other media. Our reasoning for this was that the "knock knock" concept had a lot of positive response and wasn't sinister whereas both of the other 2 we were considering were. This was a tough decision though as a lot of people liked the wittiness of the sausage finger idea but it didn't encourage them to come to the event which is our purpose.

So we further narrowed and analysed our "knock knock" ideas. We drew on each other's and discussed what we thought was better/worse about each other's so that we could pick the best from each concept and combine. We also thought about trying landscape and playing with this concept more.

Sam's Posters Week 2

After seeing the amazing posters Hannah has done, I was a little intimidated to start mine and a little apprehensive as we have a similar style and I wanted to try and doing something that would look different and give us lots to play with in our next session.
Anywho, I've gone ahead with 3:

This concept demonstrates subversion. Letting the text/slogan become the image by making the type out of sauce. It targets out audience by using the slang terminology students are familiar with. It addresses the purpose behind the event of the need to know your neighbours in an emergency by presenting a humorous 'emergency' situation, and is evidenced in the tagline. It relates to the BBQ theme through the use of sauce (a hand-in-hand kiwi product to be found at any BBQ). And it addresses the neighbourhood element of the event in the tagline/body text. I think it is quite a successfully simple approach sticking to just the red and the white (emergency colours).

This concept employs satire, and juxtaposition. It is a humorous take on what could be quite an unfortunate emergency situation, but is actually just a BBQ situation with sausages and sauce. It addresses our student audience with the dry humour and the "REAL > FREE > FOOD" information. The BBQ event is suggested through the sausage imagery. The image along with the headline also addresses the emergency element of our concept, and the neighbourhood information is presented in the body text. Again, I like a simplistic approach, letting the wittiness of the concept speak for itself.

This concept is again using satire, and juxtaposition. The emergency situation is demonstrated through the photograph and headline. Again, the students are targeted by the promise of "REAL > FREE > FOOD". The neighbourhood information comes in in the body text and the BBQ element is addressed by the sauce and body text. I have used a stronger photographic approach in this one which is interesting to compare. I actually quite like this concept as it feels like there is a very deliberate space for the body text and I like the headline and accompanying tagline.