FILM POSTER - DESIGN DEVELOPMENT,

After considering which designs would work best, and once drawing them quite cleanly, I scanned them in and worked on them on Photoshop and Illustrator.

I AM GOING TO INCORPORATE THE SCARS INTO THE DRAWING ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE FILM.

POSTER COLOUR RESTRICTIONS 

BLACK WHITE AND ONE OTHER COLOUR.

 

Purple colours, all the same colour but different opacity.  

 

Thickening the lines, prefer this, stands out more and works better with the roughly cut edges of colour. Scar could be the eye brow?

 

The 6 hands holding onto their wands (which become the 6 scars representing it being the 6th film)

 

Turquoise colour works best. 

Definition for the webbed feet, shown through the 4 scars (4th film)

 

PROFESSOR UMBRIDGE.

posh tea cup shattered, 5 scars shown through shattered edges.

 

adding pink colour as background to represent Umbridge, she always wear pink. 

 

This one was quite a simple design, it was the first one I thought about when considering the poster designs. Snake obviously is a big part of the Chamber of Secrets, forked tongue splitting into the two scars (second film).BLACK, WHITE AND GREEN.

 

Illustration of Dobby for the 7th film. Seeing as he dies at the end of this film (deathly hallows), figured he  would not only be a good representation, but also visually appealing. 

 

added 4 scars, as the ears of Dobby, could 3 more go as little sprouts of hair? 

 

BROWN, chosen because of the colour of the piece of cloth he wears. 

 

3RD FILM. 

prisoner of azkaban, VISUAL REPRESENTATION - WEREWOLF.

 

the three scars - TEETH

BLUE , BLACK AND WHITE

After talking with John, I decided that I wanted to keep the text as minimum as possible on the posters. John had mentioned how if theyre limited edition, they should be pieces of art more than advertisements. I agree with this. 

I thought about just having 'HP' and then the name of the film, in a corner of the poster. PLAYING WITH TYPEFACES. 

 

 

Do I need the 'HP' ? 

I realised that all films have 'and the' before the name of the film, so I thought this could be a clear representation of the posters being for Harry Potter. It also makes them different, unique.

 

I like this typeface, I think it works well with the posters.

 

all 8 posters so far.

RE THINKING

 

Yellow for this poster? Prefer it, colour scheme works more with the collection of posters.Browns seemed a bit too dull.

DEATHLY HALLOWS PT 2

my initial idea was to have the two colours red and green, as the wands fighting each other. But that would make the colours black, white and two colours.

 

8 scars, forming the outline of a face? with the drawn eye of Voldemort and glasses from Harry Potter.

 

black and green?

I like the split down the middle, not sure if the scars ruin it slightly?

 

scars becoming the split?

 

 

red seems more evil? communicates the right message easier, with limited colours.

also as a set works better, there is already a green for the 'Goblet of Fire'. I think the poster is balanced now as well, with the scars splitting it down the middle.