Posters and banners have been in use since early days for communicating any message across a group of people. Communication is the very essence of life and nothing in this world can prosper or progress without the help of effective communication. So whether it is traditional media like television, radio, newspapers, posters, large posters or any other one needs to identify that one means that will be just perfect for whatever they are trying to communicate. One thing that you must realize that is only if the proper medium is used for communication, the message will reach across to people in the manner which one has intended. Large posters are easy to find and one can make use of this effectively for the purpose of promotion of any event, cause, goods or services. In fact large posters are the ideal means through which you can communicate about almost everything.
Rather then the size of the poster, it is the message and purpose of the poster that is more important. If you are one of those individual who is looking out for a means of promoting or communicating your first concern must be to find out which method will be suitable for the promotion. If required go for a proper research and then find out what things you would like to implement for your cause and work on that meticulously. Now making a large poster is not at all a difficult thing fro you or anyone else to do. There are many agencies that offer this service to clients and you just have to find out the most efficient professionals to do the work for you effectively. This can communicate just about everything to just about anyone anywhere.
When you talk to the professionals to make your large posters, make it very clear to them what all things you would like to have in your poster and what all things they need to highlight and how you would like the to make it for you. Large posters can be made in different color, shape, size and design depending on how you would like to make it. All the professionals that work in agencies which help are in the business of making posters of any kind are professionally trained to deal with this in just the right way. In fact some studies have found out that poster which is put in shopping malls, cinema complexes, trade fairs and exhibitions and other public places draw enormous responses from the mass.
One can also find posters and large posters about famous celebrities that fans like to put in their rooms. So it is not that posters can be sued for the purpose of promotion but for many other things as well. It is just that posters that are used for the purpose of promotion are entirely different from the posters of celebrities which one admires and loves. The poster that you make use of for any kind of promotional purposes can be humorous, serious, subtle and informative depending on the type of message you wish to disseminate across to your target audience.
Decade after decade, perhaps the most popular type of television program has been the detective story, the traditional "who dun it?", presumably because people enjoy being held in suspense. It is therefore instructive to note that one of the most popular TV detective shows of all time has no suspense to it whatsoever.
Remember "Columbo"? Reversing the conventional format, this show tells us exactly "who dun it" within the first five or ten minutes. The remainder of the show then invites us to accompany the dishevelled, seemingly bumbling Los Angeles cop (played by Peter Falk) as he bit by bit exposes the murderer's errors until the culprit has no option but to confess.
If people love being held in suspense, why has this decidedly un-suspenseful series been so unfailingly successful? Because people also love clarity. If they are going to be led on a journey, they want to know where they are going and why they are going there before they set off.
You are probably now wondering, "Where is all this TV nostalgia leading me?" Quite simply, to a crucially important principle about writing and public speaking.
"Creative" writers, i.e. those who produce short stories, novels, television scripts, film scripts and other forms of entertainment have a choice. They can be mysterious at the beginning, revealing all only at the end (the conventional approach). Or, like Columbo, they can reveal all at the beginning and then delineate the process that leads to the denouement.
"Expository writers", i.e. those of us who produce memos, reports, proposals, newsletters, textbooks, training manuals, research papers, etc., don't have this choice. Unless we tell our readers or listeners exactly where we are taking them and why they should want to go there, they are unlikely to come along.
This is because fiction and non-fiction serve two very different purposes.
By simplest definition, the fundamental purpose of creative (fiction) writing is to amuse and entertain. In other words, people come to a work of fiction expecting to be drawn in and are willing to help you in the task. After all, who doesn't want to be amused and entertained?
This is the conventional "who dun it" approach.
The fundamental purpose of expository (non-fiction) writing is to inform and instruct. Most people don't relish being informed and instructed. In general, they would prefer to be doing something else. If you want them to follow where you lead, you must make it worth their while from the very beginning. In short, you must be certain that they know almost instantaneously where you wish to lead them and what benefit they might get from coming along.
This is the Columbo approach.
In practice, this means that before you type a single word, you need to answer a fundamental question: "Why the hell would anyone want to read what I am going to write, or listen to what I am going to say?" If you can't give at least one or more good answers to this question, you have no business striking a key.
But caution. Don't fall into the trap of saying, "Well, they should want to read this or listen to this because it's important to them." This is viewing the world from your point of view, not theirs. In general, you cannot force people to read what they don't want to read or listen to what they don't want to hear. To be truly successful, you must demonstrate to your audience that what you have to say is important, not simply shout it. Once they decide to follow you of their own free will, success is almost guaranteed.
This crucial point is perhaps best expressed in what I immodestly call Yaffe's Law.
"If you give people what they want first, they are likely to accept anything else you want them to have. If you give them what you want first, they are likely not to accept anything at all."
Philip Yaffe is a former reporter/feature writer with The Wall Street Journal and a marketing communication consultant. He currently teaches a course in good writing and good speaking in Brussels, Belgium. His recently published book In the ?I? of the Storm: the Simple Secrets of Writing & Speaking (Almost) like a Professional is available from Story Publishers in Ghent, Belgium (storypublishers.be) and Amazon (amazon.com).
For further information, contact: Philip Yaffe Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 (0)2 660 0405 Email: phil.yaffe@yahoo.com
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