Project 2

Almost finished with Project 1 finally. Should be ready to turn in this weekend, I’m basically just fine tuning at this point, and also trying human figures in some of the letters to see how it fits, but as of right now I’m leaning more towards staying with architecture and organic shapes in nature.

Now on to the second project that I’ll be starting while fine tuning the first one! Originally I had posted about wanting to do vintage style horror movie posters or minimal horror movie posters.

Then I found this::

(I believe his website can be found here.)


And I thought that was pretty sweet.

I would love to do 4 posters for this project (sized smaller probably around 11x17…maybe a little bigger) in a similar way to have them be displayed together.

For this I want to take 4 of my favorite horror(ish) movies – Halloween, Donnie Darko, Psycho, and The Exorcist – and then choose a main character from each and have the visuals show the character, and the surroundings of the poster embody the mood, traits, desires, or sort of inner workings of that character.

Halloween:: Michael Myers
Donnie Darko:: Donnie Darko
Psycho:: Norman Bates
The Exorcist :: Regan MacNeil

I chose these characters in particular because I think they all have some sort of back story, well known attributes, weaknesses, or types of problems that I could find many ways to display these things visually. 

As of now, I’m still planning on displaying the movie’s title on the poster, but probably smaller than the name of the actual character that I am portraying because I want the character and their traits to be the main focus.

I want to stick with more of a blocky graphic look like the example I found has, and have each poster only make use of a few carefully chosen colors. 

I plan on using these original posters to mirror the color schemes that were used, into my own posters.