Psychedelia is an art style that is influenced by the use of drugs it tries to portray what it looks like while using the selected drugs. Psychedelia is a very colourful wavy sort of art style, it uses very bright but cool colours with a few hot colours to mix, I think this is used to try and make the audience feel calm and safe. Patterns are used quite a lot to try and hypnotise the audience making them feel lost in the colours. Wildlife and humans seem to be some of the only things used in the art style, once again this must be because of how down to earth the art style is.
The type used in most of the images is curvy and does not feature many sharp edges, The colour of the type is also a colour that stands out so it is clear and easy to read and text is usually very thick, making it stick out. However sometime the type is incorporated within an image for example a human or a flower.
For my poster I am going to add my own type of text, it will still stick with the curvy theme. But I will not go for the generic type that is used across all of the posters I have looked at. I have created my own and I feel like it will fit nicely if it were to be put next to another poster that is Psychedelia themed.
Marshall McLuhan was a professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. However he was mostly known for how he influenced media through all of his studies. One of McLuhan's most famous quotes was, 'The medium is the message' this basically meant that McLuhan should not just look at the media but look at how it changes the life around you. McLuhan influence media with the, 'Media Theory'. He created many books that all use different types and layouts that fit with the overall theme of the book.
West Side Story is a very popular for being the most acclaimed musicals of all time. On top of the musical cam a very memorable poster that became very well known. The poster features a range of colours that all fit together very nicely the white on top of the red allows the white to stand out more and catch the audiences eye first. The type also includes itself with the image where it stacks on top of each word to make it seem as if it were the building. Some of the letters in the title also have also been stretched to once again involve itself with the image. I think that this is a very smart way of including type in the poster, it not only tells the audience what film the poster is based on but allows the poster to in a way become the logo and the most memorable feature of the Musical.
Another poster, this time it is about, 'The Good The Bad and The Ugly'. In this poster the type used isn't the typical western font they have decided to add their own twist on the typical font. I think this a very cool way of doing things because it makes the text their and it is a bit more fresh. The layout is quite peculiar, including a panorama type image in the very centre of the poster with three full body shots overlapping and cover up the rest of the page. Clint Eastwood is a very iconic character that can usually be identified by the clothes he wears so having his basically centre with a full body shot makes it very easy for the audience to understand what kind of western film this is.
Mary Shelley is the author of the book, 'Frankenstein' which was produced on the 16th of June 1816. Over the summer Mary Shelley, Percy Shelly and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin travelled to Switzerland in order to meet Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont who was Shrelley's step sister and Byron's mistress. Keats Shelley House (2010) Piazza di Spagna 26, 00187 Rome. Available at: http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/en/romanticism/timeline-1816 (Accessed: 16 September 2016).
After Fanny's suicide due to neglect, Percy Shelley proceeded to right many poems that were all about her. However the family and friends tried to keep Fanny's death hidden so no one would find out. Telegraph (2007) Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3666308/Too-shy-to-gossip-too-plain-to-join-in.html (Accessed: 16 September 2016) Shelley’s Guitar, no. 60; The Clairmont Correspondence, i, pp. 86-9.
Shelley's bath adress is 5 Abbey Church Yard, Bath, her house no longer exists however the Bath Abbey takes it's place. History Makers of Bath (2014) Available at: http://historymakersofbath.co.uk/mary-shelley-1797-1851/ (Accessed: 16 September 2016)
Quote from Shelley: "I placed my head on my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think. My imagination unbidden, possessed and guided me.. I saw with shut eyes, but acute mental vision, - the pale student of unhallowed arts standing before the thing he had put together, I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion... frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. His success would terrify the artist; he would rush away from his odious handiwork, horror stricken.... He (the artist) sleeps but he is awakened; he opens his eyes; behold, the horrid thing stands at his bedside, opening his curtains and looking on him with yellow, watery, but speculative eyes.". Here she describes how she came up with the idea for the story and a basic overview of the origin story. Frankenstein Films (2007) Available at: http://members.aon.at/frankenstein/frankenstein-novel.htm (Accessed: 16 September 2016)
Psychedelia is an art style that is influenced by the use of drugs it tries to portray what it looks like while using the selected drugs. Psychedelia is a very colourful wavy sort of art style, it uses very bright but cool colours with a few hot colours to mix, I think this is used to try and make the audience feel calm and safe. Patterns are used quite a lot to try and hypnotise the audience making them feel lost in the colours. Wildlife and humans seem to be some of the only things used in the art style, once again this must be because of how down to earth the art style is.
