“Smoking Kills” Analysis

“Smoking Kills” Analysis

I felt that my idea to use skulls as the key aspect to perfectly flow with the idea that “Smoking Kills” as it is the best to show the dangers of smoking itself. My intent is to visually represent the future of constant use of smoking in a deeply depressing way. What I mean by that is to show the worst of the things that can happen to you such as death. So I took a picture of a skull of Google images and enhanced the features and added smoke to add an effect. I used three different skulls for three different posters. One was a 2D basic hazardous skull on chemical cans which I added a bright yellow and added an embossed to make it pop from the background. With a cross of cigarettes like the pirates use but not cross bones. The second one was a dark one which blended with a black background so I converted it to red with a color overlay and added optical flares into the eyes to make it extremely pop and catch your eyes, then added a cigarette to his mouth to resemble what I am conveying and then of course added more smoke which gave it a devilish look to it which helps me out by showing how its dangerous. The last one I used again was a skull but with just a plain grey with some smoke around it because I made t look like it came out of the cigarette when you blow the smoke. This caused an effect of realism towards smoking.

The reason why I chose the idea to talk about “Smoking Kills” is because a lot of people do it. My friends included. So I want to show people why you shouldn’t be doing this and many don’t know about the deadly facts about it, or they are to naïve to think about it. Within that my main quote used was “Tobacco kills about 45,000 Canadians a year. That's more than the total number of deaths from AIDS, car accidents, suicide, murder, fires and accidental poisonings combined.” Not only is it a very serious thought put forth into your mind which causes you to think about it more, but it hits you personally cause at first you would never of guessed the truth of that. So that’s why I decided to go with that quote and the pictures I had used. It all suited each other well and caused a great outcome for posters.