Bibliography

The Wolf of Wall Street poster for "The Women of Wall Street" idea.

• https://www.behance.net/gallery/10663523/The-Wolf-Of-Wall-Street

The image for the start of my 19th century idea.

• http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9780230250840

The information which I based my "Women Through the Ages" poster and used statistics from.

• https://www.dol.gov/wb/pcswinfographic.pdf

Readings;

• http://www.amanet.org/training/articles/Caution-Women-Competing-at-Work.aspx
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mia-redrick/why-women-compete-with-other-women_b_7035278.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/29/women-better-off-far-from-equal-men
• http://www.economist.com/node/15174418

Posters for week 1 poster models;

• https://unfetteredequality.com/2016/04/01/sexual-assault-awareness-month-survivor/
• http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2015/09/22/more-than-350-child-abuse-neglect-cases-reported-thus-far/
• http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/26089/equal-pay
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2785206/It-s-500-000-vagina-tax-Sarah-Silverman-goes-penis-shopping-new-campaign-highlight-gender-pay-gap.html

Week 6 Rational

Rational;

The concept of these final posters is that there has been a large increase in the amount of women who have joined the work force, therefore my stand point of the social issue of not enough women in the work place is positive because there is a noticeable change. The two posters are “Women Through the Ages” and “The Women of Wall Street”.

This responds to the brief by using visual rhetoric to communicate my stand point. My designs respond to my concept through the relatable nature of pathos because the work force is a relatable subject to most adults.

The “Women Through the Ages” poster uses the progression of time and dress for women from 1980s to 2010s to enhance the statistic in the body text. This poster uses an actual font from the 80s for the title. I have also used creepy doll like figures as a ironic look at the progression of women from weak and doll like to strong and powerful.

“The Women of Wall Street” poster is a parody of the “Wolf of Wall Street” poster. This is done to show that women are becoming more involved in businesses that used to be male dominated work spaces. 

Week 6 Poster Wall

Week 6 Finalised Posters for Print

These posters are the final ones that I sent off to the printers and am very happy with.

Week 6 Poster Final Big Development

These are the finalised poster concepts, they do need touching up in the way of text, fonts and colours.

The font needs changing to mimic the poster design of the real "wolf of wall street". The bottom text is too skinny to be read from afar. And the font in general is too thin in many places to see properly at a normal size. The font of the "starring" stuff needs to change or become capitals. 

The fade of the women works really well but the figures in the front need to be a little more vibrant and pop out of the poster to show the happiness of the 21st century women. The tagline at the bottom in the white is too small and in a weird place so it needs to be moved and made the same font and size as the bulk text.

Week 5 Second Poster Idea and Development

So to restart my idea for the second poster concept I took a very different path into a parody of the Wolf of Wall Street DVD poster. This is to play on the fact that this area of jobs was previously dominated by men and now has an increasing amount of women in the industry. 

My parody has changed the "wolf" into a powerful looking woman with a woman as well casting the shadow. The "starring" contains instead of actors, having adjectives about women and how important they can be. Also instead of the credits at the bottom have been changed to something that talks about women and their involvement in employment. This concept as a whole works really well because it is recognisable as "wolf of wall street" but yet it is obvious that it talk about women in employment and high class businesses. I do need to work on the fonts and sizes to match the real poster.

Week 5 Interim Critic

This interim critic gave me a perspective on the way my work was headed. Below is the typed out version of the paper critic and below that is what I gained from speaking to other students and my tutors about my ideas and mockups.

Do the visual solutions clearly communicate the central issue?
The central issue is the equality of the amount of women in the work force and that it has increased and it is a positive thing.

Is the central issue easy to identify in both solutions?
Yes, they both represent the diversity of the roles women have within the labour force. They also promote support for other women.

If so, why?
The drawings of the women represent the different roles. The text emphasises the issue and the idea of support.

If not, why?
I didn't realise that it was promoting the equality. Maybe that idea could be a little stronger. If it's about equality, maybe use more positive colours?

Are the posters visually engaging?
Yes.

If so, why?
I think that the hands are really cool. The range of different illustrations is interesting. 

Without the text on the bottom, the poster does not succeed in showing my concept at all. It may look nice but does not service it's purpose. I will have to restart this poster again. I am finding it very hard to create another poster that shows the concept and is a different style to my first one.

Just looking at the figures, it is hard to tell that they are from different time periods. If I want to carry on with doing them like that, then I need to make it way more obvious and maybe look at stats from a wider time period so I can do more specialised figures. I could also look into art styles from these time periods to change the figures into them. To make the transition through the time periods look like improvement for women, i could make them steadily get happier. If not, I should go the other way and look at only a wide variety of professions and maybe talk about them in the subtext. Also the background colour is not a colour that screams feminist or even womanly so that needs to be changed. Purple and white are the official feminist colours so I should look into using those.