Poster for "Gosford Park"

Assignment: Make a movie poster where you make a statement about the movie through your work.

Media: Hand-drawn image digitally colored in Photoshop.

Explanation: "Gosford Park" is a movie that contains a lot of dry, subtle humor, but you have to pay attention to pick it up. I tried to recreate the mood of the movie in my poster with the drab mauve color with a splash of red on the knife indicating that there's more to the movie than at first meets the eye.

Poster for "The Green Mile"

Assignment: Create a movie poster in the style of another artist. The artist you pick should relate to the movie you have chosen.

Media: Hand-drawn image digitally colored in Photoshop.

Explanation: The artist I chose was Egon Schiele to draw a poster for "The Green Mile." The reason I chose Schiele is because his self-portraits portray him as a complex figure tormented and struggling. I felt that this type of illustration would fit the character Michael Clark Duncan play in "The Green Mile."

(Of course, in picking Schiele, it is hard to ignore his perverse nature and issues with his sister. But for purposes of this assignment, I did. So there.)

Poster for "Forrest Gump"

Assignment: "Forrest Gump" was a movie that was defied categorization. It was a drama, a comedy, an action movie, and a love story all rolled into one. Re-design a poster for "Forrest Gump" marketing it as only ONE of those types of movies.

Media: Hand-drawn and digitally colored in Photoshop.

Explanation: I chose to market "Forrest Gump" as a comedy in this poster. The poster was well received by the class, but the main concern was that people would confuse the movie as being animated.

Poster for "Teenage Taco Mob"

Assignment: The class will be divided into groups and you will create an entirely new movie. Outline the plot and the cast. Create a logotype for the movie and a tag line. Each member of the group will then create an original poster for the fictitious movie.

Media: Digitally manipulated photographs in Photoshop.

Explanation: The movie my group created was called "Teenage Taco Mob." (Do I smell an Oscar?) The movie, starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Christina Ricci, is a teeny-bopper film aimed at, you guessed it: teenagers. The basic plot of the movie involves Freddie Prinze as a teenage mob boss who works his mob operations out of a Taco Bell-type fast food joint.

The poster I created was a spoof on "The Godfather." The tagline reads:

"I'll make you a taco you can't refuse."