Visual Representation - Part 8

Progress Challenge 8: At The Movies

Produce a re-imagined graphic design of your favourite movie poster. You have been chosen to produce a stylised version of a movie poster for a film that has suddenly found a resurgent cult status in the popular culture. The film happens to be your favourite movie of all time.

The design is to be used not only on the marquee display where the movie will be showing, but will also see a broad web-based marketing push in the weeks preceding its much-anticipated theatrical re-release.

You are to create the design for the poster, and adapt this design for a series of online banner ads.

Brief:

Produce art for your movie poster in full-colour, or at least four (4) colours.

1. The poster will be A3 in size.
2. The poster must incorporate traditional materials in the production of the illustrative component, although elements such as typography can be done digitally if the student so chooses.
3. The final product may be refined using Photoshop, Illustrator or similar if you choose to do so.
4. Traditional techniques may include: • Black and white media • Charcoal • Coloured media • Designer’s markers • Gouache • Ink • Paint • Water or oil-based pastel • Pencil • Watercolour.
5. The design will then be adapted to fit three (3) standard web format sizes (shown below). These may be done either entirely digitally, or presented in the form of finished roughs.
6. Complete the above challenge and then click LINK 37 to upload. Click LINK 38 to discuss your work with other students on the forum.

Answer

My choice was The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle1 – a childhood favourite of mine about a Hopi Indian boy, whose name is Tutuvena2 - he is banished from the village for not obeying tribal law and setting a captive eagle free. The film was made in 1967, though I saw it on TV back in 1977 (c/o The Wonderful World of Disney on the Channel Nine Network here). What I found so special about the film was the authenticity of it – they used real Native American actors and the characters spoke their own language (so it was one of the more 'culturally sensitive' movies about Native Americans they made at the time). Even though I had never met any Native Americans back then, let alone Hopis, I had already fallen in love with this particular group of people, and all because of the film.

My concept is based on a remake about this cult classic, drawing on inspiration from some of the more recent Disney animated classics like Pocahontas3 and Mulan4, as well as some of the Japanese anime cartoons like Pokemon5 and One Piece6 that I watch in the mornings on TV. I do this in the hope that it would attract more viewers and give it some commercial appeal. The timeless classics with Disney Pixar and the modern day appeal of Manga and Anime will be good for ressurecting an old classic.

1 Couffer, J (1967): The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_the_Boy_and_the_Eagle; see also http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061904/;

2 Riordan, H (2009): Legend of the Hopi Boy and Eagle, in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMoIGw8ewkk;

3 Wikipedia (2015): Pocahontas (1995 film) in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas_(1995_film)

4 Chisholm, K (2015): Mulan in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120762/?ref_=tt_rec_tt

5 Pokemon/Nintendo (2015): Pokemon Official Site in http://www.pokemon.com/us/

6 Wikipedia (2015): One Piece in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece; see also the Official site - One Piece (2005) - http://www.onepiece.com.au/grandline/

Thumbnail sketches

2nd draft and Roughs

3rd drafts and Refined Sketches

4th Drafts/Poster Designs

 5th (and hopefully final) drafts/Poster designs