UK/US WW2 propaganda

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The theme I would like to go along is something on the Raf and airforce front, I really like the style of the posters and I can see a link between my potential choice of twitter as my web 2.0 social media and airforce/Raf posters.

These posters all use blue which resemble the sky, there is also use of red witch contrasts with the blue.

The imagery used is mostly all focused upon their iconic uniforms and their faces. For the "never was so much owed" poster the pilots refereed to as the "few" look happy and want you to show respect and gratitude compared to the other posters which show more serious expressions and give want you to help/show support for the airforce/raf, I want to give a more serious feel to my poster, one of my ideas is to relate to the "America will build" poster and change the aircrafts to the twitter birds.


Imagery:
The images used in this style of poster all relate to aircraft, pilots and the sky. These styles posters use a mixture of hand drawn/painted images and actual photographs, is i am drawing my posters in illustrator in vector format only I will not be using photographs, if I need to use something like a photograph in my poster i would have to trace an existing photo.
The imagery focuses heavily on the pilots, three of them that I have shown hear show the pilots in all the iconic flight gear, the poster with the face coming in from the top right corner you instantly know is a pilot due to the goggles and flying helmet. The poster that I most like here is the War planes poster, from using illustrator I can see how I would replicate it which would be a good start in designing my own poster.

Text:

The text used in these RAF/USAF poster do vary between similar posters unlike the soviet styled ones where you can see a definite style in most of the posters.

The text that I think best suits these posters and that I would use is the text that looks "tall" compered to other fonts, the font really stands out as a main heading, it is used well when it is used in short words and phrases like "YOU" The style of text is bold and in some cases condensed which pushes the letters closer together, in some cases it is used to take up less room but on the top poster it creates a more impacting effect of the word.


The words themselves always have something important to stay that is very impacting, as some of the posters made were to get the public to help a lot of the posters use phrases which want you to help and create an emotional reaction in which to get the public (audience) to help. 

Colour:

The colours used in these posters all focus on the blues and reds and are used in contrasting ways to get the audiences attention. The reds are quite dark (deep,dirty) compared to the blues that are lighter and sometimes overlapped to create darker blues. In these posters the backgrounds always a very pale lightly textured yellow and not a bright "clean" white. The posters mostly use gradients that will build up the image, this is shown clearly on the "eyes of the home skies poster".

Layouts:

The layout of the posters although all different follow the same theme: large text on the top or bottom of the poster with and image filling the opposite space on centre. The "never was so much owed" poster the text is aligned left with the image of the pilots starting high on left, this layout draws your eyers towards the left of the poster and makes you read the text after you have seen the picture so that you know what it is about.