MAJOR PROJECT: Quentin Tarantino/Poster Research

Whilst brainstorming ideas for the poster and the graphic design elements of the film, I have looked at the work of American Director and Writer - Quentin Tarantino. His films are renowned for their comedic and thrilling values, as well as his creative writing and unique visual style on screen. Some of his work has focussed on heists in particular which we took inspiration from. The first opening scene in Pulp Fiction where they are in the diner discussing a robbery is how we intend to set up our film. I like how at first you can't tell that they are talking about a heist, leaving the audience in the unknown. We intend to be clever about the dialogue in our opening scene in the car to only drop subtle hints and not make it obvious that they have planned a heist.

Reservoir Dogs Poster

Kill Bill Poster

I researched Tarantino's work in particular to examine some of his film posters. I remember some of them from memory as being very bold and simplified which is what we have in mind for our poster. As seen in the poster for 'Kill Bill' below, he has chosen one colour and made it look bold and eye-catching. Yellow is the colour of Uma Thurman's suit in the film and is a key style trick. Using yellow again for the poster only intensifies it so that audiences are left associating the bold yellow colour with that film in particular. Although, our characters will be dressed in simple black clothing and we won't be choosing black for the poster, I think that the colour choices for the should be bold like those in the Kill Bill poster. Whilst researching other posters for his films, I came across a range of posters which are just as simplified. Although, this is not the first poster for the Reservoir Dogs, this one along with a collection of his other films have been given this similar design. They have used a two toned effect which picks out the outlines and fills in the details with block colour to get a simple image like the one shown above. Again, they have stuck to a very basic and limited colour palette of red, black and white which are contrasting and look very dynamic against each other. I think that a design like this for our poster would work, using just the outlines of Bobbie and Clive's figures in the colour palette we choose. I also think that the font choices used in his posters always look very striking and eye-catching and suit the genre of the films which is important. We will need to take all of these things into account when designing the poster for our film to ensure that the imagery, colour palette and fonts are all well suited to the production.