Work Based Learning - Hitchcock Movie Poster

Our brief for this project was to create a movie poster for a Hitchcock Movie which we chose out of a hat, we were then had to team up with a 3rd party photographer and collaborate together with a model to create a photograph which we could use in our movie posters. I picked out the movie vertigo, which meant I and some others with the same film had to work with people outside of our college hours as the students we were pair with were part time students.

Like every other project I did my research on movie posters, old and new and researched what typography I would be using in my poster.

I also researched 1940's style clothing, photographs and other movies as well as watching the original vertigo movie to help me understand the project better and gain a better picture of what I was going to need to do in my art direction when it came to the photo shoot, what props and poses would I want the do have or do and how I would like the photographs to turn out.

A few days after the photo shoot we received our  photographs, this was a lot of hard work and very stressful as we got everything one week later than the rest of the class as we had part time students meaning we were behind a little.

These were how some of my photographs turned out along with my final piece. I thought that the final poster turned out very well I really enjoyed this project at times.

Pearlfisher - New York

While we were in New York we went to visit one of the most thought about design agencies in the world, Pearfisher. Based in a small building on the top floor, is the very stylish, relaxed and calming environment that is Pearlfisher, although a lot smaller than their headquarters in London, Pearlfisher

Is the perfect working environment and after spending only five minutes in their studio, I had completely forgotten that we were in busy New York.

While visiting, they gave us a talk and showcased their work, the key point that they exercised the most in their presentation was their values. Truth, Design, Desire, their aim is create designs that last, and you can see this in their work, as all of their work is clean and simplistic, designed so well that you probably wouldn't need to redesign the product for as long as it were on sale. Everlasting designs.

I also loved that Pearlfisher weren't like other design agencies, that only excepted the best and biggest of clients, they're happy to work for anybody and everybody, and they'll put their all into their designs.

New York Trip

We got the amazing chance to visit New York City for 4 days with college from March 4th to the 8th, to visit some graphic design and advertising agencies. New York was a real eye opener, not only from the experiences with the agencies but also from just being in such an amazing city with so much to do an how nothing stops and everything so so grand, nothing is small, everything is so inspirational.