Before, starting a final summary of my whole process of designing a poster and other items, I thought I'd share some more theoretical knowledge that I gained while researching for my critical introduction.
So basically what I did before starting to write my critical introduction was, looking at every single part of my poster in detail. Color, transparency, layers… I analyzed everything, and one element was particularly eye-catching as I took a closer look at it. What I'm talking about is the modified picture of the Bandstand. I used the color halftone tool on Photoshop to change the original photograph, but I didn't really know what 'halftone' actually meant. So I started doing a bit of research online about halftone, pointillism and CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black).
'Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous tone imagery through the use of dots, varying either in size or in spacing, thus generating a gradient like effect. ''Halftone can also be used to refer specifically to the image that is produced by this process' (Wikipedia).
This means that the dots in CMYK produce a black shape, in the case of my poster the shape of the Bandstand, but when having a closer look at it, one can clearly recognize the pattern of different dots and different colors.
I think this color halftone is a very impressive phenomenon because it is a kind of optical illusion and creates new shapes simply by combining dots in different colors.
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