Final poster

My message was to engage the youth to participate in taking responsibility for their future, since I found they are the largest non-voting percentage in New Zealand. When looking at my research I found the reason of those who did not vote in New Zealand was often being childish and lazy, hence why I decided to base my poster on toddlers. Playing on pathos as my main element of rhetoric persuasion I photographically manipulated my imaginary to be humorous but slightly cringe worthy in being perceived as a child. For my font I chose a slightly playful title and the clean Helvetica type for the important message of voting.

Adding heads on to kids bodies

trying out block font and landscape ^ i don't think the layout or font works the pastel colours clash to much. 

New photographs

I asked the kindergarten next door to Massey if some of the children and parents would like to help me with my project in return i would take family studio portraits of there children for them. the little boy is called Nicholas and the girls name is Mia, i also had to ask a random student to help me since i needed more dramatic facial hair than what my flat mate henry had. I am super happy with how the shoot went i can't wait to see what the imagery end up looking like !     

Development 2

I added to children because i didn't want my poster to speck to only one gender, I also cut down the font to three words with a more positive message since its an easier technique to persuade others to vote, Feedback from my classmates and tutor is use little kids ? to make the imagery even more dramatic.    

Baby Blocks

I made my own font on illustrator using pastel colours, this hard since i am not really amazing at illustrator but it did teach me alot

Development

In interim my classmates said I should try a more playful font like baby blocks and also try a different composition, I think this make a more dramatic impact on the viewer than the lighter font !   

INTERIM 2

with the feedback i got from my classmates and tutors i looked into my two strongest ideas, time to grow up and stoping living in your bubble,

the feedback i got was to change the font for the top headline, soften

the hair more, less text for the bottom information, try out suing different genders and neutral gender colours also try make the photography even more dramatic      

time to grow up edit ^ 

another grow up edit ^

don't stay trapped in your bubble idea ^

another grow up edit ^ 

Artiest models

Original idea, art direction, retouch: Cristian Girotto
Photography: Quentin Curtat.

i feel that Cristian Girottos work is super helpful to my concept its very close to something i want to achieve ! 

they have done a pretty amazing job of making adults look like children

INTERIM 1

I presented to the class three ideas, Stop living in your bubble, time to grow up and trapped in a bottle. the feed back I got is to look into Bubble and time to grow up as trapped in a bottle sends the wrong messages e.g. drinking not voting. they also liked my thumbnail for the puppet idea.