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.