In today's session, I tried out some photomontage today to explore the range of different techniques and ways of creating posters. The first step was to print off larger versions of images that I have already collected and then I started to cut them up to try out different combinations with my imagery. I first started to stick them down with blu-tack so I didn't have print them off again if I liked one combination over the other.
The first combination I did consisted of three North Korean Anti-American posters combined together to create one long poster. I sort of like this combination because it really shows the sort of hate and malice that North Korea holds towards western civilization, and the blatant use of prejudiced views of the residents of North Korea as a tool for control over the populace. However I feel a black background would be more suited for this composition and this is what I used for the next photomontage to see if it would be more effective.
The second combination uses a black background and features 6 images which include the previous North Korean propaganda, some American propaganda, some Russian propaganda, and one advertising poster for 7-up (just to mix things up. I don't really like the composition of this piece as it is highly mismatched and devoid of any defining form to describe. The ideas while interesting don't really add up to any meaningful conclusions and seems to look like a cluttered mess. However the black ground is the best medium for this propaganda experiment which I learnt from constructing this piece so it isn't all too bad.
This last one, which is my final composition, has a lot more structure then the last one and overall feels a lot better with its theming and its message then the second one but still has that striking black background which was the highlight of the second one. The scene is supposed to depict (metaphorically speaking) the fall of america to the hands of patriotic North Korean soldiers. Again this is reinforcing this irrational hatred of America that North Korea has and its warmongering nature of wanting to start a fight with the USA. I think this my best photomontage yet since it combines interesting themes and good composition. My next experiment was with a on-line app called wordle.
The programme wordle can take any amount of keywords and create a collated image out of it which creates a unique piece of work and can be used for anything to Photoshop, to my photomontage. What I like about this programme is how easy and simple it is to operate it, all you need to do is type in the words and press the "go" button and it instantly generates the wordle. However because of its simplicity there is little room for customization and you can't place the words where you would like them to go but overall I found it to be useful for generating a quick piece of text work which would look good in other projects where the textwork could be used.
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