BLOG POST 2: BRIEF PLANS/PROPOSALS

BRIEF 1 - INDIVIDUAL PROJECT: FILM POSTER PROJECT

REQUIRMENTS:  

For this film poster brief, I am interested in my personal experiences watching the films and want to challenge myself to illustrate and convey these feelings through print and drawing.

- To develop posters for hand picked films of my choice - films with lots of visual information-  Films that I identify with on a personal level- have a close connection with; films I grew up on watching. Create my own print and poster project from 1st and 2nd year.

- Films to respond to with poster work, printmaking, drawings that push me and provoke experimental printmaking and drawing.

 Planner / Scheme of work

 

stage one EXPERIMENTATION AND RESEARCH 

  

- Collect screenshots and key visual inspiration from selected films for information to draw from. 

- Visual notes - be very pro active with note taking for tutorials - write down all that Mack teaches in the tutorials. Read up, research it is all very useful for work and for future!

- Use artists listed in blog for reference and inspiration. 

Deadline TBC

 

 

Stage two  OUTCOMES 

Create large inky, experimental drawings, (life drawing-esque methodology), lino printing, silk screen printing, etching, monoprinting and collage. Scan in, collage, combine, edit and refine using self editing, seeking critique from Tutor, peers, print room staff and Klimowski - to produce final composition. Then add text and format the poster (add licensing, title/text) 

Deadline TBC

BRIEF 2 - COLLABORATION WITH HOME CINEMA 

REQUIRMENTS:  

- For the 2nd Brief of this authorship Unit, the ambitious goal is to create film posters for HOME cinema.

- The impact of Covid-19 has meant a halt on film production; there are no new films being released. What HOME does so well is put showings on for old classics such as ALIEN, Blade runner and some Hitchcock films. I am planning on contacting HOME and proposing the idea of designing film posters for some of their upcoming re- released classics. I won’t be asking for any money or commission but I just want my Posters to be on the walls or in the lobby and act as a complimentary piece of poster art.  

- This will be a partnership/collaboration brief alongside HOME. Just to say that I have had my work used to promote films at HOME would be an incredible achievement. The brief will be my response to their choice of old classics that they will be showing in the near future. I will make poster art like I have for brief 1 but this time, the films will have been selected by HOME. 

 Planner / Scheme of work

 

stage one  PROPOSAL/IDEA PITCH

-Comprise email with proposal of the collaboration, make it formal, make it read well and get the point across clearly. Follow up the email with a phone call (harder to say no on a phone call). Present the poster work to them that has been created over Brief 1. Have confidence that this plan will work but do not put all your hope into it, there are plenty more venues, such as small independent cinemas, theatres etc... adapt if plan if HOME decline the collaboration.

  

Stage two  OUTCOMES 

- Collect visual information from HOME's selected films (get the DVD/stream on Netflix, Amazon each of their films that they select).

- Visual notes sketchbook – loose drawings, pencil, mock ups of composition and ideas for what medium of printmaking to use and combine. 

- Use artists listed in blog for reference and inspiration. 

Deadline TBC by HOME

- Create large inky, experimental drawings, (life drawing-esque methodology), lino printing, silk screen printing, etching, monoprinting and collage. Scan in, collage, combine, edit and refine using self editing, seeking critique from Tutor, peers, print room staff and Klimowski - to produce final composition. 

-Then add text and format the poster (add licensing, title/text that HOME will supply/ask for) submit work to HOME for each showing of the film so that they can be put up alongside the showing as a promotional poster for people to see. 

Deadline TBC by HOME