Ratatouille

Look closely at the stars they are made of cheese and there are bite marks taken out the cheese. This film is about a rat  that becomes a famous chef while assisiting a man who is useless in the kitchen. I feel that this picture is ideal, it doesn't give much away. I only know what i know about this poster because i've watched the film. It would be interesting to hear the views about this poster of others that haven't watched the film. I think if i were to create a poster for this film, i would of straight away gone with the cheese idea.

Titanic

 What a boring film... ZZZZzzzzz. However, the figure where the ship shows through might not be immediately recognizable, but after a few seconds you will realize it is an iceberg. I'm not sure about this image. I asked myself, why the giant iceberg and the small ship?  The colour is fine, i'm happy with that. If i was to change anything it would be the image. I would go for something more sophisticated.

Scarface

 This poster is basic. It portrays blood and cocaine. The cocaine is what a lot of Cubans wanted and were being killed for in the film. The blood portrays the deaths. Also it was only a matter of time until Tony Montana was killed. I like this poster, it's a clever idea to fit the storyline into one small image. I don't think i could ever come up with a clever idea such as this. If i were to improve it, i think i would put a detailed dead body onto the poster to be honest.

Inception

I had to watch this film  times to understand the meaning of it. The use of a head within a head within a head also correlates directly to the storyline, though you would have to see it to know it. Dreams within dreams. This is a fascinating design, the image points out a maze. To gather an opinion on the film you would have to watch it. Personally i feel that this is the best minamilist poster idea for inception, as the maze image justifies the film, because the film is simply so confusing. If i were to come up with an idea to improve this poster, i would have to aim for something that symbolises the purpose or the meaning of this film.

Edward Scissorhands

This poster is a great one because it just gives the name and a simple image of two pair of scissors crossing. If you look more closely it even gives off the impression of being a hand. I do think this is appealing, but it'll only appeal to people that have actually watched the film. I do think this poster would work if it was black and white, but it wouldn't be attractive. If i were to design a poster based on this film i would try and improve it and create something new. What i would create, i'm not so sure as it would take time and planning.

Minimalist poster idea

Shottas - A film set in Jamaica, a film i've watched numerous times and a film i never seem to get bored of. It's become a favourite. It will be difficult to see what idea i come up with to make it minimalist, but it's also a challenge.

Minimalist posters

With Lance we are now moving on to minimalist posters. Like the logo design we must design our own. Minimalist posters are posters but with minimal detail, 3/4 colours and very specific.

Here is an example of a minimalist poster.

Basically in the filmthey have characters named after colours. Instead of including each characters their colours have been inputting on the poster.

Horror poster design

I created this during a lesson with Lance. Above is a horror photo which was taken during a lesson with Steve. I created this using photoshop.
I'm proud of my creation but from feedback received the blue should of been yellow.

Horror portraits

Horror portraits

We were set a task with Lance which also related to Steve as we'll be using photography equipment.

For Lance we had to research scary posters and identify what makes a horror poster scary?

What makes the font scary? and then design our own.

A professional make up artist called Kate came into college to show us how we could turn each other into Zombies.

I opted out of having make up on my face. Kate brought different colored face paint. Kate showed us a method how to make blood.

We used thick chocolate sauce and red food coloring.

Later on, while we were all ready and set to go, we went down to the photography lab to take some shots of our 'Zombie' classmates posing for our Horror posters for Lance.

I think this went well, it was certainly a fun and entertaining lesson.

Canon 5d camera and Green screen light that lights up our face so it reflects green.

These are some of the photo' i took with my partner Pete.