As what was documented in one of my previous blog posts as part of the requirements for my brief I deconstructed several TV programme/documentary posters that advertised the show to the public. The idea of this was to recognise the different elements that are used in these productions (specific text styles, colour scheme etc) to make it a conventional product. I took inspiration from the ones I liked best and I plan to incorporate them into my final finished poster. However I gained a massive insight into my idea through the viewing of a novel I read to draw a personal understanding about the memoir of a young woman who suffered and fully recovered from anorexia nervosa.
The image itself that is displayed on the cover is mysterious yet alluring and it attracts the attention quite dramatically from the audience its targeting (young adults upwards). The photo of the girl excludes her face, I feel this emphasises the seclusion anorexia causes the sufferer to endure as their obsession with food regularly isolates them from reality making them mere fragments of our society. To me it also personifies the disorientation they face when fully under the influence of the condition as it causes so many physical complications like heart flutters and severe migraines, the blurriness henceforth reinforces this significantly. I like the way the woman is posing on the image as it allows the audience to gain a full understanding of her physical deterioration, her bones are clearly visible in her arms and her bodily frame is so petite and fragile it immediately elicits a score of sympathy. This is an element that overall will be the main focus on my poster as I want the photography to provoke an empathetic shocked response from the audience as they can clearly see the malnourishment anorexia has caused to the model.
The layout of the text is fairly consistent with the positioning I would want for my ow poster, I may use this cover as a big influence to construct the position of the text on my final product. The style 'Thin' is written in is a very delicate spiral shape, I feel this relates to the fragility of the body of one plagued with the illness and would be a good concept to include in the text on my poster.
The colour scheme remarkably fits with what I desire as the background is neutral which essentially is what I wish to replicate and most of the writing (neglecting the authors name and reviews) are in a white hue. I would discard the colour element for in my own text and instead convey with the neutral white, grey and black tones. I'm intrigued with the costume design for the model on the cover as a dress is a very simplistic but effective method of attracting the viewers attention to her frame as you could easily mistake her to be a child (yet she is a mature woman) In my photo shoot I intend on dressing my own model in an outfit like a dress as I believe it will illustrate more the fragility of her body now that she has succumbed to anorexia.
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