Project #2 ::: Poster design

POSTER DESIGN


DUE DATE: 09/24/08

THE CONCEPT
Focus, delivery, continuity, creativity and presentation are the essentials of what a poster design encompasses within the realm of visual communication. The success in designing a theatrical event poster depends on, not only the understanding what purpose the content of what the poster depicts, but also understanding the target audience.

THE THEATRICAL POSTER CONTENT
You can choose one play from the provided list below to create your poster. It's vital that you familiarize yourself with the theatrical play. RESEARCH the choice you made and then write a brief synopsis of the key elements and plot/subplot points including a brief description of the characters.

Distill, to the best of your ability, the emotional crux and meaning of the play and design a poster reflecting in a very contemporary/modern fashion way the meaning which you discovered. (Traditional or ancient plays should be reinterpreted and presented for a modern audience). Posters should be interesting and unique, typographically strong and readable from a distance (although they will never become a business card =). All the elements of who, what, where and when should be presented as well as the play.

Text type (body copy) will be discussed in class, but here's part of the information you will use:
Where: The Fabulous Fox Theatre
When: September 24th - November 24th
The who, what, where and when is the usually the necessary information along with the event logo you design as well as the logo of the Fox Theatre.

THE CHOICE
Knowing your subject and imagery is crucial to the success of your design and delivery. Research is required and will be discussed in class individually before the actual design begun. The ability for you to create your own images through photography, illustration, paintings/drawings, collage, etc, is the key to this project. A successful approach will implement broad graphic design stylizations of subject matter along with a creative solution to using type (type works as an image and as information).

FINAL PRESENTATION
Each poster should be a full bleed 10.75" x 16.75" print mounted on white board.


Here's the list of the shows you can choose to design your poster:

1. Phantom of the opera  - Heath
2. Grease 
3. The little mermaid - Vicky
4. Les misérables
5. My fair lady - Jessica
6. Beauty and the beast
7. Chicago - Gazula
8. The lion king - Anjeli
9. Mamma mia!
10. Legally Blond - Barrom
11. The producers - Maddy
12. Hairspray - Lanadia
13. Hair - Rory
14. Evita
15. Dreamgirls - Lauren
16. The sound of music - Sarah Kim
17. Amadeus
18. The Seven Year Itch
19. Grand Hotel
20. Sunset Boulevard - Sarah Mallard
21. Dracula - Justin
22. West side story - Shane
23. Mary Poppins - Cristy Lee
22. The Color Purple - Lizette
23. MacBeth - Jon
24. Xanadu
25. The King and I
26. A Streetcar Named Desire
27. Camelot - Brent
28. Kiss of the Spider Woman
29. Rent - Katie
30. Shrek - Robert
31. Around the world in 80 days
32. Dirty Dancing - Miandra


* All plays listed above are also movies, however, you will be designing posters for plays.

** The more you investigate the story behind each play and get to know the play, the better your design will be.

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