Different propaganda it seems, have similar qualities to one another. While people were presenting their posters many said the same things for their choice in color, text, layout and images, they all wanted and needed to be remembered. Many of the posters had a large image in the center that drew your eyes, while at the same time having large text that otherwise would have dominated the poster. It seems to me that with propaganda posters it is very similar to just talking, because many people believe that if you say it louder more people will remember it, same a posters, the larger its written the more likely people are to remember it. However we also have to take into account what is being said, if it is dull and has no weight it will probably not be remembered whether it is loud or not, but if it is interesting and catchy than it might be more memorable.
Another thing that I would to really connect all the posters was that we were focusing on making people feel rather than providing information for the public to decipher. To do this many of us portrayed people of power, abusing said power, as ugly, as disfigured, and things emphasizing the worst. Looking at other propaganda posters through history I found that many of them also changed or portrayed the image of a “foe” as hideous and ugly.
According to http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111500/proptech.htm there are about eleven different types of propaganda. The types that this site explains include: Assertion, Bandwagon, Card stacking, Glittering Generalities, Lesser of Two Evils, Name Calling, Pinpointing the Enemy, Plain Folks, Simplification (Stereotyping), Testimonials, and Transfer. Some of the more frequently used types of propaganda in our class was card staking, this is when you present information however you omit facts that are against your argument. Glittering generalities was also used my many of us because it is easy to use a word that implies that it is already good, or bad. Some of the posters that were very specific about their cause used Pinpointing the Enemy because it is very effective at gathering all the bad stuff and piling it onto one person, however simplification is very similar and also widely used because it provided an opportunity to exaggerate a problem or person and to glorify others.
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