Poster Workshop

Film Poster Workshop

Made collages to develop into a posters advertising our film screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Needed to create "patterns" from the film, developed a variety of images inspired by the film. The frequency of the soundtrack (by Ewan) was one I really liked, he ripped paper to emulate the frequency waves of the soundtrack to the film. It also starts to look like a landscape, similar to the one at the start of the film during the 'dawn of man' scenes. 

I developed a series of chessboard images, as something i noticed during the film was the virtual chessboard, which is rather advanced for the late sixties. Especially since the character is playing against HAL 9000, a digital robot. I really like the scene, it wasn't a major part of the film but i really liked it's simplicity. 

We also had to create a "key scene" from the film. Most people made either the scene within the spaceship when he's walking through the mesmerising black and white octagonal tunnel. The initial 'dawn of man' scene with all the monkeys and the obelisk. As well as the running through the centrifuge spaceship scene, among the frozen bodies. The results were interesting as even people who were collaging the same scene had very different end results.

Octagonal Spaceship
Scene (Ewan)

Obelisk, object 
(Evie)

Running in centrifuge, 
using off-cuts (Ruby)

Octagonal Spaceship
Scene (Evie)

Manipulating text
- fragmented

Frequency of
soundtrack (Ewan)

Collage of an "object" from the scene was another design we needed to collage during the workshop. Some people designed the obelisk, I wanted to make a design that would use more negative space, so when scanned in with the other collages it would be a little bit different, so has a black boarder and a white shape inside.

Directing type was another challenge, we experimented with snaking type, around the boarder which was very effective, but what I found to be the most successful was the fragmentation of type, cutting, sticking and re-layering creating a minefield of letters. Felt it should be something we carry on using within the main poster.

Then using off-cuts of paper from the session we created a final image, my favourite being Ruby's. It was simple as it only used 2 off-cuts, whereas many others were really busy and I found it harder to see a design within them. Ruby's Image made the running scene again, but from a very different perspective, it seemed to resemble the making of the scene rather than what was shown on camera.

The octagonal spaceship scene

Playing chess against HAL 9000 scene