Adversary Season on TCM!

Just to let you know how the TCM project is developing. I’ve used the initial sketches which I posted previously to create large scale linoleum prints as a foundation for 3 film posters, the layout has developed from the artwork being framed by space to an aggressive crop of the face; the dirty and distressed print making techniques work as a visual metaphor for the characters’ qualities in the films.

Tchéky Karyo as Inspector Richards from Kiss of the Dragon

Lionel Atwill as Professor Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Jude Law as Harlen Maguire from Road to Perdition

*Update* Rather than post similar images again and again, I have replaced the images in this post with the final posters. Changes included manipulating the prints for more dramatic composition, refining the artwork used to remove some blotches and scratches in the paper, slightly muting the background colours and finally changing the layer blend effects so that the black ink is retained rather than absorbing some of the background colour – which previously made the whole image appear to be in the wrong hue.

A Conclusion

Tomorrow is the deadline for the ‘England’ project (which my conceptual footage of tea was for). So I thought I’d share with you the final creative solutions; a large format poster and a two part narrative of the tea making process.

My self given brief was:
To communicate the beauty in the process of tea brewing whilst celebrating its inherent Englishness to a relevant television audience.

Let me know if you think I’ve met it.

An A2 poster; linocut logo over a surreal background of tea mixing.

(1/2)  An advert showing the beauty of tea.

A 60 second motion graphic branding tea as a key element to English culture.
Music: Benjamin Britten – Dawn (Sea Interlude one of four from the opera Peter Grimes)

https://vimeo.com/79152627 

(2/2) An advert showing the beauty of tea.

A 60 second motion graphic branding tea as a key element to English culture.
Music: Elgar – Nimrod (part of the enigma variations)

https://vimeo.com/79155201 

Being new to motion graphics, it is needless to say that I have gained a lot – not least more content for my portfolio. The techniques and effects that I have learnt for Premiere and After Effects will undoubtedly be to my advantage in the future, especially as this is first portfolio worthy piece of motion graphics that I have created. It seems a shame for this body of work to go to waste so I have emailed the owner of Grey’s Teas offering him the submission of my creative deliverables – hopefully this will mean that the project is described in my portfolio as professional client work rather than a hypothetical brief.

Josh

 

*update*

In revisiting this project, a consolidated 20 second cut was made. This was to make the solution more suitable for the attention span of a viewer; as well as appropriate for a commercial break time slot.

https://vimeo.com/85828922 

Making Tea Underwater – Tea Mixing in Water – Conceptual Test Footage

http://vimeo.com/76818101

Concept test footage for a project I’m undergoing at University, branding tea as a key element to English culture. Currently sans-branding. I’m hoping to re-shoot the footage in studio to avoid the reflections and to obtain higher resolution footage. Footage currently slowed to ~70% (with slight variance to fit the motion to the audiotrack)
Music by Benjamin Britten, the ‘Dawn’ Interlude from the opera ‘Peter Grimes’

Foodfile Collaboration

Mid 2013, I was responsible for the net design and artworking of the ‘FoodFile’, a joint social action project between UCS and FIND food banks; this project was to provide households receiving food parcels with friendly and non-patronising recipe ideas and advice.

The project was completed in a group, within which we all took responsibility for several tasks. The design (encompassing net and artworking) was my responsibility, with our teams illustrator Michael Barrett drawing the vine for the wallet, which we then placed together.

Credit and ownership:
Wallet design, net and artworking excluding vine are solely my own work.
Illustration credit: Michael Barrett; see: http://www.thegoodshipmorris.tumblr.com
Photo credit: Gary Reedman; see: http://www.behance.net/gallery/FoodFile/10496109