Film Poster

Film Poster Contextual Influences in Art and Design

Aim of brief

•Know about key developments and influences in art, craft and design

•Be able to research and record historical, contemporary and contextual information

•Be able to review, produce and present outcomes from contextual sources.

•Research a decade

•Generate ideas for presentation illustrated by A1 poster using visuals and text

•Write presentation

Design and produce film posterFor my project I chose Arcade games in the 1980’s.
 

Using the 8-bit pixel graphics as a starting point, I aimed to develop a film poster in the 8-bit graphic style of arcade games of the 80’s

During the 80's period alot of art stlyes flourished, Electronic art is a form of art that makes use of electronic media or, more broadly, refers to technology and/or electronic media. It is related to information art, new media art, video art, digital art, interactive art, internet art, and electronic music. It is considered an outgrowth of conceptual art and systems art.

The term electronic art is almost, but not entirely, synonymous to computer art and digital art. The latter two terms, and especially the term computer-generated art are mostly used for visual artworks generated by computers. However, electronic art has a much broader connotation, referring to artworks that include any type of electronic component , such as works in music, dance, architecture and performance. It is an interdisciplinary field and so artists often collaborate with scientists and engineers when creating their works. The art historian of experimental new media art, Edward A. Shanken is documenting current and past experimental art with a focus on the entwinement of art, science, and technology, as are, in France, virtual historians Frank Popper and Dominique Moulon.

Postmodern art is a term used to describe an art movement which was thought to be in contradiction to some aspect of modernism, or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern.
There are several characteristics which define the term 'postmodern' in art; these include bricolage, the use of words prominently as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, as well as the break-up of the barrier between fine and high arts and low art and popular culture.

An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars, and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers (such as claw cranes). The golden age of video arcade games was from the late 1970s to the late 1980s, and while arcade games were still relatively popular during the first half of the 1990s, this type of media saw a continuous decline in popularity when video game consoles made the transition from 2D to 3D.

In 1971, students at Stanford University set up the Galaxy Game, a coin-operated version of the Spacewar video game. This is the earliest known instance of a coin-operated video game. Later in the same year, Nolan Bushnell created the first mass-manufactured such game, Computer Space, for Nutting Associates.

In 1972, Atari was formed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari essentially created the coin-operated video game industry with the game Pong, the smash hit electronic ping pong video game. Pong proved to be popular, but imitators helped keep Atari from dominating the fledgling coin-operated video game market. Taito's Space Invaders in 1978 proved to be an even greater success, and is now regarded as the first blockbuster arcade video game.^[20] Video game arcades sprang up in shopping malls, and small "corner arcades" appeared in restaurants, grocery stores, bars and movie theaters all over the United States, Japan and other countries during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Space Invaders (1978), Galaxian (1979), Pac-Man (1980), Battlezone (1980) and Donkey Kong (1981) were especially popular.

 

The 1980s saw the continued rise of the blockbuster, an increased amount of nudity in film and the increasing emphasis in the American industry on film franchises, especially in the science fiction, horror, and action genres. Much of the reliance on these effect-driven blockbusters was due in part to the Star Wars films at the advent of this decade and the new cinematic effects it helped to pioneer.
The teen comedy sub-genre saw its popularity rise during this decade.
In the US, the PG-13 rating was introduced in 1984, to accommodate films that straddled the line between PG and R.

I decided to use the previously existing 1980 Film ‘Scarface’ for my poster.The original 1930’s Scarface film is a 1932 American gangster film starring Paul Muni and George Raft, produced by Howard Hughes, directed by Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson, and written by Ben Hecht based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Armitage Trail. The film also features Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, Vince Barnett, Edwin Maxwell, and Boris Karloff. One of a number of pre-Code crime films, the film centers on gang warfare and police intervention when rival gangs fight over control of a city.

This film was the basis for the Brian De Palma 1983 film of the same name starring Al Pacino.

The 1983 American cult hit crime film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, produced by Martin Bregman and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana. A contemporary remake of the original 1932 film of the same name, the film tells the story of Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee who comes to Miami in 1980 as a result of the Mariel Boatlift, and becomes a drug cartel kingpin during the cocaine boom of the 1980s. The movie chronicles his rise to the top of Miami's cocaine empire. The film is dedicated to Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, the director and principal screenwriter of the original 1932 film, respectively.

The designers of the original scarface poster 'Intralink' was founded by Anthony Goldschmidt in 1979. It is one of the most established and well respected strategic marketing and creative design groups specializing in entertainment and visual communication today. Anthony Goldschmidt was born in New York City, New York in September of 1942. He attended Washington University, School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, Missouri where he graduated with honors and a BFA Degree after which he attended Yale University's Bauhaus Masters Design Programme, New Haven, Connecticut. graduating with a MFA Degree.

Using a similar design to the original was hard to avoid because the half black half white scarface poster design was so iconic, but i tried my best to go at the 80s arcade pixel graphics to set my designs apart from the original

 

Contemporory designers

"Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War II.

Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century, with the advent of Modern and Postmodern art forms, distinctions between what is generally regarded as the fine arts and the low arts have started to fade, as contemporary high art continues to challenge these concepts by mixing with popular culture."


The term "contemporary"referring to interior design and furniture, came around the middle of the 20th century and is used to describe dated designs used in current times


bys the end of the 21st centurys first ten year, contemporary design described furniture in the modern style made of wood, chrome, metal and glass

"Postmodernism is a range of conceptual frameworks and ideologies that are defined in opposition to those commonly associated with ideologies of modernity and modernist notions of knowledge and science, such as formalism, materialism, metaphysics, positivism, realism, and reductionism, structuralism. Postmodernism is not a philosophical movement, but rather a number of philosophical and critical methods. In other words, postmodernism is not a method of doing philosophy, but rather a way of approaching traditional ideas and practices in non-traditional ways that deviate from pre-established superstructural modes. This has caused difficulties in defining what postmodernism means and it therefore remains a controversial concept."

Pop Art

 

Pop art emerged in the1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the States.
pop art took a twist on fine art as it included imagery of popular culture such as advertising and news
in pop art the material is sometimes removed or mixed with unrelated material, pop art refers to the attitude ofwhich led the peice to being so

19th century art

early definitions of the term "art" to help us understand how the role of art has changed. In the 11-12th century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, art was defined as "Skill at doing anything as a result of knowledge and practice"

"Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe, January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career."



Film/Art Noir

Film noir began in the 1930's and remained as a strong cinematic medium until the early 1960's. Film noir literally means "black film"

Nighthawks is perfect example of film noir, a 1942 painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is considered Hopper's most famous painting, as well as one of the most recognizable in American art.

"Edward Hopper painted American landscapes and cityscapes with a disturbing truth, expressing the world around him as a chilling, alienating, and often vacuous place. Everybody in a Hopper picture appears terribly alone. Hopper soon gained a widespread reputation as the artist who gave visual form to the loneliness and boredom of life in the big city. This was something new in art, perhaps an expression of the sense of human hopelessness that characterized the Great Depression of the 1930s."

The Bauhaus Movement

"The origins of the Bauhaus movement of modern art and architecture date back to the controversial new school of arts and crafts which was established in Weimar in 1902 by the Belgian artist Henry van de Velde. Another art school had already been founded in 1860 which was also the subject of disputes."

 

The Bauhaus was the first model of the modern art school. The Bauhaus curriculum combined 'theoretic education' and 'practical training' in the educational workshops. It drew inspiration from the ideals of the revolutionary art movements and design experiments of the early 20th century
The central idea behind the teaching at the Bauhaus was productive workshops. The Bauhaus contained a carpenter's workshop, a metal workshop, a pottery in Dormburg, facilities for painting on glass, mural painting, weaving, printing, wood and stone sculpting

Art deco past & current

art deco is a type of design that being in Paris in the 1920's and expanded the world during the 30's and throughout WW2 the design style flourished.

"including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and jewelry, as well as the visual arts such as painting, graphic arts and film. The term "art deco" was first used widely in 1926, after an exhibition in Paris, 'Les Années 25' sub-titled Art Deco"


Its style was influenced by the changing times, with the increase in people traveling, inspiration came from both the places people were travelling to, as well as the transport E.g planes, trains, curse liners and cars.

Utopia Vs Dystopia

Utopia is an ideal world, theorectically, its a place that excist with a visionary system of political or social perfection.

" The word was imported from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean. "

Used in both literature and modern society to describe a place of perfection or complete balance in a way, also expanded on and used in literature is its counterpart dystopia.
utopia is the state of being that is the best possible condition.  A utopia would be a situation, where everyone is happy, there is no sickness, no starvation, no poverty, etc.

" The word comes from the Greek: τόπος and means "no place". The English homophone eutopia, derived from the Greek εὖ and τόπος, means "good place". This, due to the identical pronunciation of "utopia" and "eutopia", gives rise to a double meaning."

Art Nouveau

A woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai also known as "The Great Wave" or "The Wave".
this is an example of Ukiyo-e art, published between 1830 and 1833.
one of the most recognized works of Japanese art in the world.
Its a print of a giant wave riddled with small fishing boats, off the shore of the Japanese city of Kanagawa. alot of people think its a tsunami, but really its thought to be a large okinami, literally "wave of the open sea"
said to have inspired both Debussy’s “La Mer” and Rilke’s “Der Berg”
the painting itself powerfully depicts the difference between the great mountain in the background being drowned ouy by the wave

Steam Punk art

 

Here are some typical examples of steampunk art, all things that we know to be very differently designed in our modern day, but during the industrial revolution, steampower was what led the frontline in design.

Steampunk is almost a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy, thrusted by the technology of the19th century

its an almost different dimension of the world where steam is the highest form of technology, rather than our current electricity powered world

Good typography?

By Robyn Morris.
Robyn's work has been featured in online design galleries, magazines and books worldwide. In 2002 Robyn founded Digitalmash, working for clients including Coca-Cola, Knowledge Network, Broadway.com, and hip hop artist JAY-Z.
this piece in particular, was designed whilst he was in japan, shortly after the tsunami incident, also inspired by it.

personally, i like this because of its simple design but deep meaning; life = experience.

A new project by UK graphic designer, Michael McCabe
takes portraits of musicians and recreates them with
typography using their own lyrics.

An obvious choice for good typrography, Si Scott an absolute expert at what he does in my opinion, this piece here is especially catchy to me because of what it actually says, ''electronic poet'' a great piece, but not necessarily his best piece.

The mysterious explorations of Jasper Morello

From the first few seconds of this short film you easily pick up on the dark and mysterious themes. For a start the title containing 'mysterious' prepares you for whats to follow, the opening scene (as seen in the picture here) shows an industrial environment, cogs and girders fill the background, and in the foreground a platform with a silhouette of a man (Jasper Morello) the silhouette puppet like figures are how the inhabitants of this world are portrayed, which i quite like because it induces more mystery to the story.
further through the film, the protagonist of the story and his crew come across various other conditions such as a never before discovered jungle land, here a mysterious and dangerous creature decapitates one of the crewman with its long spider like legs and viscous teeth.
also a frozen wasteland area and stormy sky are explored, both a well detailed and and creating different vibes for the audience.
This whole film is a perfect example of what can be done with computer generated graphics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORsKyopHyM