Came into the studio to hand in the final PDFs to be printed and we had our final crit with Patrick and Ben just to neaten things up before we printed off the set to go inside the display casing. Both Patrick and Ben agreed that the white text slogan at the top had to go, they weren't keen on it because it made it too "movie poster" and Walking Dead is a tv series. They were also not keen on the black background. This had been something mentioned to me before, I had swapped the black for a navy with the printed result being barely noticeable from the black. I tried it with a grey background and no matter how much I tried to like it, I really didn't. I felt like my characters lost the depth that was created by the harsh white highlight and I felt like the navy made it too male. I did however take their advice on changing the font from black to white, it made it pop more and made the white highlights seem less harsh.
It's really a shame that we were given so little time with this project because I don't feel like I pushed this idea as much as I could have done. Ideally I would have liked to progress with the initial Howls Moving Castle Idea but having a week and a half to produce something that did the movie justice I felt was unachievable. I am pleased with my final for this, as far as it goes it's not the worst Walking Dead poster out there but I do feel like it is borderline cliche and as far as poster design goes, it could have really been pushed further.
M O V I N G F O R W A R D
I was really pleased/excited to collab with Travelling Man, hopefully my work sells reasonably well and I will be able to collab with them in the future (and if not, at least it will look good on the cv). Practice wise from this project I think moving forward for me means I need to push myself further in my next projects. Going for the most obvious option is sometimes the most time efficient but if I had dedicated more time to roughs I think I could have made something that will sell better.
I only printed 5 for Travelling Man, but the run of prints will be 10. That way if I do sell the ones down at the shop, I have space to print more and take them down to the shop without infringing the copyright/exclusive-ness of them.
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