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Poster Subject, Purpose & Audience

For the assignments poster it’s going to be a certain promotional piece for an animation that might be created in the future and the project will be about Science Fiction which means the audience is going to be roughly 18-34 years of age since that seems to be the most common age of science fiction fans as well as the average age of YouTube users which is where this animation would be poster for entertainment. 

There are many good Sci-Fi posters but not many that were conceptual rather they were more literal and straight to the point with no secondary meaning behind them making posters no good for analysis, however, book covers are more known to convey hidden meanings. 

Alien 1979 poster was not very conceptual as it only shows an egg with a green crack indicating that something comes out of the egg and nothing more.

The book covers are more conceptual because they combine a few simple ideas usually found in the title of the book into a graphic that conveys a deeper meaning.

Isaac Asimovs The Rings Of Saturn (Asimov, 1989) Displays Saturn as a sub-human skull within the planet itself which to me speaks of a deeper meaning leading to what may happen within the book itself. (Figure 2)
Philip K. Dicks Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (Dick 1968) depicts a sheep that is coiled up like an old telephone wire which makes me think this sheep is powered by electricity and is true to the title of the book. (Figure 3)
Katherine Applegate’s Animophs book series (Applegate, 1998) is rather intriguing as it depicts humans morphing into animals but shows exactly what the author is thinking when these humans transform into animals as that’s what I assume the books are about. (Figure 4)

Alien. 1979. [DVD] Directed by R. Scott. 20th Century Fox. (Figure 1)

Applegate, Katherine, 1998. The Discovery. Scholastic Corporation. (Figure 4)

Asimov Isaac, 1989. The Rings Of Saturn. Lightning. (Figure 2)

Dick, Philip, 1968. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep. Doubleday. (Figure 3)