OUGD503 - Studio Brief 01 - LCA Film Society Poster Concept and Design

Focusing on colour as one of the main aspects of the design, I wanted to take an illustrative approach to this brief as this would allow me to experiment in a medium that I don't often use within my work. From my research I used a still from a particularly central scene in the film (below) to work from.

From this still I created a rough sketch as guide:

And then used the guide to create a simple vector drawing in Adobe Illustrator:

Colour was then added:

And the appropriate text in a selected typeface:

After a critique with peers it was agreed that design did need a central feature to fill the empty space, however the lamp on the table should not be included as depicted in the film and the original sketch. As an alternative it was suggested that a silhouette of the Birdman character could be included so as to further reference the film and allow the poster to be more accessible to an audience who had not already seen the film.