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Poster Inital Research
What is a poster?
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A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface.[1] Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative. Posters may be used for many purposes. They are a frequent tool of advertisers (particularly of events, musicians and films), propagandists, protestors and other groups trying to communicate a message. Posters are also used for reproductions of artwork, particularly famous works, and are generally low-cost compared to original artwork.
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a. A large, usually printed placard, bill, or announcement, often illustrated, that is posted to advertise or publicize something.
b. An artistic work, often a reproduction of an original painting or photograph, printed on a large sheet of paper.
What is the purpose of a poster?
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Posters are typically attention-getting ways of giving information to a passer-by. Posters use graphic and typographic elements to give information about something, usually with the goal to increase a passer-by's knowledge of the poster's subject.
For example, it's often easy to tell if a movie is an action movie or a comedy or a horror, based on the imagery and the treatment of the letters in the title.
A poster of an event or product will often use varying sizes of type, pulling a person in with something like "Free!" or "$100 prize!" or "Tonight only!" in larger letters, with the smaller letters explaining more to someone who was captured by the larger type.
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The main purpose is to grab people's attention. Once it has achieved that purpose, its next purpose is usually to provide people with information. Sometimes posters are designed to make people curious about something, and encourage them to seek out further information of their own accord.
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What a poster typically looks like
By Jazmine Allen