Movie Poster

For this project we will take a movie made in 1945 or earlier and update it for a contemporary audience, in poster form.  Change the name, change the actors, alter the plot, etc., - come up with an idea for an update/remake and create a poster for this new film.  Take photos from the web (saving your links, of course), scan them from magazines, wherever - but NOT from a preexisting movie poster design.  For this project we will work with a combination of photoshop and illustrator.  There are no constraints on the look of the poster, however you should consider the exercises we have completed in the class and apply the design problems we have solved to the problem of communicating movie content through design.

8.5 x 11

due Wed.9.24.8 

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Prep for Movie Poster Design:

Find 3 posters on the web and post them to your blog (include links to the original site), 1 modern (made before 1960), 1 postmodern (made after 1960), 1 post millennial.

Describe the poster in terms of the goals of the designer.  What does the design say about the film and how does it say this?  How is the design trying to get you to attend a screening, what tools is she using?  What are the difference in strategies that might relate to differences in the times they were produced?

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due Mon.9.22.8

Saulbassification

Saul Bassify a contemporary movie poster.  In other words, remake it in the style of Saul Bass:

Consider the defining characteristics of Saul Bass's movie poster design.

posted by Mon.9.22.8

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