Prof Practice - Film Poster #2

This post is a follow up on my previous post regarding the film poster for my Final Major Project; Echoes of Silence. In the past post I discussed how I was having a hands off approach in the production of the poster. Much like directing, its more of an interesting process to allow a concept to emerge through another individual, and by communicating fulfilling a vision. In essence that is the role of the director, and any chance to further my communication skills in a creative way I will take. In the previous post there was a lot of emphasis on 'minimalist' posters which had a sort of cartoonish look. I set the brief for a few people to see what they would come back with. This was an interesting exercise in seeing how much people understood minimalist design and what it should stand for. As Echoes of Silence is quite a complex film thematically, it became apparent that choosing one subject or one prop to summarise the film visually was going to be quite difficult. Despite this we managed to fulfil my brief of creating a poster combining the beach shoot with the scene involving the bonfire. This is what someone made based on my concept; 

In the same post I made brief reference to using real life subjects as part of my own poster, which I was then going to double expose and bring in some naturalistic elements as part of the second exposure. To do this I was going to need professionally taken photographs to put through photoshop. Luckily we have a photography course right next door to us along with an infinity cove in their studio. I asked one of the photography students if they would help me with this and they agreed to do it on Thursday morning. Unfortunately our actor was unavailable so we had to reschedule the shoot until after Easter.