Lensheads Movie Posters
Even student films should trick their audience in to thinking their budget is bigger!
Stalking Horse Poster
Every year at the Learning Centre (were I spend most of my time working) we do Film & Animation courses for kids aged 12-19, called Lensheads. We help them produce high quality short films, then they are given a premiere night and the films entered to First Light's young film awards.
We had raised the bar back when we started promoting the course with A-Team ladies poster which was a huge success, it seemed only fair to give the end result the same amount of attention! I came up with concepts for the 2 live action films and we took the cast to Summerlee to do a photoshoot.
I honestly don't think I've ever been happier with any project in terms of what I had in mind compared to the final result, than the Stalking Horse poster. It's exactly how I imagined it would look. The concept is a take on the Poltergeist poster obviously, but it takes on its own life while the parody itself represents themes of the film. In Poltergeist Carol Anne, converses with demons through the television screen - in Stalking Horse Louise, also a young girl, converses with a different type of demon - namely a child predator - through her computer screen. The design and colour plays on themes from Facebook and social networking in general, which is also core to the plot.
I was conflicted as to whether or not to use the Facebook style logo, as the Social Network had beaten me to it, but I decided it was more important to create the proper mood for the film than worry about whether or not I was ripping someone off - especially when they were just ripping off Facebook anyway!
Art Direction: Kevin Gilmour
Photography: John Cameron
Hooded Girl: Catherine Wallace
Every year at the Learning Centre (were I spend most of my time working) we do Film & Animation courses for kids aged 12-19, called Lensheads. We help them produce high quality short films, then they are given a premiere night and the films entered to First Light's young film awards.
We had raised the bar back when we started promoting the course with A-Team ladies poster which was a huge success, it seemed only fair to give the end result the same amount of attention! I came up with concepts for the 2 live action films and we took the cast to Summerlee to do a photoshoot.
I honestly don't think I've ever been happier with any project in terms of what I had in mind compared to the final result, than the Stalking Horse poster. It's exactly how I imagined it would look. The concept is a take on the Poltergeist poster obviously, but it takes on its own life while the parody itself represents themes of the film. In Poltergeist Carol Anne, converses with demons through the television screen - in Stalking Horse Louise, also a young girl, converses with a different type of demon - namely a child predator - through her computer screen. The design and colour plays on themes from Facebook and social networking in general, which is also core to the plot.
I was conflicted as to whether or not to use the Facebook style logo, as the Social Network had beaten me to it, but I decided it was more important to create the proper mood for the film than worry about whether or not I was ripping someone off - especially when they were just ripping off Facebook anyway!
Art Direction: Kevin Gilmour
Photography: John Cameron
Hooded Girl: Catherine Wallace
The Other Guy Poster
The second Lensheads poster is for teenage romantic comedy The Other Guy. The concept was to get the balance of the character based romantic comedy poster right without falling into the blandness of most romantic movie posters. I avoided that by adding lots of colour to keep it youthful and visually busy and garnished it with some pixelated and messaging icons to ape the use of text messaging which is pivotal to the film itself.
It was a lot of fun working with the actors, Aidan did a great job keeping everyone motivated throughout a long day, though I think Amber could have worked all day and not got bored of having her picture taken!
This shoot was the one that sold me on shooting my own material for designs, when I saw the final shots comp'd together it told the character's story through expressions alone. The descriptive tag's were used as a device to introduce the title more than explain the characters.
Art Direction: Kevin Gilmour
Photography: John Cameron
Stars (left to right): Amber Livingstone, Wendy Norton, Aidan O'Mara, Tommy Brennan and Andrew Turnbull
The second Lensheads poster is for teenage romantic comedy The Other Guy. The concept was to get the balance of the character based romantic comedy poster right without falling into the blandness of most romantic movie posters. I avoided that by adding lots of colour to keep it youthful and visually busy and garnished it with some pixelated and messaging icons to ape the use of text messaging which is pivotal to the film itself.
It was a lot of fun working with the actors, Aidan did a great job keeping everyone motivated throughout a long day, though I think Amber could have worked all day and not got bored of having her picture taken!
This shoot was the one that sold me on shooting my own material for designs, when I saw the final shots comp'd together it told the character's story through expressions alone. The descriptive tag's were used as a device to introduce the title more than explain the characters.
Art Direction: Kevin Gilmour
Photography: John Cameron
Stars (left to right): Amber Livingstone, Wendy Norton, Aidan O'Mara, Tommy Brennan and Andrew Turnbull
