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Poster Design Brief

We are an amateur theatre group based in Geneva, Switzerland. We take pride in eye-catching posters for our shows, which are printed in various sizes.

Unfortunately our budget is limited so we are not able to pay more than $10 for any stock images or art that is used on the posters. Please keep this in mind when searching for appropriate images.

This design will be for two original one-act comedies which will perform in late April 2016. Proceeds will go to charity. We would like a split design in a vertical poster format. It is up to you whether this is a horizontal or diagonal split, but there should be a clear division between the two.

Here are plot summaries for the two plays. To be clear, the plot summaries and the publicity texts SHOULD NOT APPEAR ON THE POSTER.
Play 1, A Business-Like Affair
A man attending a business meeting with a client in a hotel discovers the "client" is his ex-fiancée and accidentally locks himself in a closet in an attempt to hide from her. They end up hashing out the details of their failed relationship through the closet door, and end by reconciling.

Here is the text we are using to publicize it:
A Business-Like Affair is a comedy that sets out to push the envelope on business communications while simultaneously moving forward within an end-user perspective of Anglo-French relations. The drama unfolds against a background of delicious international cuisine. A parody of management-speak, you’ll be rooting for the characters in a not-so-classic story of unrequited love.

Here are some design suggestions, but very open to other ideas:
A background of a hotel bedroom. It's a very simple set - basically a bed and a closet. Maybe an image of the closet with a sign on the door - for example "Service Only".

Play 2, Working Girl
Plot summary: Sophie takes a part-time job at a recently-opened "adult store" in her small village in Ireland. There is the humor of small-town folk being confronted with the sex shop, as well as the more serious backdrop of Sophie learning that the owner of the shop was the former lover of her father.

Publicity text:
In Working Girl, Sophie, a college student struggling to pay her way during the economic crisis in Ireland, decides to take an unusual part-time job. Can a small community in “Holy Catholic Ireland” find its way out of the dark ages and into the 21st century? Working Girl is a comedy with a serious, relevant and contemporary message.

Design suggestions (open to other ideas): photographic style, vivid or deep colours, lots of shade.

Here is the information that needs to be on the poster, wherever you see fit:
Play 1:
play title: A Business-Like Affair
author byline: by Bill Lloyd

Play 2:
play title: Working Girl
author byline: by Béibhinn Regli

Applies to both:
No need to include the words before the colons, they are just for clarity:
date: 29-30 April 2016
time: 20:00 (or 8pm, up to designer)
location:
École de Commerce Nicolas-Bouvier
rue de Saint-Jean 60
Geneva
websites:
www.geds.ch
www.theatreinenglish.ch

The poster should say "Two Original One-Act Plays"
"Proceeds to charity"

Attached you will find a template for our posters. This simply has our group name and logo in the top right corner: (Geneva English Drama Society presents).

You may change the color of both the text and the logo, but please do not change the font, size, or location.

Technical Details:
Any font or combination of fonts is acceptable. The largest text should be the play titles.

For this competition, we would like the version with A3 proportions, which will also be used at A5 size (14.8 x 21 cm). Therefore no text should be below 9pt at A5.

However, from the winning designer we will also need repurposed sizes of the same design. Here is a comprehensive list of the sizes we will need.

1) A3 print poster. Artwork should be 300dpi, CMYK, sent with a 1mm bleed all round, to specification PDF/X-1A:2001. We will need this image in PDF format in addition to the default Designcrowd formats.

2) Horizontal A6 JPG. This will be used as an advertisement in another play's programme. The text will have to be resized. If the original poster is vertical, then other changes will have to be made, of course.

2) Facebook advert picture. 1200px by 628px, RGB jpeg. This must comply with Facebook’s restrictions on amount of text, which is no more than 20% of area taken up by text.(https://www.facebook.com/ads/tools/text_overlay).
Because of these restrictions it is sufficient to include just the title and the author's name in this version.

3) Facebook cover picture: 851px by 314px. RGB jpeg. It is sufficient to include just the title and the author's name in this version.

4) Web banner. 1000px by 300px. RGB jpeg. This version should include just the main image(s), no text.

5) Square version. Main images, no text. 600px x 600px

6) For a very particular website: 1280px x 960px

Target Market(s)

Theatregoers

Industry/Entity Type

Performing Art

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