Posters series 6

Cinematic posters

This series is inspired by one of my all time favourite places, which is from the cinema, considering the fact I work in the cinema I wanted to create a bit of a cinematic series of posters. Considering that is one of the leisure industry that has been highly impacted by COVID 19, because like swimming pools, Gyms etc Cinemas were closed throughout lockdown and when they started to reopen they have drastically struggled to lure the people into watch a film because of the COVID 19 scares.

Here is my next series of posters:

Lights, COVID, ACTION!

These posters are inspired by the cinematic curtains you have before you watch a showing of a movie in the cinema, because I wanted to create these posters like they were the beginning of a pandemic kind of thing. 

                      

*Poster 1: The cinema curtains

I did this design by drawing on illustrator an image of cinematic curtains, dragged the file to photoshop as a PSD file, which I then let the magic do the talking, with the spotlight in the centre of the poster. I did that by making a yellow circle on illustrator, this took a bit of a play to get it looking how it does currently, I thought to begin with it would be to do with the different types of blend modes on the selected layer, but no it is much simpler than that- all I did was reduce the opacity of the circle shape and hallelujah! the perfect posters!

*Experiments

these experiments are basically of the same design but created in various different tweaks and tryouts!

*More experiments!

Here is the next section, again using the same "Lights, Camera, action"  pun/joke- seeing as in the film industry they say a lot lights camera action. 

(Ideas Generation)

Here is the best idea ever for a poster!!

This here is a wooden clipboard and this is what this next section of posters is based on! Hope you like what you're about to see. 

 *Poster 1

(Black backdrop with clipboard!)

This poster design is simplistic and works well, but I think the black background loses the clipboard a but where the black background colour is very dominant unless you look closely you can see i used a slightly different shade of black for the clipboard, I think a coloured background would be better for this design so it lifts the image in the foreground and make it almost jump out at you. 

*Poster 2

(A whole new discovered style!)

These red ones are my favourite posters out of this entire series of posters!! I love the use of the red background how it brings out the clipboard and how it makes the type stand out!! I think the simplicity of these posters work really well and as they say simpler the better. I also like the fact the typography has elements of asymmetric and symmetric line arrangement for the type on this poster where it works efficiently as I have made the symmetric type on the clipboard because I wanted it to be legible because when you see writing on a clipboard a lot of the time it is written I. white and written symmetrically where as the text amongst the red backdrop is asymmetric alignment which I think works really well especially with the two posters below, because the clipboard is open about to click, looking like the type is following the top half of the clipboard- the part aiming diagonally.  Mind you, I didn't do that intentionally but it works really fluently now that i'm scrutinising my designs. Happy Accidents are the best ones, you have the most fun experimenting- when you experiment you get discovery, just like science! accept more fun and less forensics!!

  

*Posters 3 and 4

Here is people's words and feedback below:

"OMG Saffy, they are so good!"- Alfie (Friend outside uni)

"Very Good!" - Clare (Friend outside uni)

"Those are great, I really the one on the right! it's really eye catching and I love the little 

  jokes on there!" - Kyle (Friend outside uni)

PS-  Thank you all for your words... I hope you guys don't mind me using your words on this blog, I value your opinions as an art student student and means a lot to receive this feedback!

*Poster 5

(A red and black experimental poster)

This poster was designed after growing to like the colour contrast with the black and red, the red being the background for blackened imagery works very well together and in this case the red is like the silhouette for the clipboard as well as a background- it was quite an interesting experiment to carry out. 

*Poster 6

(Colour expiration!)

For this design, just plain and simply experimented with colour- playing with the gradient tool via photoshop just to see what happens, quite frankly It has the colourful factor but for me this isn't a favoruiteable experiment on there because I feel the colour was used for the sake of it, I don't see the significant meaning to the colour besides the fact COVID 19 had a thing for rainbows for sometime during lockdown! But I don't think it works for the cinematic aesthetic personally, it looks more like a clipboard that's been pelted by paintballs honestly... but despise all that it was fun trying!

*Posters 7 & 8

(Collaborated imagery!)

These three poster experiments I incorporated both the clipboard and the cinematic curtains together to create the film aesthetic which I really liked the top two pieces I kept my cinematic curtains, saved the clipboard as a paintbrush and just quite frankly splattered that on the curtains, on a separate layer. these two pieces were the turnouts! 

*Poster 9

(Another experiment!)

This is the finale poster to this section to the series! where I combined the clipboard and the cinematic curtains... it works for the use of the theme and the cinematic aesthetic which I like, but to be fully honest this isn't my all time favourite design on this series, I almost think a little too much is going on at once, but was still good to give this experiment a try.

*Poster 10

(Cinematic social distancing poster)

Now this is the final poster for the series! I did this poster based on the social distancing aspects of COVID 19, I created this poster by drawing the cinematic chairs from my local cinema and then let the catchy slogan do the talking... if you get my pun! I wanted to do a poster design based on the Social distancing as this is a big aspect of COIVD 19 and is one of the reasons people are fearing the extraordinary experience to watch movies on the big screen! This poster I like, I think it works well, I like the blue background for this image it has enabled the cinema seats to stand out and I like the white typography, I really like the "Catch me if you can" I like the joke made there because COVID 19 is contagious and there is a movie called catch me if you can, which made this poster all the more better!