Bass Study

The task was to create my own film poster in the style of Saul Bass. Here I chose to do the film Death Proof by Quentin Tarantino. I think the original poster (shown on the left) looks very similar to a Bass style poster, as strong colours such as black and red are used. Also the black silhouettes of the eight women in the background reminds me very much of the cut outs he uses in his film posters. Interesting typography is used throughout this poster.
My Poster
It was hard for me
to recreate this poster without copying some of the ideas
from the original poster.I unintentionally chose the same colours, I realised this when I uploaded them to this blog. I tried to incorperate the same elements Bass uses in his film posters. Particularly 'Vertigo', where he puts the main character 'James Stewart' in bold letters at the top of the poster. I did the same by putting Kurt Russel's name at the top of the page as he is the leading man in this movie. The lettering too were Bass inspired cut outs. I made the 'Kurt Rusell' letters out of a broken windscreen shaped cutout,the idea came from the film poster 'Anatomy of a Murder', where the letters are carved out of a body. I hadn't intended on making a car shape in the begining , it happened accidentally as I was trying to put blocks of bold colours on a bright background. The title 'Death Proof' is at the bottom of the car above the yellow cut out of a severed leg. This severed leg is is from a scene in the movie, again relating to the fact that Bass used key scenes in his poster designs. I chose to add the leg to the poster because I found that scene most memorable throughout the entire movie(severed leg scene is the second video on the right hand side of this blog in the section labled 'VIDEOS-RELATING TO BLOG'). Overall I am happy with the design of my poster , I think I acheived the fifties styled Bass inspired poster I was aiming for. I think I could improve more though if I had taken more time when making this piece.