For our assignment, we were asked to select a thriller/horror movie that we would like to design a poster for, within the time constraints of 5 hours. I took 3 of those hours to create an alternative, illustrated poster for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.
I decided to narrow in on the character of David 8 (played by Michael Fassbender) because of his duality and complexity throughout the film. As with the real-world poster series, I chose to keep type minimal and, instead, drive attention of the audience to the movie through the mysterious, android face of David. I believe that, hardwired as we are, faces are an extremely successful mechanism through which to capture attention. In addition, I employed an eery colour space (inspired by the movie itself) to further the tone of the illustration and film.
Yay, Michael Fassbender!
Tear-Knee Design 