Negotiated Project

Negotiated Project Brief

The main focus of this project is pure experimentation, as my main source of inspiration covers both this project and the next. My inspiration for both the projects is the theme of the monster movie genre, the golden age of Hollywood that span from the 1930s to the 1960s, as I have always had a great love for the stop motion films of Ray Harryhausen in particular. For this first project though I have also chosen to look at the posters from the sword and sandal genre that spanned roughly the same time period, but was eventually replaced with the spaghetti western genre. I will also choose from one of the famous Greek poems to work from in this way, most likely the Labors of Heracles or Theseus and the Minotaur. I will also be looking at ways to recreate the effects the ancient Greek vases and pots, as these are amongst the most famous of story telling methods in Greece.

The aim of the project is to experiment in this way of working with text and to come up with some prototype designs of my own, three or four final designs on A4, as brief designs which could I go further with in the future. I will be working with pens and pencils, collage, stencil work, Photoshop and Illustrator.

I will also be researching many posters of the genre and trying out with texts and compositions of my own, also practicing with different titles, designs and slogans for the advertising of such posters. Designing the characters, environments and other items effectively will be key to achieving the overall mood of the images, which are to be scary, but also slightly humorous and entertaining at the same time, a trait that all the originals have.

A few examples of the many famous posters I used in my references.