For those of you
that may not know what a broadside is let me explain. They are printed posters
that announce events, news, advertisements, proclamations, etc. They are a
single sheet of paper and where like newspapers before newspapers.
I love broadsides
one they are so cool just the way they are printed with cool weird
illustrations and two they said the coolest stuff. They ranged from, ads to
religion, to stuff about dead people to last words of people sentenced to
execution. You could put what ever you wanted on them and I love that.
In class we got to
make our own broadsides. I was really interesting to here what people did. Some went funny, making a satire of Donald Trump
and Hillary Clinton, some went historical talking about the printing press, and
some went news related talking about the recent property destruction of TCU by
Baylor. They took the form of news page, announcements, wanted posters and
more.
The one my group
did was a propaganda poster for people to go to Mars for water set in the not
to distant future. It was fun to come up with something that was engaging that
people might want to read.
I really enjoy broadsides
and think they are a great way to get information out with out having to create
mass amounts of content for a whole book or newspaper. That's why I think
broadsides are cool.
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