Background for Poster 2 (of 5) Face of Horror

The face background was actually my first background idea to create with charcoal. I wanted to have this crinkled, old, saggy eyed, ugly face filling the screen full of character but lacking in life. I wanted it to represent fear that much that it would give a feeling of coldness at a mere glimpse. What I thought would be more effective would be to have this face expressing fear and bleakness. Not a face full of wrath and hate. He's not evil. The face you see is not a villain. He is a victim. To create the face I used thick charcoal to create the deep shadows in the face and the blackness in the background and to create the eyes and the whole right side of the face. After outlining this and creating the shadows and skin tone and going deeper into the details I'd use a thinner piece to make the intricate details and to create the facial expression. I used a white chalk pencil to put glow and depth into the darker parts and to show the bony parts that needed to be visible in the shadows of the face and the darker side.

Poster 1 (of 5) First and Edited

Here is original and also the edited, completed version of my first poster. As I said about the drawing in an earlier post I added a lens flare and light beams shooting through the trees. As I said before I did not how to do this with charcoal but this edited version is actually as effective as I'd hoped. The lens flare works well behind the text, in the corner of the page. It gives hope to the dark, black and white image. Like, in this darkness and mystery there will always be hope. The glare I created does indeed give the image that extra element that I was looking for and hoping for. I then added other little edits to the piece such as putting a glow round the slogan to make it stand out more. Before all of these edits the poster looked plain and nowhere near as impressive. Even smaller scale things such as putting a bright outer glow to the slogan makes a world of difference to making a brilliant poster that will stand out. After these changesI had made; I am impressed with and proud of the finished piece.

Rivet Manchester logo

To advertise an exhibition there needs to be a gallery or a museum (obviously). I needed to know what would be needed to create such a logo by looking at museums and galleries logos such as Tate, Bluecoat, Bauhaus etc etc. So I wanted to make it simple but almost professional. So this I came up with 'Rivet Manchester'. It sounds real but also emotionless and almost characterless. It is subtle.

Background for Poster 1.

This is the first charcoal drawing I did. It is miles inferior to the majority of the other charcoal drawings but I like it, very much in fact. The idea came to me when my initial tagline was to tell people that they should come to this place where it takes you back to the past. I wanted an image that would set the scene straight away. A picture that would tell you where exactly I was heading with this. At a first glance on the computer and in my sketchbook it looks almost forgettable but what it represents and also the edited and complete version of this is effective and meaningful. I originally wanted to have light beams in the right hand corner of the image. I actually didn't really know how to portray this properly with charcoal so the edited version has a photoshopped lens flare which sums up what I was trying to do. The idea of a forest came to me when the mystery element and the darkness became to the most important element of the project and what exactly I wanted to give to the audience. That sense of mystery. A looming forest was perfect for that.

Dates, booking and why you should come to the show

Here you can see a date and a fictional website in the typeface 'OptimusPrinceps'. It is a font I dow loaded off the internet. AsI said in another post I very much wanted to create my own typeface but I could not create a typeface which was as suitable as a typeface like such for the project I was doing. I very much like this typeface, it's long, harrowing, it has an edge to it and it is the exact type suitable for such an old fashioned horror project. As you can see in the actual posters the date takes up a lot of the space on the posters. It's highly visible and it is important. If it is unknown why I created a date for my posters; I'm advertising an exhibition.

A Cinema Deathly title

I wanted to create my own typeface for this project and even made a couple of attempts at some classic handwritten suitable pieces but was proven inconclusive. It's not that I gave up that I used the typeface above for my campaign it just looked sot only suitable but it looked bold and strong enough to use and although it wasn't the classic handwritten typed that I initially hoped for; it turned out to look better after all of my research. It's modern, bold, it draws the eye in, it's well drawn and structured and it has worked very well in the course of the whole project. This is a reliable type. One of the reasons it works so well for me and my campaign is the fact that I wanted an edge to the type in the posters and I wanted something different. After using the gradient tool to give the text more character and depth and to stray it away from flat black I used a plain lasso tool to scribble an edgy crack in the strong text which looks almsot like a lighting strike and is effective in it's imperfection.

Taxonomy of the Apple iPhone

This poster is one of my favourite that I have researched. It is very good to look at and looks incredibly well put together. The way that this diagram has been placed together gives you an illusion of a complex, futuristic map of information. Like a New York subway map. This piece is not just a diagram representing how the Apple iPhone has been made what's involved in the making, it's a timeline. The diagram is very complex and excruciatingly informative.