From reading Kyle Schlesinger’s essay about broadside the image below is an example of the earliest versions of a broadside. A broadside one large one sided page. It just so happen that broadsides are used to inform others of what they are conveying as well as let society know what is happening. During the 1950’s and 60’s broadside became very popular within poetry.

Below, is an example of a broadside that expresses total immersion, overlap, layering and much more that demonstrates a broadside. To begin, this piece shows total immersion by creating an image through text and text as an image. By the use of words that describe the movie, it also displays a picture that demonstrates the movie actors and how they expresses what the words have to say about the movie. The title of the movie “Dodsworth” stands out much different from the other texts as it is in color red and a much larger scale than the other words. This is defined as display type as the letters are larger in scale than anything else on the page. The moving to the sides where other text is located each text type is different. The fonts for each attribute of the poster are different to create more of an overall effect on the page. Not much text is at the baseline of the page but in this case the spacing between the different font scales stays consistent. The only out of place text is the text far to the left. This text that stands alone signifies much more importance and is place by the images for effect. This also goes for the images, each image is a different color that matches the color of the text. This truly shows total immersion between the text and images used on the page.

Finally, the text overlap of the images is placed for a reason near one another. It creates a unity between the text and images. The layering of some images defines more the poster as it has visual going along with words. The layering allows more images and color to happen as well as keep that total immersion between the text and image.

1936 Movie Broadside
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