Week Three

Week three, sanity starting to slip...

First up, here's some cool poster/flyers from other film festivals around the world:

 This weeks minutes, now in bullet point format!

• PR group meeting  30-45minutes
• Design meeting with Jon 2hrs 
• Sample color palette design 2hrs
• Design research  1-2hrs
• Watercolors* 3+hrs
• Video race poster design 2 hrs
• Beetles!* 1-2hrs
• Video scoring (I don't even know)
  

 

 

 * On this week's design meeting 

An unreasonable amount of progress was made this Friday. 

First off, we designed a super-flexible, pulp art inspired color palette:

Apologies to Mr. Neil Krug

This is going to be a huge part of our upcoming Design Plan for 2013. We also explored different design elements, both thematic and images.

Final design elements include:

• Watercolor textures
• 'Double exposure' matte effects (especially for moving media)
• Beetles and beetle wings! Specifically, southeast asian jewel/flower beetles.
• Pulp art
• Galactic/planetary imagery
• Abstract geometry -- Astrolabe inspired

On the beetle note, I've actually ordered a couple of preserved beetles. All stock images were limiting or had terrible terms of use, so we'll be making our own media!

Torynorrhina flammaea

 We'll have one of each of these little buggers. The images are off of the supplier's site, and the ones on the left aren't 100% accurate to species, but are going to be those colors. They should be in by the end of the week and should be ready to photograph by this weekend. So, rejoice! We have a 'mascot' again!

Hetorrhina leonardi

 Coming up this week is the design for the Valentine's Day Sale poster. Meeting with AJ to talk about that design, will be doing some relevant research in the meantime.

I'll also be pitching multiple designs for the video race poster on Tuesday, and hope to have that finalized by Friday.