OUGD505 - Studio Brief 3: The Border - Movie Posters

I looked at some alternative movie posters.

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

I love the colour scheme used here, the blue and purple really stand out against the grey. I just love the use of flat imagey with textures and colour to create depth and layers.

Rocky

One from Saul Bass, such a simple poster using abstract imagery.

I just like the imagery used here with the boxes behind them. I was thinking I could do a montage of key pieces of imagery from the movie similar to this.

Big Friend Co

I love how texture has been used here, and even though it has used two colours + stock, it looks a lot more interesting because of this.

Rear Window

A classic movie has been done here with really simple imagery made out of shapes that convey exactly what it is about.

Jamie Cullum

This is a movie poster, but I just love the flat imagery and textures used.

Dark City

I love how they have taken the words from the title here and used that to create a really simple but clever piece of design. They have just combined the two words really well.

Saul Bass

This book cover is similar to what I had in mind - key pieces from the movie turned into flat imagery shown as a sort of montage.

Saul Bass

I love the layout of the typography in this poster, as it is all combined through the white strokes. Although it looks chaotic, it follows a grid.

Saul Bass

This again uses really simple imagery to portray the main characters through their bold characteristics. In my film Nicholson's main characteristics are that he has a moustache, hat, uniform and sunglasses. The use of colour has been used well too, and I think it looks good how 'The' is in orange.

The Usual Suspects

There are so many posters for The Usual Suspects like this, with footprints. I picked this one because I think it has been done the rest.

Notre Dame

I love the bright use of colour here and think they contrast well together to make it really striking.

Taxi Driver

I LOVE how the gun and taxi has been combined, it is really clever. At the same time the poster is so simple, using two colours, minimal type and just that image. But it is so bold it doesn't need anything else.

The Night Sky

I love the colour combinations in this illustration, and think it captures a city really well. I just chose this because I like the style of illustration.

Jamie Cullum

I love how you can see a faint photograph in the background of this poster, and again the combination of two completely different objects is so clever. It doesn't look out of place that a bridge and keyboard have been combined to create one piece of illustration, and works so well. It has also used a limited colour palette which I have to do, and shows how it doesn't need anymore.

Tame Impala

This music poster for Tame Impala combines all different natural imagery within the profile of a face which is clever, because although there is so much going on, by using flat imagery it doesn't look chaotic or confusing.

Trumans

This shows how you can use overprints to create more interest.

Dexter

This is one of my favourite posters, it is for the TV show Dexter. I just love how it has combined all key imagery from the show into a montage that just works together and doesn't look confusing. It is done so well, and there is always something to look at. 

Ice Lolly

I just like how the type is placed inside the ice lolly here. I think because it has different fonts and sizes etc it is really interesting.

Poster

I love this illustrator, and his style. I think it is great how he has managed to make an illustrative scene out of it as well as be really information based through typography.

Hopscotch

Here type has been placed creatively by combining it with the lllustration, rather than being two separate things.

Jack's Mannequin

I just love the simplicity of the imagery here, but how it allows for many things to be shown. 

Under The Skin

This is a really great piece of illustration for a new film, and shows really good hand drawn skills. It also has the same colour limitations I will be working with.

Grand Budapest Hotel

This is one of my favourite movie posters, for the new film The Grand Budapest Hotel. I just think it is so clever how it is almost two different posters that are combined together to create one. The use of shape is really creative to create one image from two different objects.

Dallas Buyers Club

Another new film, the Dallas Buyers Club has been depicted a lot, but here is one poster that I really like. I really like how the typography is used here, and the use of the stars underneath the title.

Motorcycle Mayhem

I love how the typography here depicts fastness with the use of strokes, as well as the motorcycle illustration and the arrow curving round the bottom of the poster. Really great use of typography and layout.

Godzilla

Even though this is just a vector illustration, it is really quite scary with the darkness surrounding it, and how it is a close up of an eye.

Jaws

This is such a clever poster for Jaws. There is so much going on everywhere - the peoples faces in the tux, the shark and swimmer as the tie, the boat below.. really captured everything in the movie.

Toy Story 3

This is an almost scary version of Toy Story 3 I think, with the typography and colour. The way Andy is scratched in Woody's show and elongated descenders of the title reminds me of a horror movie.

The Shining

The poster for The Shining, just so iconic.

Escape From New York

I think this is so clever how just from the title a whole conceptual and captivating poster has been created. The maze is such a great depiction of escape.

127 Hours

A great example of negative space here.

Mad Men

I love the colour scheme here and the simplicity of it. I love how the texture helps the desk fade out.

Poster

I just love the depth created in this poster due to drop shadows - it looks like paper has been cut out and stuck on in different levels.

Inception

I love this take on Inception. For a movie that is so complex and confusing to be summed up in a simple poster like this is really clever.

The Birds

Bold, limited colour and strong imagery make this really stand out and stick in your head.

The Shining

Another Nicholson movie, The Shining. The original yellow poster is so iconic, so it is refreshing to see this done differently. 

Batman

I just love the illustration style here. Batman has been done so many times, but this just seems to be something different due to the completely different style - yet you can still tell who it is because of the iconic characteristics used.

Singing in the Rain

I love how photography and illustration are combined here. By using a harmonious colour scheme and white space, it doesn't distract you from the busy content.

American Psycho

This is a different take on a movie poster, as it is presented like a magazine cover or something. I think it is well done because the layout shows clear hierarchy, and the photograph works well in a duotone colour.

OUGD505 - Studio Brief 3: The Border - About The Film

I looked at synopsis' and existing promotional material for the film.

Trivia

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The original finish, which was filmed and edited into previews, had Charlie Smith bomb the border patrol headquarters and get sent to prison. But the ending proved too downbeat for audiences.

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Apparently, Jack Nicholson once said that of all the pictures he had been in, this was the best film he had ever made.

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This films two top-billed stars, Jack Nicholson and Harvey Keitel, re-teamed about eight years after this movie for The Two Jakes (1990).

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The film's title "The Border" refers to the Mexican-US border, specifically, the border between the American state of Texas and the country of Mexico, around the El Paso and Rio Grande region, which is where the picture is set.

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First American film of British director Tony Richardson since The Loved One (1965), a gap of around seventeen years.

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Some movie posters for this film featured a long preamble which read: "When Charlies Smith went down to the border, he found more than a boundary line between Texas and Mexico. He found a line within himself. The Border is the most controversial and emotionally gripping film of 1982. As Charlie Smith, Jack Nicholson delivers one of the most powerful performances of his career. He is a man as divided as the land itself. An uncomplicated man trapped in a complicated life. The Border is an intense film both in its use of language and depiction of violence."

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Media reports stated that lead actor Jack Nicholson was frequently late arriving on set. Reportedly, Nicholson was not happy with this and once replied: "I'm too much of a professional to behave like that".

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The term "wets" or "wetbacks" heard throughout the movie is a slang word for illegal immigrants (often Mexican) in the USA.

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The intention had been that Robert Blake would star, but his name on the marquee would not, it was thought, generate enough audience interest.

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This picture represents one of a handful of films released during the 1980s that had the word Border forming part of the title and examining immigration across the Mexico-USA border, many dealing with issues relating to corruption, profiteering, border protection and illegal immigration. The movies included The Border (1982), Borderline(1980), Border Heat (aka Deadly Stranger (1990)), Border Radio (1987) and Border Cop(1980) (aka aka The Blood Barrier aka The Border aka The Border, USA).

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Elpidia Carrillo's entire performance in this movie in the role of Clara was originally intended to be without dialogue. The movie was the first American film of Mexican actress Elpidia Carrillo and was the first of a number of Latin American related movies made by Hollywood in the 1980s that Carrillo appeared in, others being Beyond the Limit (1983), Under Fire (1983) and Salvador (1986), Capillo's part in the latter having been said to have been very similar to her role in this movie.

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The Bruce Springsteen song "The Line" has been said to have been inspired by this movie.

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This picture was inspired by a number of newspaper reports in the 'Los Angeles Times' about illegal Mexican immigrants in the United States.

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This movie starring Jack Nicholson was released between two of his movies which were both heavily Oscar nominated, Reds (1981) and Terms of Endearment (1983). However, this film was not nominated for any Academy Awrads and was not successful at the box-office either.

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One of the final cinema films of actor Warren Oates, it being followed by only Tough Enough (1983) and Blue Thunder (1983).

OUGD503 - Responsive: P.A. Kelsall Research

I looked at existing websites for plumbers to see what tone of voice people have used, and how I could use more content.

I looked at bathstore.com as it is related to plumbing to see how they have laid out their information. It's a bigger site than what I thought it would be, but it is straightforward and functional.

I then started looking at plumber's websites, and I didn't see a single well designed one.

But, it was useful for me to see what content was on the sites. This is because I got little content given to me, and I felt like I needed more to fill out space. So it was useful for me to see what plumbers had on their sites.

I think people expect plumbing sites to look like this as it isn't exactly a priority for them to look good, because this doesn't affect whether they use their service or not.

So I think that when designing mine I should keep it simple, functional and straightforward, but obviously well designed still.

Another site for plumbing and heating, which is what my client labels himself as. They all seem to have a blue colour scheme with a hint of red to show the heating part of their job. I think this is quite tacky, and the colours chosen don't really go. 

I don't like this website because it looks cheap. This is because of the tacky stock image, the images on the logo and just the overall layout of it.

But it does have here what services it uses, which is handy for me because I want to include a services section on the website, so I can look at the kind of content here for the sake of showing the client what I mean.

Another site shows the services and why you should choose them. I've taken note of this because I can get some ideas for the content.