Poster Design

 For my project I wanted to create 6 movie posters based on movie that I invented. It is story about war time. In my post when I added interview with my great-grandma I write down ideas that I wanted to create. But first I looked for inspirations. I wanted my posters to be simple and created by using simple shapes. The poster that I used as an inspiration is poster creates for German movie 'Der Golem, wie er in die Walt cam' by Paul Wegener. 

'Der Golem' is a a movie from 1920. It is silent fantasy-horror about giant creature made of clay. This movie is the prequel to 'The Golem' from 1915. 

I couldn't find the reliable informations about author of the poster to this movie, but I did find such name as a Hans Poelzig. He was German architect and set designer. He was appointed Professor of the academy of Arts and Crafts in Breslau (now Wroclaw - the city when I was born). I find his name mentioned in production describe. He created the film's scenery. 

'Der Golem' by Paul Wegener, 1920

I liked colour pallet in this poster and minimalism. I liked that the author used only two colour to create whole city. I used this technique in my posters. 

For this poster I used photo of my grandma as a reference photo. This poster is the one form two that is inspired by another poster. I will talk about it below. For character creation I used knowladge from my previous post about woodcut. I wanted shapes  to be simple and I wanted to show only the most characteristic parts of the face. I used simple, shadow shapes to show the eyes and wrinkles and the hair shape. 

This poster is the second one that is inspired by the second poster. It shows my grandma as a kid swinging on the swing. 

On this poster you can watch the Warsaw in time of the war. on the front is shape of the young girl (my grandma) coming back to the destroyed home. In this poster I decided to put character on the front. because most of the German Expressionism movie poster was using this style. 

For every poster I used the same background, pallet colour, size and types of the font. 

The second poster that I was inspired by was 'El Gabinete Del Doctor Caligari' by Robert Wiene. 

Artist uses here also minimalistic colour pallet. He/she plays with the shadows. I used this technique in two of my posters. 

'The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari' by Robert Wiene, 1919

References:

Imdb.com. 2021. [online] Available at: <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011237/> [Accessed 26 July 2021].

I.pinimg.com. 2021. [online] Available at: <https://i.pinimg.com/564x/86/46/37/864637fc797c571e1c5bca5c6116fcc6.jpg> [Accessed 26 July 2021].