Museum Posters

OCA student Jereme Crow did a brilliant poster for the Natural History Museum http://www.redbubble.com/people/jereme/art/7006660-natural-history-raaagh.
How can I follow that? I was thinking of visiting the outpost Natural History Museum in Tring which is full of stuffed animals and birds, but I need to think differently so I chose the De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre near St Albans http://www.dehavillandmuseum.co.uk
I spent a morning there doing some sketches both for the fun of it and to generate some ideas

It's difficult to attract children, particularly teenagers, to small museums. The perception is that they will only be able to look. In my experience my children weren't keen on the idea of visiting a museum but enjoyed themselves when they got there and much of that was down to how much they could touch. I tried to focus on ideas which would make the idea more attractive. The middle plane is a Sea Vixen and it is possible for visitors to sit in the cockpit which I believe would be quite exciting.

Time is tight so I generate a lot of my ideas when I'm walking the dog or cycling to work. This means I don't have as many sketched ideas as I should but I did a few thumbnails;

My idea is to get the viewer to imagine themselves in the museum interacting with the exhibits. Three posters on the same theme, YOU, HERE...

The figure needs to be universal so that anyone could imagine it to be themselves. I was inspired by the child in the cereal advert who has a glow around them and the line they draw around figures at a crime scene on TV (ok that's a bit of a gory comparison)

Idea for Teenagers (13-16yrs) I would need to return to source and make a drawing of the cockpit  that better fits the A3 format for this to work.

For the adult audience

and for 5-9year olds:

I want the lettering orange with a bold black outline like the figure but I can't work out how to get my computer to do that so it looks a bit wishy washy. Maybe this is better?

The lettering needs to be fatter and bolder and more in keeping with the figure. The figure needs to look as though it is wearing more clothes that would appeal to a 5-9 yr old and the plane has got a bit fuzzy through reworking.