"Stockholm Drive" Showtime 8:30

After a little...and a lot of tweeking of font, arrangement, and color, I have my final designs for my three movie posters.  I also ended up adding credits to the bottom of the posters and a rating for some of them.

Entering the movie Biz

 

I began with inserting my photo choices into illustrator, then I typed the title, actors, and tagline in the initial layout that I wanted. After I had the layout I went through looking at different fonts and how it interacted with the imagery, how it would stand out, and the mood the font gave for the movie. Above are my initial layouts.

From the Beginning

After looking at my collection of movie poster research I sketched at least 2 rough ideas for each category: Romance, Thriller, and Comedy.  The title for all three movie posters is to me the same "Stockholm Drive" was the title for the assignment. Looking off of my sketches I started going through my photography trying to find imagery I could use.

For Romance:

For Thriller:

For Comedy:

The Making of a Movie

Our final project for Vis Com I is to create movie posters. First things first...research. So I researched movie posters with prevalent Typography. Above are the ones I was most influenced by.

Essence

Above is the final design for my poster of Saul Bass with my final logo in the bottom left corner.  I continued with the positive negative type on the black tripes adding more phrases and making the type "cut outs" as if u can see through it, thus having being white in front of the white, and if it's in front of the orange, the font looks orange.  I also kept my initial idea of where the bio should live in his face, giving subtle shading and line to his image.  I chose his bio font to be cracked.Saul Bass didn't only work with blks and whites with positive and negative shapes, he also used bright vivid colors, thus me choosing orange for a stripe and yellow for the logo.

Representation

After I created the logo for his name I searched through photos/representations of him, looking for one I could use in my poster.  I found a design representation of him that looked great.  It has irregular positive and negative shapes, perfect to represent the essence of Saul Bass. I live traced it and used it as the main piece for the poster, blowing it up to the full size the poster would be and then I would have the type of the bio live in it.  Below are my poster/bio experiments.

Besides his image being positive and negative, I knew I wanted to do something of the sort with the type too. Which is why I initialy put the white "Film Design" on one of the black stripes.
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Strong Influence

From those font lists, and arrangement experiments, I narrowed down my choices and began working on creating a logo for/of "Saul Bass". Below are my beginning ideas and progression.