Professional Practice: Poster Design

So for my poster designs i chose to keep them simple, i wanted them to be as minimal as possible but still allow the audience to understand the concept of the film, even it isirst went forward with Trick of the Dark as i had an idea in mind to express the brief outlook of what the film stands for. I chose to illustrate it myself through Photoshop & though the film is predominantly focusing on the psyche of the main protagonist, as well as focusing on the dark areas i thought keeping the poster vibrant would catch the audiences attention in which you see below my final design.

As you can see the poster depicts a hole in the cave ceiling revealing a spotlight shining on a broken television. The point being there is no signal inside this cave, there is nothing working at its full capacity, the television represents the mind, though colour may still be prominent they represent the stand by function of old TV'S as that is what the main protagonist is going through. he is in state of uncertainty, confusion, nothing is quite right. to fix his mind & gain a clearer picture is the main focus of this story. It also ties in with the ending, a side note would be the way in which i have scratched the title into the side of the rock, i thought using a bold colour like red was self explanatory due to the setting, the outline of white adds to the scratched effect. The red represents the blood of the protagonist clawing at his own mind, pushing to try and find a way out of his depression.

The next poster was for the 2nd film i am on board with, It is called Hope. So i found the design for this one harder than the other as the concept is more otherworldly, i tried a few drawn designs but could not come to a final drawing i liked, i felt like i was taking parts of the film 7 simply illustrating over them which was less than impressive to behold. I then thought that i needed to take the experimentation down a notch in which i went for a very minimal design which you will find below.

You will be able to see the similarity between the two posters here as i am using items to represent the main focus of each story. In this case time is of the essence as the main protagonist of this story is slowly losing her life in hospital after a car collision sent her into a dream like state. I chose a very dark and bleak colour contrast for the hourglass & background, this helped the emergency lights for the background really stand out. instead of sand in the hourglass i chose blood, Though that might be seen as too graphic, i still went forward with the idea as it had more of an impact aesthetically & will help when drawing in the audiences attention. I wanted the text to appear ghostly & transparent to represent the otherworldly aspects & give the impression of limbo, its small ideas like this that brought these two posters together.