For this assignment, we were to create our own original poster for the movie we watched, The Power of One. At first I wanted to feature the silhouette of one man, and fill him with symbolic images that relate to the movie. But I decided that's been done too many times, and made the symbolic images themselves a silhouette, all mixed together. I used only black and white to stress the effect of contrast. Some white lines are used for detail in the black spaces. The four images I first traced were of an African American singing, a group of nazi officers, a boxing glove, and an elephant. Each one portrays an element from the movie, unity, oppression, strength, and geography, respectively. I'm happy with the outcome, but I'm not sure if adding the names of actors takes away from the impact of the centerpiece.
