Colour Poster Experimetns

Here I have decided to experiment with different way my final posters could look with this lot I have looked at Colour photos with black and white touches.

This is the first one I decided to create, being an experiment but also a response to the designer Olly Moss. what i have chose to do is make all of the images inside the torso of a orange tone colour this likes to Olly Moss' pieces because for the posters I look into he chooses the same colour palette of orange for the posters even though they had different subject matters that looks as though they where in a set.

Olly Moss

Here are some other alternative designs. With both of the posters on the left and the right, I have chose to do experiment with having only one image out of all of them colour. This I really like as that image becomes the focal point of the piece.
I perforate one on the right because it is not to much like the one on the left, it fits in well with the rest of the piece unlike then on the left.

History of Film Posters

The earliest forms of advertising for movies included hand painted crates and sandwich boards. The turn of the 20th Century saw a world with a very high illiteracy rate. Posters or advertising for any entertainment needed to have vibrant colors and pictures and a limited amount of words, so that the advertising could be appreciated by a large number of people.

Movie posters are the bait that lures you into the theater. Motion pictures began more than 100 years ago, and today it is a multi-billion dollar industry. Movies and movie posters go hand in hand in helping the public identify their favorite films and stars.

At first, movies used advertising paper sizes from vaudeville, fairs, and the circus. With the growth of movie theaters, there was a need for more specialized sizes. This was when they created inserts and lobby cards.

In the early days of film, there were no movie stars on movie posters because most actors in film chose to be anonymous. The producers were thrilled, because they believed they could control the medium as long as there were no stars.

By 1910, the studios began to receive mail addressed to these nameless actors. The public demanded to know the names of the actors and actresses.

Producers soon realized that they could make much more money by acknowledging the stars that would bring the people into the theater, and so posters changed. Posters at this point reflected the status of the leading lady and leading man. The public would soon recognize the star status simply by looking at the movie poster. The size and placement of the print told the public just how “big” a particular star was. Actors and actresses took heed of this and started to become more powerful in demanding their due.

With more films being produced and more movie houses being built, another advertising medium became popular – the billboard.

With the growth of the automobile, producers recognized that these billboards could be seen from great distances when traveling in a car. 

The 1920’s were considered the golden age of the silent movie. Beautiful movie palaces replaced the movie theater. The posters of old were replaced by artistically aesthetic movie posters. Well-known artists were commissioned to design movie poster portraits of leading stars. 

The posters of the 1920’s were specifically designed with portraits of the stars, the movie title, and the star’s name. There was an occasional slogan or two, but most of the emphasis was centered on the movie stars.

With the 1930’s came the Great Depression. Many feared that movies would suffer during this time because people would not want to spend their money to go to the movies but the exact opposite happened. The Depression made people want to escape reality, and movies became even more popular.

During the 1940’s, war movies dominated the screen. 

In the late 1940’s, we entered a new arena: the age of television. By this time, TV had attracted a large number of movie goers, so the studios responded by reducing the number of films made

With the coming of the 1950’s, and to fight the popularity of television, movie studios created more fantasy films. The studios that once produced the war movies were now making science fiction, comedy and grade “B” drive-in movies. Although the drive-in had been around since 1933, it reached its peak during the 1950’s with over 4,000 screens in the United States alone. 

The coming of the 1960’s brought the boomer generation to their teen years. There were so many children from the post-war baby boom that a lot of the movies were very “teen” oriented. Teen idols from the world of rock and roll crossed into movie stardom. Elvis Presley became very popular at this time, not only for his music, but his movies. There were also a lot of “beach movies” with Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. Action movies also became very popular and we saw the introduction of the infamous double agent, 007, James Bond.

The 1970’s was actually a launching pad to the era of the blockbusters of the 1980’s. Movies like The Godfather, Rocky, Star Wars and Star Trek were born. Although the posters of this time continued the use of photography, drawing and painting styles were sometimes used.


The 1980’s was the age of special effects, which was the key to the success of The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, Back to the Future, Batman, ET, Ghostbusters and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Until the 1980’s, most movie theaters featured only one movie in their theater at a time. All their advertising space was centered on that one movie. With the 1980’s came theaters which featured several movies, and therefore, the lobby advertising had to be divided equally for all the films. As a result, “mini sheet” posters became popular because they could be produced in smaller sizes.

With the 1990’s came the computerization of special effects. Because of this, the 90’s brought two of the biggest money making films in history, Jurassic Park and Batman Forever.

Health and Safety

For Computers :

Take care of your eyes - cover your eyes briefly will give them a break from the light.

Occasionally shift your eyes to an object that is in the distant making sure that you hold your focus for a moment and then return to the computer screen. Repeat this at least three times every hour.

Take a Break - Take short breaks every two hours and try to concentrate on something that focuses your attention away from the screen.

Good posture - Make sure that your spine and head are kept upright.

Make sure that the top of the screen is at your eye level.


Lino Cutting:

Always cut away from your body.

Never leave a cutting tool lying around.

When printing wear an apron.

When printing put newspaper on the tables.

When finished printing make sure to tidy up and wash up all of the equipment used.

Bat Signal

For my final pieces I had decided that to make a obvious connection to batman i needed to design and make my own bat signal.
This I had been created in Adobe Illustrator


I started off by creating a circle.

 Then I created the light beam for the signal with the pen tool. I then coloured in circle with a light grey to look like the top.

For the light beam I chose to use a gradient colour so it faded out at the bottom to look like the actual signal.

the last thing i had to do was make the batman logo shape this I done by using one of my drawings of the logo and then tracing it over with the pen tool.

Exhibition Space

 The space that we are using for the exhibition is bright has high ceilings and natural lighting is large, open and spacious. They are made up of MDF boards that are clipped together and put up all the way around the room.  

My two boards are located in the back right-hand side corner. 

The Backgrounds - Final Pieces

To start off the first poster's background all I did was to write the letters HA in a simple way as shown.

I created this in Adobe Illustrator using the pen tool. What I was hoping to achieve was to have text that looks like it has been written in a way due to rage or insanity repetitively. 

I then copied them as combined and then pasted it on top of the other ones but slightly to the right so you could see both sets.













I then once again added another layer of the text but even further apart. This has started to look like how I wanted, but felt that it was missing one thing.












what I did was to add one final line onto the middle, this ended up balancing the whole piece out.

I had then managed to achieve the text look that I wanted.

For the next background, I chose to have the bats, these have also been create in Adobe Illustrator what i did was to simply draw a shape of a bat.

 Then using the same shape I started copy and pasting them over the top of each other so I could make it start to look like bats coming out of a cave.





This then built up like this so when i fill it with colour some of them will be blended together to cause a black mass.












The next thing I did was to add a few more bats that where separate from the others so that it looked like they where flying of into the sky.




                                     






By adding the fill you can see already that it is starting to look better than just having the outlined version.
Due to the rough outline at the bottom on the previous one i decided to make a box and fill in in black so that bats then look like they are gradually flying up and away from each other.

Here shows the end colour I choose for my second poster.






But there had also been some other options shown below.  

Experimental Pieces - Final Major Project

Poster 1:

To start of some of my experimental pieces I took this silhouette image of myself wearing a Batman mask to create the double exposure I am going to have to remove all of the background other than the main body that i want for the end piece.  

To do this i simply opened the image up in Photoshop and then used the quite selection tool and highlighted the areas that I wanted, then went to select, Inverse and then backspace it left me with this. 

The next thing for me to do was start to adding the next layer of images, to do this i simply when to file, place... and selected my image.

Once I placed my image i had to make sure that it fitted all the way over the batman silhouette then in the tool bar section i went over to the drop box and chose the option 'Screen' and it turned out like this. I was not happy with the way this looked because you couldn't see the nice reflection on the face and didn't want to just end up using one image in my final piece. 

From just using the eraser tool i removed all of the part of images that i didn't feel i wanted to keep. i then added the next two images in the same way as the first one, erased all of the parts i didn't want and then pieced it together so they almost look like one image. The last thing that i had to add was the clouds on the main face so that it all ended up looking like one image.