Poster research

The first image you see is a collection of cartoon comics I have found. I was inspired to look into the unfairness of the college/uni admissions and how being in a lower class affects the students meanwhile others receive more opportunities. After speaking with my tutor, we discussed how it would be more effective to create the comics in my own style, and the way I’ve set it out reminded me of a ‘interview’ comic style. Like you would see on reality TV or games.

I wanted to set it out so that the comic wasn't too messy but showed the differences between the characters well despite the whole thing being black and white. Before I drew that though, I created a little ‘character sheet’ to help me get my ideas down solid and to know what I’m drawing.

I wanted to set it out so that the comic wasn't too messy but showed the differences between the characters well despite the whole thing being black and white. Before I drew that though, I created a little ‘character sheet’ to help me get my ideas down solid and to know what I’m drawing.

Eventually, this became my final piece.

some character doodles and concepts:-

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There was a lot of layering involved with this piece, I wanted to try and lead it like a Z styled fashion magazine; my main aim was to start at the bottom, then read the bubble text before moving onto the main piece of information. The bolding of the ‘traditional working class’ was the most important aspect as I wanted my class to STAND OUT so it didn’t drown out with all the other titles, which is why the names have text spaced out, and the upper title was bold and italicized.

Since its a ‘comic styled’ and ‘interview’ like comic, I wanted to add humor to it. The style was also somewhat inspired by the political comics ‘VIZ’ - where the characters had very inappropriate humor , but more so the style they were drawn in. I wanted to stray away from the ‘manga’ style I have into something more approachable.

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The way they give their show characters some insight and speech on the situation .

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/nov/21/english-class-system-shaped-in-schools - this article stresses the fact of the divide in the school system. ‘I learned as a small child I had to work at least twice as hard as the middle class children to achieve the same result.’ Was a quote by Diane Raey who had personal experience growing up in an unfair school environment due to her parents' classes.

Personally growing up, even in preschool I experienced first hand in favoritism of the ‘gifted’ children while the ones who struggled needed help, which is why the working class believes there is no hope for the children based on the social classes they were placed in (like quoted in the video https://youtu.be/bKssICPUUJs )

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Then we have the special lack of colours which I think really completes the page. I could have added colour for more association and to explain the different styles and classes through the characters, but I did that just by using patterns associated with ‘classy’ and ‘nerdy’ to avoid using clustering colours. ( I.E leopard print on stacy’s skirt vs the pleated skirt on Jessica)

I overheard someone mentioning ‘colours standing out’ and a random idea popped into my head to add little backgrounds for each section to show divide. I know it is opposite of what I’ve been working towards , but it was a small test , I’m interested to see what the colours would look like on the titles instead;

The only issue I have with these, is that the coloured titles take away the attention grab from the images.

I did find an example of a black and white design with a ‘splash of colour’ . I think in this instance, the colour really makes the text pop but I think that's due to the fact that the text is white and they’re only outlined in black, meanwhile my text is actually black. Though after some discussion with my peers, I have decided to keep it black and white.