3D Movie Poster
Brief - You are each being asked to produce a poster to celebrate and promote the film you have been given. Identify the themes, story arcs, genre and personality of your film and produce a poster for it, that communicates some of it's aspects. Think about how you provide the poster's audience with some experience of the film before they even cast an eye across the big screen. AVOID the contemporary trend of showing the stars face and giving away the entire plot. Your film's not in 3D but its poster will be.
Instead of illustration, photomontage or the us of existing fonts you will build/construct your poster. You will use lighting, perspective and any other 'real world' tricks that you can muster to create your poster. You can use paper, card, clay, plasticine, found objects, knitting... anything you can think of, to make your poster.
Your final outcome should be presented as a photograph on your website. A small amount of photoshop adjustment is acceptable but using software to create integral poster elements or effects is not.
Instead of illustration, photomontage or the us of existing fonts you will build/construct your poster. You will use lighting, perspective and any other 'real world' tricks that you can muster to create your poster. You can use paper, card, clay, plasticine, found objects, knitting... anything you can think of, to make your poster.
Your final outcome should be presented as a photograph on your website. A small amount of photoshop adjustment is acceptable but using software to create integral poster elements or effects is not.
Film - Oh, Mr Porter
A Will Hay Movie - Directed by Marcel Varnel - Released in 1937 - Genre - Comedy
The film is about a man named Willie who gets sent to be the new station master at a town called Buggleskelly in Northern Ireland, a town notorious for getting rid of it's station masters very quickly. On the way he learns about the legend of One Eyed Joe, who was "killed by the railway" and supposedly cursed it ever since his death, so no one visits after dark. When he arrives at the station, he finds it delipidated, and manned by and old deputy stationmaster named Harbottle, and a young porter named Albert. He finds out that the pair survive by stealing from the railway for food, which Albert calls "living off the land". In an attempt to sort out the station, Willie attempts to organise an excursion to Connemara, and goes to the local pub in an attempt to sell tickets. After a fight breaks out about which town the excursion should go to, Willie stumbles into the in keeps back rooms and come across a man who calls himself Joe, who offers to buy all the tickets for an away game of the local football team. The train leaves at 6 the next morning rather than at 10, like it should have, and then the train vanishes, causing Willie to loose his job. When his co-workers talk about a tunnel on a disused train line, Willie attempts to go and look for the train to try and get his job back. The trio find the train hidden in the blocked off tunnel, and quickly find out that the football team, which everyone had said doesn't exist, is actually a team of gunrunners who are smuggling weapons over the boarder. They escape from the gunrunners up into Old Joe's mill, and hitch the carriages containing the guns and criminals to their engine, Gladstone, and speed away from the boarder. Albert climbs on top of the roof of the carriage with a shovel and hits anyone who sticks their head out of a window to keep them inside the train. After throwing a message to a passing station master, the authorities are alerted and they reroute the tracks to a station that is filled with police officers waiting to arrest the gunrunners. After the Gladstone crashes at the station, it blows up, leading the trio to take off their hats in respect.
A Will Hay Movie - Directed by Marcel Varnel - Released in 1937 - Genre - Comedy
The film is about a man named Willie who gets sent to be the new station master at a town called Buggleskelly in Northern Ireland, a town notorious for getting rid of it's station masters very quickly. On the way he learns about the legend of One Eyed Joe, who was "killed by the railway" and supposedly cursed it ever since his death, so no one visits after dark. When he arrives at the station, he finds it delipidated, and manned by and old deputy stationmaster named Harbottle, and a young porter named Albert. He finds out that the pair survive by stealing from the railway for food, which Albert calls "living off the land". In an attempt to sort out the station, Willie attempts to organise an excursion to Connemara, and goes to the local pub in an attempt to sell tickets. After a fight breaks out about which town the excursion should go to, Willie stumbles into the in keeps back rooms and come across a man who calls himself Joe, who offers to buy all the tickets for an away game of the local football team. The train leaves at 6 the next morning rather than at 10, like it should have, and then the train vanishes, causing Willie to loose his job. When his co-workers talk about a tunnel on a disused train line, Willie attempts to go and look for the train to try and get his job back. The trio find the train hidden in the blocked off tunnel, and quickly find out that the football team, which everyone had said doesn't exist, is actually a team of gunrunners who are smuggling weapons over the boarder. They escape from the gunrunners up into Old Joe's mill, and hitch the carriages containing the guns and criminals to their engine, Gladstone, and speed away from the boarder. Albert climbs on top of the roof of the carriage with a shovel and hits anyone who sticks their head out of a window to keep them inside the train. After throwing a message to a passing station master, the authorities are alerted and they reroute the tracks to a station that is filled with police officers waiting to arrest the gunrunners. After the Gladstone crashes at the station, it blows up, leading the trio to take off their hats in respect.
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Movie posters
Comedy movie posters
30's-40's movie posters
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Talk about composition of movie posters. Talk about rule of thirds and graphic design rules for composition and layout.
The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to break an image down into thirds, both horizontally and vertically, so that you have nine parts. The main reason artists used the rule of thirds is to discourage and prevent placement of the subject at the centre, or prevent a horizon from appearing to divide the picture in half. |
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Stage 2 - Exploration -
Sculpture artists
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Calum Colvin
Colvin's art is incredibly interesting in the way he utilises forced perspective to create his paintings. The use of every day objects in the sculptures is a very creative way to imply subtext into the pieces without being too obvious. I would like to try and incorporate some of these elements into the background of my poster.
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Wilfrid Wood
Wood's sculptures are very cartoonish and stylised, bringing forth prominent aspects of their personality in simple but effective ways. This simple but pronounced style could easily be used to reflect a comedic element if I were to include figures in my poster.
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Polly Becker
Becker's use of combining small household objects and old photographic portraits creates a nostalgic feel to her work. These small sculptures mimic independent silhouettes, and reflect a playful character and personality through her work. This use of old and new and combining of objects could be an interesting aspect if I included it in my work.
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Chris Sickles (sculpture/clay/plasticine)
Sickles' sculptures are stylistic and full of personality which easily helps portray the tone and emotions of each of the pieces. His combination of plasticine sculptures and crafted backgrounds created a stylised difference between the foreground and landscape, which is an interesting element I might want to incorporate into my piece.
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Paper artists
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Jeff Nishinka
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Su Blackwell - pop up
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Textiles artists
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Jo Hamilton
Nathan Vincent
Alexandra Kehayoglou
I feel like utilising Kehayoglou's style to create the background of my film poster would help keep within the vein of the textiles focused piece and also set apart the foreground effectively. |
Olek
Felt Mistress
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Textiles/embroidery experimentation - First experimentation in the style of Alexandra Kehayoglou. Photo from Pendle Hill. I really enjoy Kehayoglou's style and way of creating backgrounds, so I thought I would experiment with her techniques and mediums while creating a landscape that could potentially be utilised as a background for my piece. |
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Previous knitting examples -
I have some experience with knitting push toys and 3d objects, but I haven't attempted anything as complex as a train yet. I have also made some attempts into learning crochet as well, experimenting with different types of stitching and attempting to make a small octopus, but i am still very much a beginner.
Knitting Process -
I initially started my process by knitting all of the black parts of the train, as the green wool I ordered hadn't arrived yet. When the green wool finally arrived I proceeded to complete the main part of the train as quickly as possible.
I had issues with the construction process, as some of the kitted pieces were too big for the cardboard skeleton underneath, and so required some adjusting. The knitted footplate stitched on unevenly, and made the train appear lopsided from the front.
I experimented with Brusho dyes on a cheap linen fabric to create a varied background for the piece. Sprinkling on the dye crystals and then flicking water on top created a speckled effect which emulated the feel of grass. Combined with my previous textiles experimentation, I thought these would work well as a backdrop for my train.
For the text, I realised I couldn't experiment with my floating stuffing idea as I had no way of acquiring thin wire in time for the deadline, so I decided to crochet the title and suspend it from a knitting needle above the piece. I followed these YouTube videos to create the letters, and used a grey double knit yarn and a 3mm crochet needle.
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Final piece
