Poster Refinement

Scans of Collage for Poster

Poster scans, issues with image being too central on the poster from earlier development, it needed to fill more space. Research into the filming of 2001 led me to find a particular filming technique called split screen photography. Use this method to elongate images created earlier in the week. Elongated to disfigure (technique used in stargate scene) and stretch the image to cover the majority of the poster. Tested with a few collages (Ewan's mostly) as well as some photoshop generated images (tom) which incorporated a lot of our initial collages from the first poster workshop. 

Elongated 'split-screen' scans

Refining Poster

Placed a couple of scans over each other to create a series of visuals, selected the best and placed into template made that resembles the size of the poster, and includes the text.

Scan used in final poster

Louis' Negative Space Poster

Started to manipulate the image, stretched, made whites transparent, and experimented with negative space. One of Louis' posters played with negative space and I wanted to try and incorporate that into my own work.

• Felt negative space worked the best, the letters had more impact when white on black. If printed onto coloured paper the the colours would stand out more.



Development of Scans 

• Scan used for the final poster had the most interesting configuration of shapes. Created a warped effect from the split-screen technique which really related to the visuals of the movie. 

Paper Type 

• Having negative space on neon paper allowed the letters and anything white to have a larger impact on the audience.
• Printing black ink onto black paper had a really nice effect, but not right for a poster as it was difficult to read the information. A key part of a poster is to inform and we lost that aspect when printing black on black.
• The group felt printing black onto white paper was more effective, also allowed for continuity with the tickets for the screening. 

Scale 

Original scale was a portrait arrangement of 8 A3 posters in a 2x4 grid.

Thinking of up-scaling the poster size, turning each panel into multiple, larger scale panels to increase the overall poster size.