One Day In The Road Poster Analysis Essay

In the home
The image (figure.2.118) shows a woman securely closing blackout curtains. A second photograph in the poster shows a hand turning off the house's gas tap. The text is “In An Air Raid... If You Are At Home At night see that your blackout is complete. 1. Turn off all gas taps, then turn off gas at main 2.At All Times Keep Away From Windows.” Every householder was caught up in the nightly routine of ensuring that his house was fully ‘blacked out’; failure to do so was more than likely to draw on him the anger of the air raid warden and the neighbours, and persistent offending to result in a summons to the magistrates court.
Parceling in Blackouts
The poster (figure.2.121) shows a railway porter, holding up a lamp in his left hand,

‘Billy Brown of London town’, (Figure.2.51-2.57) a character created by David Langdon, personified exemplary behaviour in a poster series issued between 1941 and 1945. The ‘Billy Brown of London town’ had several posters and panel posters promoting blackout. The ‘Billy Brown of London town’ series by David Langdon was a light-hearted sketches commenting and informing on wartime London. There are evidences of similar poster campaigns from Germany (e.g. KLV poster campaigns, the shadow campaign) but we have no evidence of characterization. In Britain, poster campaigns were infused with characterization. Characters like, Sonny, the boy representing a young boy in Britain during the Evacuation. It was personalization which led the audience to relate to the characters. In other posters which promoted evacuation of children characterizations are in seen too. Poster like ‘Who will help Mrs. Harrison?’ and ‘Thank you, Mrs. Evans…we want more like you!’ Both the hosts (Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Evans) and the guests (Johnnie and Molly) are characterized. In the ‘Dig for Victory’ propaganda campaign from Britain characterization as Doctor Carrot and Potato Pete was