Collage Posters

I started this weeks collage brief by dressing up two of my friends and photographing them. I really wanted to get hands on and creative. I felt it would spark some more ideas and inspirations once i had the images. It also gave me the option to work digitally with my own work.

I chose my favourite images and the ones i felt would work best on a poster, and cut them out on photoshop.

Here's the two digital posters i made using photoshop. 

Successes- 

• Using my own photography makes these images highly authentic and organic.
• Composition i felt worked well, using the 'multiply' tool to overlap and place the photographs strategically. 
• On the whole, I'm also pleases with the colour schemes.

Areas for development-

• I felt the finals didn't work well as posters. I could have added type to be promoting something or made the positions of the models more gestural to be promoting something. 
• Adding some of my own drawings would have added a bit more of a hand made feel to the finished product, which could have worked well next to the photographs. 
• Layouts before hand would have been a really good idea, and is definitely something i will consider when approaching the next brief.

Here's my handmade ones. I printed out the cut outs and found other bits of paper or painted various bits and bobs to collage with. I used type in one of these which I think makes it look a bit more like a poster than the digital ones did, although i still think i could have used it more effectively. 

Successes-

• The combination of my own photographs and some of my own painting worked well.
• Collecting various things for collage was so fun. The feathers in the second one are real, and i love that when its scanned its completely flat, but you still get the sense they're real given the textures you see. 

Areas for development-

• A wider selection of materials could have added more to the piece.
• If I'd world on a larger scale i could have been more creative and playful, added more type and made it more of a poster. Layout is key and that's definitely what i will take away from this brief and aim to improve.