Entry No 15

My poster is ready.  I am happy with the result because it shows the transformation that took place from one film to the other clearly and the message that I stuck in the middle “Civil blood makes civil hands unclean” is eye-catching.  The message brings about another transformation.  Without the message the viewers will just see the difference between one film and another and the changes that took place, whereas the message links both films together and makes the viewers think even more about the consequences caused by hatred and fighting.

 

 

The only thing that I have to be careful about in future, if I had to do another poster, is with the backing.  For my poster of “Romeo and Juliet” I used the card of three pizza boxes.  Although I stuck them neatly, parts of the joints are visible on the poster.  They look like creases, so to avoid this, although I would still re-use card from old unwanted boxes, I would open up just one box, big enough to cover the back of my poster.

 

Entry No 14

I prepared a collage, not a photomontage, as follows:

 

I joined two sheets of A2 white thin cards together using glue/masking tape.  To make the poster firmer, I covered the back by thicker card that I got from unwanted pizza boxes, to be eco-friendly in my work. 

 

In the middle of my poster I stuck a message connected to the tragedy.  I did not invent the message myself.  Instead, I used the newspaper headline that appeared at the end of the film “Romeo and Juliet” – the 1996 version.  It said, “Civil blood makes civil hands unclean”.  I found the picture of this headline on the internet.

Then I stuck all the other pictures.  The pictures that I stuck below and to the right side of the message relate to the 1996 film, whereas those that I stuck on top of the message and to the left side of the poster relate to the 1968 film.

I left the four corners of the poster blank with the intention of sticking a painted drawing of the four main characters – Leonard Whiting and Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo, and Olivia Hussey and Claire Danes as Juliet – in each corner, all of them holding a weapon.  However, after I drew Leonard Whiting with a sword in his hand and Claire Danes holding a gun to her head, I decided not to carry on with these drawings because I realized that they were going to be too eye-catching and most probably that would spoil the idea of transformation.

Therefore I decided not to stick anything on the corners of my poster.  However, the white colour of the card that was showing on the poster did not seem appropriate so I used wet teabags to give it a darker tone (after testing on two strips of white cards using watercolours and teabags to check which one was better to use).