Behind the scenes of film poster designs.
My mate Gregor is planning the upcoming premiere of his diploma short “St. Christophorus”. I always wanted to build a piece of cinema promotion stuff so I had the idea of making an actual life-size traffic sign inspired by the film poster I created earlier.
Of course, the backside is branded!
Look out for the upcoming website: www.roadkill-film.com which I designed. You can also win a free bluray copy of the film so be sure to check back very soon!
My friend Moritz sent me some copies of the ‘Deserter’ soundtrack! Yay!
From today, Moritz’ soundtracks are available from iTunes as well. And again, my artworks are featured:
My friend Moritz from scoringforfilm.com is selling his soundtracks on Amazon and of course my covers are featured:
Download/Buy the soundtracks from “31 North 62 East” and from “Deserter”.
My recent project “Deserter” was a lot of fun. Since it is a WWII movie, I wanted a rough, dark and cold look for the poster.
The director provided me with some still photographs. I chose one of them, added some digital magic and turned it into the key image for all following material.
My latest project is called “marigolds”. In preparation, I researched on the web and found, of course, this. …which turned out to be just partially right. Since I don’t live in the UK, I had to learn it also stands for something else. Both are elements in the short film. The movie has some sort of twist at the end which we didn’t want to give away on the poster already. So we decided to use just the blue door as a very strong graphic and metaphoric element adding some hint with the pot of flowers.
Working for my mate Gregor is always a pleasure. We’ve had projects for years now and we’ve been friends since our youth. I always liked his movies and he always liked my designs. A lot of fun for the both of us.
But his latest project “St.Christophorus: Roadkill” really became hard work! It is a satirical horror short. That’s where the problem starts. The design needs to shbow some of that bloody stuff, but still needs to leave a little smile on the viewer’s face.
I ended up making almost 40 layouts including several different version of several different ideas.
As I designed the “31 North 62 East” film posters a couple of months ago, I got another phonecall recently. The film is being sold to the American market and therefore needs a different poster. It seems to be quite common to have different poster versions for different markets - not just language-wise but also concerning the actual poster design.
The process of designing the UK poster version was a rather quick one. I developed 9 different versions which is a little above the average number of layouts.
The client was happy with the last one, I made some minor adjustments - there we had our poster!
I got very excited when flying to the UK to finally watch the film “31 North 62 East” I’ve been working for quite a long time. I created the film posters, flyers, soundtrack CD and lots of cinema promotion material and was quite curious about it’s gonna look like.
Designing stuff on the screen and then seeing the actual printed item can be quite a surprise sometimes, and this was a good one.
As I stood in front of the cinema (by accident actually!), I was very impressed by how cool all the stuff looked that I made on my little computer weeks ago. Seeing your poster printed in a 2 metre poster size really rocks!
