For this week’s assignment we are creating a propaganda poster using Adobe Illustrator. We are allowed to create this using whatever imagery (within reason) to convey whatever meaning we want. The poster must include text that can easily convey the message we are trying to get across to the viewer.
For my propaganda poster I want to use the musical “Wicked” (which is a back story to the Wizard of Oz) as a basis for my idea and link it with the American government. In “Wicked” the Wizard of Oz is known as an all-powerful being. Because he is in Oz, the “Ozians” believe that nothing bad could ever happen there. But through a series of unfortunate events the main character, Elphaba (the wicked witch) learns that there are actually some really terrible things happening in Oz, and that the Wizard is actually behind them.
I thought it would be interesting to make the United States Capital look like the Wizard’s palace in the Emerald City. This symbolizes the fact that our government is “an all-powerful being”, and because of this we sometimes believe that nothing truly bad could happen to us. We think that the terrible things that happen in other parts of the world could never reach us, but they can.
I want the poster to be as if Elphaba is the spokesperson for Oz, and she is telling them that nothing bad could happen in Oz. The text I want to use will say “It couldn’t happen here in Oz”.