This is the only one of my posters I wish I could have had more time on (I set myself the deadline of the 27th though, so I have become the architect of my own destruction), so I could develop it further and really finalise it in a way I'm happy with. Fences is the story of a man living in 1950s Pittsburgh, who once had big dreams of being a baseball player, but by the time black men were allowed to even play, he was too old. The ideas of missed opportunity, wasted potential, and frustration at the way the world works made me want to create quite a sombre image. I chose a dark colour palette to reflect this. I intended the different shades of brown to represent the different shades of skin in people subjugated in America as black people, as it didn't really matter how black you were, or where you were born, being black was the crime and there was no coming back from that. I chose to put these different shades as parts of the same fence to communicate that widespread ignorance.
I wanted to do more with the idea of a fence as a structural support and the protection of a house, as black slaves and their workforce largely built America into the titan it is today. However, I did struggle a lot with being able to communicate these complex historical and theoretical ideas into a small film poster, so I went for the simpler design. I've learned a lot about how to represent these kind of issues through my idea development, so that's something I'll be carrying over into my practical for COP, as I'm investigating similar concepts.
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