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Poster Design Brief

I am the Writer/Director of an upcoming black-and-white short film titled "Dead Metaphors" and I need a 20x30in poster for theatrical screenings. Here is a short synopsis:

"Dead Metaphors is the story of Hank Nichols, a reclusive, alcoholic former prodigy who published an award-winning novel at the age of twenty but has not published any work in decades. He is an angry, self-destructive person who continues to write prodigiously but who refuses to share his work with anyone else.

Hank is approached by an ambitious journalist named Anna Livia. She hunts down Hank and through a series of interviews begins to crack Hank’s hardened shell. Anna’s entrance into Hank’s life sets off a chain reaction of explosive events that will challenge Hank’s identity as an artist, challenge Anna’s identity as a journalist, and ultimately change both of their lives forever."

Here is the film's website: http://deadmetaphors-film.com/
Here is the film's successful Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/936158131/dead-metaphors
Here is a behind-the-scenes featurette: https://vimeo.com/97848961

The design should be dark and simple. The film is thematically indebted to the work of great classic writers like Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and especially Charles Bukowski, so the design should reflect that influence. But there is also a dark, modern existential crisis taking place in the character of Hank, so that element should be in there as well. Hank is the hard-drinking writer cliche, but that cliche is a mask meant to hide his true self form the world.

Here is a link to a fine-cut of the film: https://vimeo.com/102753213
The password is: microfish

It is not a completed version but will give you an idea of what the film will be and give you an idea of the visual tone of the film. The film is in black and white.

Target Market(s)

Art-film audiences at film festivals and other screenings.

Industry/Entity Type

Events

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Colors

Designer to choose colors to be used in the design.

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Look and feel

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Requirements

Must have

• - The poster must have the typical movie poster text at the bottom. The information that should be included is: First line: SUBTERRANEAN FILMS presents a DONE FOR EFFECT PRODUCTIONS AND PIECES PEOPLE PRODUCTIONS production "DEAD METAPHORS" STEVEN WIIG ALICIA BLASINGAME Second line: original music by ALEX RUGER songs by TOM WAITS costume designer RACHEL DAGDAGAN edited by JULIAN RAMIREZ production designer JENNIFER GIRAUDO director of photography BRANDON J. GARCIA Third line: executive producers JOYCE GRADEL RYAN PRESSMAN produced by JEN COSIO ROSE MENDONCA PATRICK FORD written and directed by PATRICK FORD
  - It should have the title of the film "Dead Metaphors" and "A film by Patrick Ford" on the poster.
  - It must be high-quality and printable to a size of 20x30. Ideal resolution is 6060x9090. I only need the high quality printable file, I will do the printing myself.
  

Nice to have

• -"Featuring songs by Tom Waits" would be cool to feature somewhere on the poster besides the bottom text, but I don't want it to feel forced or to look like I'm desperately drawing attention to it.

Should not have

• -Bright colors