The poster

As Melissa and I are working as a group for this portfolio, when I was working on website, Melissa made the poster for our documentary.

And here is the poster.

For the background, we choose the statue in our school and also with the building which is the domitory. The reason that we choose to take the picture at the front of the statue is because the statue is a sign of our school. Also, to show the narrative, we let our character wear uniform for the costum. And we let her bring her bag and hold the books and folder, all of this showing that she is a student. Moreover, as she is a Chinese student, let her stand in a Western school again show our narrative of our documentary that it is about Chinese students studying in a foreign school. 

For the typography, we use a blackboard poster font for the title, which is more likely to be a Chinese font style. And the reason of using white is because in China, we often use white chalk for teaching, this could link to that. 

Our tagline is "travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. - Paolo Coelho."  Even though here is travel,  for the Chinese students, studying in a foreign country is quite similar as travel that courage is more important than money.  And therefore we choose this for the tagline.