Film Poster Design

These are some designs I am working on for a poster brief. I began by creating imagery from the text using variousprocesses including charcoal through letter-forms,smudging and erasing, photocopying, inverting,printing onto acetate, photographing on a lightbox, projecting using and OHP and layering acetate over windows. I also photographed lots of telephaph poles and wires which  appeared throughout the film and I felt captured the of themes disconnection, communication and isolation.

Penguin Book Covers

These handmade collages are put together with found ephemera which is a way of working that I  particulary enjoy. I prefer the original collages to printed copies as they better maintain the quality of the found materials. I think the colours I selected for the set of four books work well together. The restrictive nature of trying to make a collage to fit around the grid format of the penguin book cover is difficult, however it does help to create a sense of uniformity to the set.

Record Sleeve

Some ideas for my version of a record sleeve for Lana Del Rey's single, Video Games. I wanted to experiment with photoshop to further developed my ability to combine computer based image  manipulation with handmade work. I do prefer the final magery to look more handmade than computer generated so I drew the background image using chalk pastels, and then combined this with a hand drawn title 'Video Games' which loosly resembles a tattoo, and the related themes therefore of adolescence, love, rebellon, commitment, devotion, pain and disilluson. I need to improve my understandng of combining text with image. I began this process with the title but wasn't then sure how to best intergrate the artist's names. I had chosen a typeface that was reminscent of vntage typewriting but it still looked 'plonked on' , rather than invoking the nostalia I had hoped for. A more modern font and colour embedded the title better into the piece.

Quick! Collage!

Four Book Covers

These are purely computer manipulated, not using any handmade collage on this set....just layering imagery and scribbling the titles over! I like the choice of images as they create new meaning when placed together. The more simple layouts are more effective than the confusing busy ones. As I become more confident in layering and arranging imagery on photoshop I need to rely less on found images and more upon made images to further personalise the outcomes.  think the mages would be lifted by the introducton of shots of colour and some of the title text appears lost.

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