Day 8 thur Sept 23rd

 

 

Critique CD Covers 

What we are looking at:

- Color

- Composition (placement of visual elements in 2d space...positive and negative space, rule of thirds)

- Image - subject matter

- Image - style

- Font - literal reading

- Font - style

 

 

 

Work on Proj 3 

- Part 1 should be done by the end of the day today

- Part 2 is due next Thur Sept 30th

Poster Project

Part 1

a) Write out your Movie idea! First pick a movie genre. (Horror, Sci-Fi, Romantic comedy) Then you need to figure out 'who' the antagonist and protagonist are, 'where' the movie takes place, 'when' the movie takes place, finally the 'what' and 'why' of the story.
b) Look up and download 10 examples of posters that inspire you

c) Compile a list of important information that needs to be on the poster including: movie title, main actors/actresses, film company, producers, date, credits, ext… (use the 10 examples you downloaded as a guide)

d) Collect a variety of imagery to work with for your poster

 * Make sure to find the largest images possible

Part 2

a) Create a template for your poster 11x17” at 180dpi

b) Put in guides for the unprintable boarder and for the middle

c) Create 3 different prototypes of your movie poster

Key things to Remember:

* Work on the poster template

* Duplicate important layers

* Save often

things to consider:
First you want to figure out a genre for your movie. Is it a Romantic comedy, Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Drama, Action, ect… Then look at and collect movie posters of that genre. Consider things like colors used, font type, text placement, use of actors/actresses images, are they full body or close up, what is their gesture.

Due

Thursday Sept 23rd – Part 1a,1b,1c,1d (due end of class)
Thursday Sept 30th - Parts 2 all three on Google Photos (due end of class)

Tuesday Oct 7th – Part 3 Best one Printed (due beginning of class)