My friend next door is head of the LCA film society and he commissioned me to produce a film poster for 'A girl walks home alone at night'. I have no interest in horror films, in fact i refuse to watch them. Here I watched the trailer to get a sense of the film and the story line.
I had the idea of using 2 different sheets as 2 different layers.
Type is something which interests me and I wanted to make it by hand. I went onto 'dafont' for inspiration and found a font which was clear but still had some character which I drew out.
Then I had the dilemma that I had to draw the font onto the card and cut it out. My solution was drawing it onto tracing paper (both sides) and the drawing it backwards onto the back of the paper so that it would read the right way.
Originally I was going to have the lady in a red cut-out circle, however I thought I would play with creepy moonlight by using chalk. I then needed to balance out the use of the red and the chalk but had already stuck the card down so I cut the 'Lecture Theatre' out and stuck it on. This works because the scan makes it seem flat. I liked this font and wanted to use the red because of dripping blood.
Another problem I have to resolve was that I cut out the figure with a scallop knife but it then had an edge which was white, not from bad cutting but because the paper ruffled up the closer I cut. This was very noticeable on the black paper but fortunately the chalk covered this line up.
This poster is now up 5 days before the film is running. This is the earliest one of the posters has been out so hopefully this will increase the amount of people that see it and therefore are interested in turning up!
