Drawing: Poster assignment

For this assignment we were told to make three poster for an animation that we have previously made, one being what the poster should be, another being an exaggereation and one which lies (implies that the animation is of a different genre). The animation I have chosen to make posters for is B.REX, where a scientist accidentally makes a bee transform into a monster, the B.REX (Bumblesaurus)

As it should be
In this poster the light emitted from the green substance makes shadows cast off the two characters. From this the audience can work out what the plot for the film is, as there is a kind of before and after thing going on in the poster as the characters at the front (a curious scientist and a small bee) act as the before; the two shadows at the back act as the after (the bee now a monster and the scientist cowering back). Since the shadows are from the light emitted by the green substance, we can work out that the green substance is the cause of this change. This poster appeals to a wide audience, specifically children.

The exaggeration
This poster is specifically aimed towards fans of action movies and is targeted towards a much older audience than the first poster is, as the art style is more mature and this poster contains blood and it has an overall violent feel to it. Also there is an explosion in the background, explosions are the calling card of action movies as it's a straight giveaway to the films genre, which is why explosions are featured in the background of so many poster, such as the poster for Mission Impossible 2 and the poster for The Worlds End

The Lie
This minimalist poster features the main character's shape as formed by many bees. The minimalist design of the poster (as inspired by the poster for the film Nebraska) gives the poster a more mature feel and gives the impression that this is an art house film. Unlike the other posters, which prominently show or imply a monster, this one it's just vaguely hinted (see the monsters head in the eye) and instead focuses more on the themes of regrets and consequences, as the main character appears to be consumed by bees, and the tagline states that the scientist will regret what he has done for a life time.

Drawing (14th February 2014)

In this session we mainly did our work in online, drawing the whole picture without taking the drawing utensil off the paper. each drawing was of a model doing the same pose except rotating after every drawing. at first all these drawing where separate, then next set of drawings had us draw all the figures in the same place, this time switching between graphite and a pen to draw. We did this for two full body poses, one was the model getting up a little bit between each pose and we also did rotations of hands head and feet. The multiple drawings on top of each other began to imply movement of the figure.

We then moved onto doing drawings in one line and going around the lines multiple times for the first three, the forth one had us look at the figure for 30 seconds then do a one line drawing, ten times round with our eyes closed

For the last task we did a full page drawing of the model in numerous poses (20) in one line, in  the same place and switching between graphite, pen and pencil in between each drawing 

Drawing (February 7th 2014)

First session after a long christmas break. Tom gave us back the marks that he thinks we will get, I got 66 (thats good). We were given the task to make some film posters based on an animation we have previously made, each poster describing the animation as a different genre. We also went to an exhibit that featured numerous film posters, mainly for old films, I think the most recent film poster they had was the God Father. Here are some notes that I made on these posters.

When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
Obviously an action film due to the explosions and the guns. The protagonist (the guy on top of the ladder) has been given the most poster space to establish his importance. we can tell that the female is the love interest just by the way she is looking at the protagonist (also because she's the only one not pointing a gun at the protagonist). Overall this is a very eye-catching poster

The Big Sleep (1946)
clearly a romance film we can tell just by looking just by how the characters are positioned. the lipstick on the man implies that the two have already kissed. This poster is using the films actors to gain peoples interest, the actors last names take up most of the poster and is likely going to be the first thing people notice.

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
From the poster alone I would say that this a horror. The lighting and dark figure gives the poster a sinister feel. we can tell that crimes have been committed as there is a wanted poster in the background. The sister hyde face being inside the dark figure, this tells us that the figure and the face are the same person and could be showing that this could be a darker alter ego of the character that is to be kept a secret.

On the Buses (1971)
the art style of the poster tells us that this is most likely a comedy (also because the poster contains the word laugh twice). much like The Big Sleep, this poster also relies on star power as the characters heads have been drawn in a lot more detail compared to their bodies (almost look photorealistic). we can tell what personalities the characters have just by how they look, for example, the person at the front who has his hands on his hips looks very serious and will probably not want to take part in whatever the other characters are doing.

Batman (1966)
Very cheesy looking poster with blatantly cut in characters. The main characters are live action and a cartoonish looking background, I guess this is so that the characters stand out more, whilst this is a very poor poster I feel it still works well as it perfectly matches the feel of the Adam West Batman series, People will definitely know what they are in for just by looking at this poster alone.

The Dark Knight (2008)
This wasn't at the exhibit, I felt like adding it any way just to compare with the other batman poster. This poster a much more darker and grittier tone, setting up an experience much different to that of Adam West's Batman. This poster was aimed more at adults as the only colours used are teal and orange (a lot less colour than the other poster)  and there is destruction going on in the background and it looks like an explosion has just happened. Whilst the film doesn't say its a Batman film we can still tell that it's part of the franchise because of the two batman logos, without them it would take us a lot longer to really that this is batman, especially since the title doesn't contain the word Batman like the other films did.