REPORT SURVEY (revision)

Sintya Nirmayasari
15202241026/PBI-2F

Kind of Poster that College Student Interested in

Introduction

There are many posters in collage that we didn’t ever know which one is the most interesting poster for college students. The survey was conducted to find out what kind of poster that college students interested in.

Method

The research was done by asking students selected at random on Yogyakarta State University and several from other universities to complete an online questionnaire. Fifty five students were questioned from Saturday, 7 may until Wednesday, 11 may, 2016. With approximately equal numbers of male and female, 56,4% are female and 43,% are male and 90,9% are in a distance 16-20 years old.

Findings

Unique fact is that 41,8% of my correspondences thought that they are ambivert, 40% thought that they are introvert, and 18,2% thought that they are extrovert. The previous expert research told that the majority of human have extrovert characteristic. We can conclude from this survey that many of the extrovert confuse about their own characteristics. 

50,9% correspondences said that they look at posters 1-4 times in a week and 18,2% said that they look at posters less than one time in a week. we can conclude that college students rarely in look at posters. Perhaps, they just open-minded when they look posters and didn’t really look at that. 52,7% correspondences more interested in poster size A3 rather than A5, A4, and the others.  52,7 that college students more interested in posters that has smooth color rather than posters that has dark color and bright color. Of the majority, 69,1% more interested in poster that dominants in graphics, 20% more interested in poster that approximately equal in domination between graphics and text, and 10,9% more interested in poster that dominants in textual. We can conclude that college students more interest in poster that is dominants in graphics.

From the questions that has pictures in it, 20% correspondence like poster that has clearest meaning than other pictures (picture 1), 27,3 % correspondence like poster that has medium level of clear meaning (picture 2), then significant correspondence (52.7%) like poster that has unclear meaning (need some interpretations).  The interesting part is the different result when correspondences were asked “which poster’s language interest you more? clear meaning poster (don’t need interpretation) or unclear meaning poster (need some interpretations)”, 69,1% correspondences choose clear meaning poster and the 30,9% choose unclear meaning poster. From this results, we can conclude that students thought that clear meaning poster will be more interesting, however when they look at the posters in real condition they will be more interesting with poster that need some interpretation.

picture 1: unclear meaning poster

The majority of the correspondence more interest in social poster rather than propaganda and political poster and event poster. It can be concluded from this table:

A half of the correspondences focus in graphics when they look at poster, 40% focus in meaning, the else focus in language and a correspondence focus in all categories. 85,4% correspondence interest in poster with unique and complex graphics and almost a half of the correspondences thought that poster with simple graphics is common. Focus on the language, equal numbers of correspondence interested in poster that use English and Bahasa Indonesia (45,5%), the else choose Basa Jawa and Deutsch. 

In the amount textual context, 70,9% correspondence more interest in short text poster, 20% interest in medium text poster and the else interest in description text poster. The majority of the correspondences (74.5%)  interest in poster with one or two words only, 69% correspondence dislike poster with full of words and 47,3% correspondence didn’t interest in poster with no words. 

Conclusions

Posters that college students interested in have some criteria. First, the size of the poster that made college students more interest is poster size A3. Second, smooth color is the most interesting kind of color that college students like. Third, poster that dominant in graphics is more interesting rather than poster that dominants in text. Fourth, poster that has implied meaning is more interesting than poster that has clear meaning. Fifth, social poster is more interesting rather than event poster and propaganda and political poster. Sixth, creator should pay attention in graphics because majority of the students focus on the graphics when they look at a poster. Seventh, students interested in poster that use English or Bahasa Indonesia. So, it would be better if you make a poster using English or Bahasa Indonesia. Then, student will more interest in posters that has short text. At last, creative idea is the most important point in making interesting poster.