practical exploration development

After researching and deciding on what type of poster i wanted to create i decided on the idea of a poster that was to show how easy people stereotype and how easy it is to be stereotyped by your gender. To present this ideas i decided to use symbols as i found these were the most basic from of stereotypes as the women is shown to be wearing a dress and the men trousers and they are also used in pink for the women and blue for the male. To break this stereotype i choose to address the issue by showing that the women figure is now always a women that it can be male and point out that sometimes men do wear dresses and that is acceptable. As well as the male figure i decided that i would tackle the issue of the male figure as well presenting it as a women as women today wear trousers just as much as men and it is not a cannon thing that all women wear skirts and dresses everyday.

To represent this in a humorous and cleaver why i decided to turn the symbols into super hero of the opposite sex. This portrays the idea that the way known stereotype can sometimes be wrong from first glance and that people do not always fit into the stereotype that you think of them straight away.

I decided to create the women figure are super man as he is a strong figure that wears a cape that as a silhouette looks like the dress of a women.

I then decided that i should also include a figure of a strong women to fairly present both genders equal, because of this i decided that the men figure would be turned into cat women, as this lead to the slogan ' it was never a men, it was always cat women without her ears'.

After creating the characters/illustrations i started to experiment with how i could turn them into a poster and what text i would use along side the image. I decided that i would stick to black and white as these colours have no association with gender so the poster would be as gender neutral as possible.

below are my experiments of layouts and text:

The above poster ideas a i found the over all effectiveness successful as the information i wanted to portray was clear, but i thought the look of the posters was simple as it was not eye-catching and didn't attract attention, because of this i decided to experiment more this the wording of the text and also the use of the colours.

Above are my designs using more of a contrast of black and white to make the design more eye catching. i also altered the text from 'it was never a dress, it was always supermans cape' to 'it was never a women in a dress. It was always super in his cape' by simply changing the wording of the quote it emphasised my point lot clearer by stating the stereo type. 

Similar to the design before design i changed the wording from 'it was cat women without ears all along' to 'it was never a men. it was always cat women without her ears' once again to emphasise my point of gender stereo types and that only men are seen to wear trousers.