British tourism posters were most commonly made by British railway companies. Prior to the 1920's the posters imaging was very landscape focused. Showing lakes, hills and the British nature. However, this was only the background for the mass of information they tried to squeeze onto the poster. The companies struggled between the idea that the posters should provide detailed information about train times and prices, and the idea that the poster should sell the location to the viewer. The outcome resembles that of a carnival poster featuring many different sizes and fonts of text with a busy image of the British countryside in the background.
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There are a lot of block colours and very little detail compared to the landscape in the past posters. This poster depicts a busy street lined either side by colourful store fronts. Some of the buildings look Victorian and you can see the outline of a grand cathedral in the distance. This promotes York from a historic point.
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A beautiful beach with beautiful girls to match is what you might expect to find in Bridlington from this poster. The style in which the girls are drawn, a smooth and colourful cartoon, reflects fun unlike a detailed, realistic and serious painting. The shore on the beach lines up with the bottom third and the building in the background lays on the left hand third. Yellow and blue or bluey green colours fill the screen making it so you can't forget that the scene is depicted at the beach.
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The style of painting here shows off the light, sunny day by making areas in the sunlight almost completely white. Similar to the last poster this poster for Cleethorpes beach features pretty girls. A lot of the clothes the people are wearing have blue accents, making you think of the water and sea that you can only see in the distance. The swimwear is also more up to date than that in the last poster. None of the girls have swimming caps or scarfs covering their hair and one is even supporting a two piece swim suit.
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There is an image of city hall in the back of the photo with the large father Christmas above the entrance that comes out when the Christmas markets start. In the left hand corner it also has an image of a stall from the Christmas markets. The Christmassy features gives the audience a look at Manchester at Christmas and how festively its decorated, like a snowy, winter wonderland. There are also people ice skating and people wrapped up in coats eating food. This not only tells you about the ice rink that is installed in Manchester at Christmas but also at the great food you can purchase at the Christmas markets or around Manchester as a whole. At the left there is also the silhouette of the Arndale, reminding people of the big chain shops in Manchester where you can get all your Christmas shopping.
This poster focuses on the commercial side of Manchester and the atmosphere at Christmas to draw people to the City. |