Nat Hobson

We’ve been back at Uni for 3 weeks and already we’ve got our first deadline under our belt. Our brief made it sound much more complicated than it was, but in essence it revolved around the Danny Boyle film Slumdog Millionaire. Our goal was to choose a theme and take between 1000 and 1500 words of information about the film, which could be about anything, and make it interesting. What would make people actually want to read 1500 words about the film?

The focus here was on concept, hierarchy, typography skills (such as careful font selection and font formatting), execution and overall aesthetics. My solution: Ditch the obvious idea of choosing a theme such as poverty and making it look grungy and dirty and instead focus purely on the information I have chosen and present it in a clear and enticing way. The other part of the brief was that we had to use a system. There had to be some sort of logic and method which related to our theme. My chosen theme was morality and my way of showing morality was size. The bigger something is, the more moral it is, simple. For my text, I wrote my own character biographies and then found a synopsis/review that I liked, which came in at about 1200 words in total.

My poster is an A1 print

Poster Overview

Poster Detail

I also designed a few bits that I liked but didn’t include in the final design, but I’ll show them off anyway!

Vector Elements

Feedback from this project was very good! I had a few criticisms for my previous draft, the main one being that it was overly complicated, so I cut some parts out, re-arranged a large amount of the elements and created some more negative space so it didn’t feel crowded. After being printed out full scale (A1) and being pinned up, I was extremely happy with the out come and it really does stand out on a wall, just as intended.