Project: Art Noveau Phantom of the Opera

I already introduced the topic on a previous a post, but in case you're too lazy to either click the link or scroll down, I'll recap for you:

We had to pick a graphic design style (New York School or Swiss design, say) and were given the choice to either make a poster based on a movie or a famous place. I don't know how famous place got so many votes, because I know like one person who actually chose to do that boring thing.

Anyways, my partner and I chose to do Phantom of the Opera in the style of Alphonse Mucha.

And there you have it. But before I post the actual poster, would you like to see some more drafts first?

A cleaned up version of one of the drafts, where I pretty mush centered and neatened things up a bit, as well as give you an idea as to what colour scheme we would be using.

Our final second draft. Made her looking towards you a bit, widened the space allotted for the title, as well as added a text box for all the movie-like stuff like actors and what not.

So which draft exactly did we end up going with? The answer's none of the above, but a draft my partner put forward. I've never seen the movie before, but I think this is supposed to be based off the scene where the Phantom meets Christine at a mirror, and she realizes it's actually a door. I don't really know, I'm just getting this off hearsay.

And, without further ado, my final poster!

Art Nouveau Phantom of the Opera Poster

Sleep? What's that? I don't even know if you could count those two measly hours of sleep I got as actual revitalizing sleep. But yeah, if you already couldn't guess, I spent two all nighters on this thing just so I could get the impossible done and have this ready for presentation day, even though we wouldn't be able to print it in all 36" by 24" glory until much much later. I actually have the poster sitting in my room right now, ready to be handed in but can't because my TA isn't at school until Wednesday.

I've grown to have a greater appreciation for Illustrator and after doing this, it has opened my eyes as to what the program - or really Live Trace - can accomplish. Yup, I pretty much made all the people out of Live Trace.


Drafts made in openCanvas.
Poster made in Illustrator.