Advertising Poster

This is The advertising poster for my animated short film. Much like the short film you don't really know what's going on. i didn't want to include the antagonist in the poster design as I didn't want to make it seem as it was real, or did live. The whole idea behind the design, is he's falling or being dragged further and further away from the truth. He his reaching out and trying to grab the question mark, which i've used a representative for the truth, or answers. The colour scheme i wanted to try and match that of the short film, i just went one up from the whole look of the short film. The background colours (purple and green), are both opposites on the colour charts and therefore work well together which is why i chose them, i just selected a shade of that colour that matched the palette that i'm working with for this project.

I made various question marks and dotted them around the page as a floating selection, so that I could then drag them in one direction slightly so that the white background colour comes through and you kind of distinguish that it's a question mark. I also produced the writing saying 'question mark' as a floating selection, this allowed me to colour the writing in, but only where i wanted too, so i purposely left parts of the writing out so you can't quite make out the whole word unless you look at the other parts dotted around and make sense out of it. During this process i also made sure it looked like some of the text went behind the man as well as in front so that it gives a sense that he is surrounded by question. I added the logo of my fictitious production company in the bottom left of the poster, and down the bottom in small print, some information about who it's by etc. STUDIO 90 is my personal (real life) studio i'm currently trying to get up and running and spreading it's name. so i thought i'd throw that in for some exposure ;)

Magazine Review Page

This is my magazine review page. I called it culture shock magazine, it's an informal magazine for those interested in all things Japanese, whether it be the clothing, culture, media or products.

To make this i drew out a basic page lay out for what i wanted it to look like, scanned it in and worked form that. The first thing i did was the top, i worked on the red section, making sure it wasn't just a solid red, so i mixed some colours up and used different brushes at various opacities to create the look. Then i Added the Title. I used the Impact font, plain simple yet effective, then produced a layer behind it of some transparent white scribbles just to fill it up about and stop it looking too plain. I decided to add the title of the magazine in the little drop down in the artsoak font, and kearned the letters so the were slightly more spaced apart.

I added the pictures of the 3 reviews i was going to do, and decided i'll have the top and bottom blocked to the left and the central review blocked to the right, just so the page seems more busy and different. I used pictures of the DVD covers of 2 of my favourite animations for their reviews, and used the poster design for the review of my short film.

I wrote a short informal review about the film in question.including information about who made it and what company distributed it. I also added the website to the production companies website.