At Julian's suggestion, I printed both the Illustrator version and the photo version of my design. Most of my tutorial mates, like me, prefer the photo version. For the Illustrator version, the hair is the focus (someone said it looks like a shampoo ad). I guess I didn't really realise that, I just felt that the wrist is not the focus as it should be, but I thought the girl is the focus. Anyway, since I have done the photo version, I don't have to worry about that :)
Most of the comments for the photo design were positive (which explains the smile in this post's title ;)). A lot of people thought the dog was a teddy bear, which poses a problem for my portfolio if I want to do a dog theme, but I guess for the poster, that's not a big issue. Someone also commented that the dog is too small, but many others found it to be ok, so I'm not going to change it.
For the design, the only thing I'm going to try changing is to align the hand with the copy, as Julian have suggested. I'll have to learn to have an eye for details as minor as this :)
The biggest problem with my poster is the target audience. The image of a person cutting his/her wrist may motivate self-mutilating people to follow suit instead, which is exactly what the poster should not achieve. I think this is a really good point! I haven't even realised that. My tutorial mate suggested that I should change the target audience to people who will be scared by the poster, i.e. normal people who don't have depression. She also suggested that I can target child depression/suicide instead, so as to justify the toy. I'm going work on this suggestion, when I've done some research and thought of a good slogan. That will be in the next post. :)
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