Adoni's Creed

Starring in a six movie series, Rocky Balboa touched the hearts of countless Americans through his battles with other fictional boxers. In each successive film, Rocky was presented with life crises’, tough opponents, and his aging body. He came to define the notorious underdog continually drawing strength from previous obstacles to surpass odds and succeed. Rocky’s ability to keep moving forward, regardless of the challenge, is what made him who he is. Although my individual battle may be different, I mirror Rocky’s ability to constantly be persistent especially in regards to school and working out.

It has an ongoing flow of how the audience should read the poster. Beginning with the tagline then comes the comic strip which describes the story of the movie then the headline (movie title). The poster is trying to mention that movie is incredible and unique from

  The first aspect of an epic story that the movie demonstrates is with the other characters that Rocky interacts with. One of the first characters we see is Apollo Creed, Rocky’s training partner and one his best friends. Apollo is a retired boxer who still fights with Rocky but he comes out of retirement when a Russain announces his entrance in American boxing. An important characteristic worth noting here is how Apollo died. Apollo’s last name is Creed which is strikingly similar to the word greed. It’s apparent that Apollo has died because of how greedy he was, in wanted to prove to himself that he was still a good boxer even though he hadn’t fought in years. A different character that

The movie's success depends on using dated stereotypes: "angry black woman," "thuggish black man," and "innocent" white women. White men,

The movie poster that I have chosen is Maleficent, produced by Walt Disney and is released in year 2014. Movie poster is very important as it is considered as an advertisement for a particular movie. With containing the powerful visual elements of the movie such as the famous actors, movie title and attractive image, it can easily grab the audience’s attention. Some of the movie posters may include the main actor’s name as well. These visuals are vital to convey impactful messages to the audience and persuade them to watch. Maleficent is an example of using actress’s name to attract audience. The main actress name, Angelina Jolie is written in an elegant and simple black capital letters in serif typeface and is placed in upper part of the poster.

Finally, we decided to focus on the design and style of the posters, as well as some of the rhetoric appeals used, rather than talking about the topic itself. Thus, we concluded that our main point would be what we considered to be our strongest aspect of the posters, which we determined was the balance between pathos and logos in the posters. By choosing two posters to display data and facts, and two to display emotion-evoking images and messages, we determined that we provided enough variety of information so that an individual that is either interested in the facts of this topic or that is interested in the morality of this topic could be persuaded to pursue more information on this topic, or even heed our call for advocacy. Although we were met with some issues concerning time and a difference in both topic and design choices, we completed the poster series in a manner we were quite satisfied

The theme I have selected for my book is “...Despite one’s best effort, humanity will not always return the favor. Life is not a balanced scale; life is a dance of give and take that can leave one person on top of the world and another buried six feet under.” This theme can be linked to my poster’s slogan: “It is possible to be chained by the stories we have yet to tell,” because the chains that bound the Lacks family were the cause of the unjustness they were subjected to. The image I selected represents my slogan and the characters in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks because they felt locked up, left to rot as they wondered what had happened to their mother. The chains are the lies, the secrets, and the manipulations that the Lacks family

The purpose of the poster is to make men join the NAVY. It’s intended for men, because men were the ones to gain the “guns” and the emotion they get would be put down, because they don’t have the muscles the NAVY man does. The beliefs would be that if they join the NAVY they would look strong with muscles .

By making the words seem inconsequential in comparison to the image the artist immediately gave the words more power. Once noticed the revealing words explain the image and allow for the mind to wander to all of the battlefields it has heard of. The natural toned background split down the middle also plays a role by giving clear lines of separation between the gun and the megaphone. Even the color scheme plays a role, on the side with the gun the background is an unappealing yellowy-green, while the side with the megaphone has a nicer calming silver background. These choices allow for the reader to, even without the text, decipher the meaning of the ad.

The image used is very effective in this poster. The implication of the protagonist looking away from the audience and directly at his son, draws the audience’s attention directly to the child it also symbolises the love and connection that a father has for their child thus conveying an element of emotion and above all happiness. In addition to this the positioning of the word “Happyness” is very significant in this poster as it has been placed directly above the sons head. This may imply that the fathers’ happiness lies within his child and nothing else. The positioning of the word “pursuit” is also significant as it has been placed in the centre of the character near his heart, suggesting that the journey to happiness begins within him. Furthermore the idea that the child is leaning on his dads’ arms may also suggest an element of dependency and trust which is emphasised by him holding his dad’s hand. Colour The background

Irony: Also, in the banner one of the words is “conformity” and the irony is in the image the girl is skateboarding (a representation of rebellion/ individuality. So it is contradicting to say that we strive for this, and ironically show an image contrary to that statement. This also, adds comedic

I picked this image because I like how it has a rustic look too it kind of reminds me of the western movies. For the title I used a slab-serif called Rosewood Std as the font because it has the western feel, which works with the feel of the image. For the informational part I used sans-serif called Helvetica. I tried doing what Saltz mentioned when it comes to a dark or light background to use dark or white for the font so it’s legible to read. I, also like what Adam mentioned as well about negative space, which is the image itself and I didn’t want to over power the scenery with too much font. I wanted that negative space to be the eye-catching star for this poster. I once again picked some colors from the image for the color of my font

Sylvester Stallone, born to sever poverty, after seeing a heavyweight boxing fight, dreams up the idea for Rocky. The story of an underdog who gets a shot at the title. The conflict not being able to film the story with himself, playing the

This image is portrayed to either demonstrate frustration or success. In the year 2011 the original image was used in thousands of magazines with captions describing

The two posters both employ serif and sans serif typestyles but the Ringling poster uses a slab serif while the Barnum poster has a more decorative style serif. Moreover, the serif type on the Ringling poster has a bulkier, rounder, slightly casual appearance to it while the Barnum poster’s serif type appears more angular and rigid with a more formal appearance. The sans serif type on the bottom of the Ringling poster has that same slightly round and informal feel to it that the poster’s serif typestyle has, much like the way that the angular rigidness of the Barnum poster’s serif typeface is echoed in the choice of sans serif typestyle. In addition, the smaller display text at the top of the Barnum poster has a light gray drop shadow to set it apart from the other black text around the poster and to grab the viewer’s attention away from the colored type and image.