FINAL PROJECT MOVIE POSTER(s)
Your assignment is to create 3 different movie poster designs for a movie of your choice. You may chose any movie from any time period as long as it is an actual movie and not an imaginary film, novel, or something other than a movie. Television shows are not movies, for example. The three poster designs must be completed and are not “drafts” but finished works. Each must express a different idea and illustrate the content of the film in a different way. They must also seem stylistically diverse.
1 Poster must utilize a photograph(s) that you have taken and then integrated into the design.
1 Poster must utilize a 2-d artwork you have made and scanned and then integrated into the design.
1 Poster must be generated entirely from within the computer.
You must document your working process by creating a tumblr or using your flickr. I will assist you in this. Once you have created a tumblr you must post all exisiting versions of the poster for the movie you have chosen so that we can see your work is original and not a blatant rip-off of another artist. You must also post periodic drafts of your three designs so that we can see the progress of your work.
OBJECTIVES: A successful movie poster will utilize all of the design principles effectively. It will be visually engaging and have visual unity. You must create a balance between repetition and variety and think about the effect of color, directional forces, visual balance, and all of the things that we have studied.
Please chose an appropriate font for your works. All too often a doofy font can ruin a poster- we are not making advertisements for the afterschool Drama Club for example.
Think about distilling the ideas of the movie into an essential idea that can be represented simply. Remember you need a visual hook. Simplicity works better than complexity-this is not an artwork or painted version of the project. A poster must be graphic and simple and have an immediate appeal otherwise people will quickly move on.
Each poster will be worth 100 points. This project will be worth 300 points total. Each poster will be 11”x14” or 11”x17”. They must all be vertical in format. We will print them out on nice paper and mount them all to matt board with rubber cement.
