1. 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.
2. 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. 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.