Travis+W.

2nd

Rationale: In the movie poster for Slaughterhouse Five, I used different visual techniques and information to convey what the story is about. The black and white image is to show how the time period during World War II where they didn't have color photography or film. The font used in the title of the book is to present the grimness and dark mood of the story. On the edge of the poster are dark borders that are blurry, and the color around the edges of the border are different shades than the actual image of the battlefield. This is to show how Billy once experiencing the firebombing of Dresden and the war, became crazy and had a distorted picture of reality. While Billy being abducted by the Tralfamadorians (aliens) and his time in the war didn't occur at the same time, they are shown together since the Tralfamadorians experienced time as all at once, no past present and future. Billy came to experience his life in the same way as he skipped from his experiences in the war to his time being captured. The sense of helplessness Billy shows while being abducted in the poster is to symbolize the fatalism theme of the book. The Tralfamadorians didn't believe in free-will, so as such Billy began to accept war and death showing so in the reoccurring line he says when someone dies, "so it goes".