Horror Movie Posters: Final designs

Horror Movie Poster: First draft

Horror Movie Poster: Image development

Items and images sketch

Poster idea thumbnails

Final poster design

Horror Movie Poster: Font Development

Font examples

Font Examples

Warp testing

Warp testing with final font

Final title

Horror Movie Poster: Research

Saul Bass style horror movie posters

Horror movie posters which use aspects of the Saul Bass Style

Blair Witch Project Posters

Location of movie - Burkitsville, Maryland, USA

Objects and characters in the movie

Colours and textures examples

Saul Bass: Image Development

To get into the feel and style of the movie, we were asked to create a moodboard of images/scenes from the movie.

A moodboard of scenes from the movie, depicting key objects and colour schemes.

A moodboard of colours, using various swatches under the "nature" category in Illustrator.

On top of this, we were asked to create 6 images in the style of Saul Bass, experimenting with colours and detail.

Sketches of important or prominent objects/characters from the movie.

6 shapes related to the movie, using different colour schemes.

Once we had played around with the style more and got a feel for what we should include in the final outcome, we began planning out our storyboards. The idea was to almost retell the story through the images, or while keeping it at vague but as understandable as possible. 

Rough sketch of final storyboard

Final draft of storyboard.

Final storyboard.

Saul Bass: Development

For this project, we were asked to create a storyboard for an introduction sequence of a movie or TV show in the style of Saul Bass. I decided to choose My Neighbour Totoro, a movie by Studio Ghibli.

Before we got to creating the storyboard, we began  practising fonts and text in the style of Saul Bass. Below are 10 fonts in the paper cutout style, resembling Saul Bass. I gathered these already created fonts from various free font sites, including dafont and fontsquirrel as reference.

Then, I began creating my own fonts. I played with the shape, counters, capitalisation and weight of the characters until I was happy with what I had. 

Finally, I settled for this font. I find the mixture of capitalisation and tall, thin shape aesthetically appealing and easy to read.