Thinking Creatively!
I tried to make my collage as creative as I could and I think I have done that quite well comparing to similar previous work I had done.
One of the creative aspects of my poster was the way I displayed my pictures and the way I tried to make my background a bit more colorful than just a black paper, the main way I tried to display my pictures originally was by putting them in order around the poster to make it look like the Lost Boys stepped migration. Another part that I tried to make creative is the words I stuck on above or next to some pictures. I tried to make those creative by writing them in different colors from the paper they were stuck on, adding appropriate shapes to them, or cutting them into a different shape.
Reason Critically!
First of all, all of my pictures were relevant and each of them show a different part of the Lost Boys’ trip. For every part of my poster I also chose pictures that I though showed quite well there emotions and how they felt, I also tried to place them in the order of how I though they would felt them. For example at the start, on the bottom left, I wanted to represent happiness and excitement in their home village in Sudan by showing a picture of Dinkas performing a traditional dance where they look happy, I then tried to represent them getting attacked by showing pictures of guns shooting at the Sudan map and the Sudan flag, I then had pictures of the long walk in the desert, pictures of refugee camps and survivors and to show them moving from the refugee camps to America a picture of a plane with a sign that says hope.
To show all the problems they had in America I basically had a picture for each problem like the picture of a building that says jobs and a queue of black stickman in front of the entrance. Basically I had a picture for every step of their migration and for nearly all of their emotion.
Communicate Effectively!
I think my collage shows pretty well my understanding of the Lost Boys plight because I have a few pictures for each main action that happened in their story and because most, nearly all, of my pictures do not show them being happy, Mainly because they were not, and also nearly all of my pictures represent a challenge they had and how it was hard for them to surmount it. An example is I have two pictures that show the long walk from Sudan to Kenya and I have pictures showing them having minimum-Wage jobs, which I picked because I though that they represent quite well their bad situation.
I tried to make my collage in a way that anyone that would see it would stop to take a better look and understand how hard it was for the boys to survive and just live later. I think it might make them act or react because I have some quite shocking pictures such as the one of the kids caged in a wooden sort of little prison or like the picture of a kid with a gun.
I think if my poster actually did touch them then they try to find out more about the Lost Boys of Sudan and might try to look a way to help them.
