Activity Brief 2: Poster

You need to produce a poster for a local cinema or other entertainment venue (as long as it is different from the venue you chose in activity 1).  Your poster should include pictures, contact details, price details and details of some upcoming films/events. 

Tasks you need to complete for activity 2

• Task A – Collecting printed information

  1. Visit your chosen cinema/venue and collect some printed information about the venue and its presentations.  This could be in the form of  a brochure, a leaflet, a newsletter or a flyer.  The more information the better.

• Task B – Searching the internet for information

  1. Using a search engine on the internet, search for your venue. 
  2. Take a screen shot of the search results page
  3. Go to a suitable website and take screen shots of various pages that will be useful. 
  4. Print out your screenshots and along with the printed information from your venue (you may want to scan or photocopy this information), highlight the information that you think will be useful for your leaflet.  You should highlight text, pictures and figures that you might use.

• Task C – Creating your poster

1.  
   1. Use a blank publication in MS Publisher to layout your poster.
   2. Create a first version which simply contains the basic information for your poster – this information should have been highlighted on your screenshots and photocopies.
   3. Print out this first version and annotate to indicate how you will change the formatting of headings and maybe add tabs or tables to improve the presentation of your information.
   4. Also indicate how you will change one of the pictures by either cropping or adding a border etc.
   5. Make the changes to your poster and then print out a final version.
   6. Check your poster for mistakes. If you find any simply highlight them, make the changes and then print again (this time in colour).

• Task D – Emailing your poster

  1. Attach your poster to an email and send this to a friend asking for their comments.

  2. Take a screen shot of your email and print this out.