Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Creating a TV poster

Task:

At this stage I was more familiar with the Illustrator software, so the task was to choose a TV show and to create a film poster for it. My choice was Doctor Who, and I started brainstorming different aspects of the show that were widely recognised by fans of the show and other people.
Some of these ideas included the TARDIS, the Doctor's spacecraft, however I thought that this was an easy option, as opposed to my other ideas. These other ideas consisted of some 3D glasses for the 10th Doctor, and a fez and bow tie for the 11th Doctor. I decided to go with the latter, and also include the character's hair, and his slogan 'geronimo' at the bottom of the poster.
I started off with the fez and bow tie, as I felt that this would be easier and less time consuming. For both of them I used a mixture of the pencil and curve tool, using it to create a shape that I could fill in.
The hair took a while as there were so many curves and shapes to draw, and I did most of this using the curve tool, however one issue was that the anchors did not link to form a shape due to the method I had done this in. I created another shape to go in the middle of the hair so there wouldn't be a gap in the colour, which solved this problem fairly easily.
After this the last tricky part was the font, which took me a while as it is very unique and I was still new to manipulating fonts using 'create outlines'. I used an image on the internet as a guideline, as the font is associated with the TV show, and managed to get my replication tor resemble the image I copied.
Lastly, I added this blue background and white border as a finishing touch, and the finished product is featured below:



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