Posters

To 'sell' the concept of my graphic novel I created two posters which would advertise it. I wanted the focus of the posters to be on the dual worlds. So I created designs which I thought would capture this. As with the large majority of my work for this brief I wanted to show the scope and tone of the graphic novel/motion comic.

For inspiration I looked at poster work by Struzan, an artist who did many of the movie posters in the 80's and early 90's such as this iconic poster...

I didn't want to create just an image, I wanted to be able to portray the story. I looked at the way Struzan and others such as Alvin, (2008) the astonishingly prolific poster artist who created this piece for Jurassic Park...

Alvin explains that a poster has to be more than an impressive image, it has to "Create the promise of a great experience" (Alvin, 2006).

This was what I wanted to capture in my posters, a sense of story and scope...

Poster 1...

Poster 2...