poster drafting

We wanted our poster to be shocking, to reflect the documentaries subject of eating disorders. we wanted it to make people stop, and think. The purpose of the poster was to surprise people and show them what an important issue eating disorders can be and then to hopeful interest people enough so they will watch the documentary.

Firstly we wanted our main image to be of a severely thin person to show people how serious eating disorders can be. Although we needed to take the picture and we didn’t know anyone who was that ill with a disorder. We then thought about photographing a delicious plate of food with a tag line saying is this scary… or something to that effect. We thought although it would be easy to do it wouldn’t be shocking enough to grab peoples attention.

Then I thought of photographing someone standing on scales, I photo shopped the number to make it really low. I chose black and white because I felt it made the poster more serious but kept it looking simplistic which I think is important for a poster. The main image was taken by me, and then photo shopped. I turned it black and white and changed the lighting and contrast to make the image more raw. And I lastly added typography saying the information we needed it to contain

after photoshop and made into poster

 

Origial Picture we wanted to

use from google imagesOrigial Picture we wanted to