Brief Rationale
My poster explores the concept of social media being bad as
it causes children to follow the societal trend of being constantly plugged
into social media.
I used light colours of blue, white to create a calm and
peaceful atmosphere to the image because I wanted to show that there is an
approachable world outside social media. The darker blue was used to create a
little bit of contrast to the composition.
The rhetorical approach I chose was using balloons
representing social media because children can relate to wanting balloons. The
image shows the girl releasing the balloon as it is seen as a symbol of releasing
the bad from you and being able to feel the world around us. Each balloon
represents the top social media used by youth of Facebook, Snapchat, Youtube
and Instagram.
In terms of Ihi and wehi I wanted my poster to have a type
of uplifting persuasion without being too exaggerated in a negative way. This
suited the idea of being free from social media better because it illustrated
the world without social media being good rather than just showing social media
being bad. In conclusion I wanted to convince people through promoting the
positive space outside of social media rather than focussing on the negativity
of social media.
