Title: Poster Activity
Course: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit

Imagine you are working for Tolkien’s publishers and have been asked to design a poster to relaunch the children’s novel The Hobbit.

In this activity, you will explore the use of promotional posters and visual design to convey themes, genre and characters of a novel to a particular market.

The Task
After viewing promotional posters for novels, students are to design a poster to promote the novel The Hobbit. In class we will review themes and key design ideas.

How You Will Be Marked
Your poster must:
* include a title.
* include at least one picture.
* relate to The Hobbit and appeal to your classmates
* employ propaganda techniques evident from examples from web sites.
* be graphically and visually appealing (neat, colourful, creative, and easy to read).