Graphical themes

During the early stages of our projects production, I had set my mind of creating an appropriate aesthetic for our film. I wanted to ensure that the images I would be making during the project's creation would be visually interesting, so I began work on finding a suitable pallet of colours which would be appropriate for a poster of the short.
I approached this by finding a small selection of posters for thrillers which had similar themes to our short film, sampling the colours, and painting dots of each colour in a blank Photoshop document. I wanted to see which colours mixed well together, so I ran a few effects, a mosaic pixilization effect to take the mean colour from a group of dots, and a radial blur to mix things together. This resulted in a rather nice pattern of curved, staggered lines which work well in an overlay form atop the poster I've been working on.



This asset has come in useful in the creation of the poster, where it is being used as an overlay atop the main image, adding the round, fragmented texture to the image. This is especially handy because it allows us to convey the fragmented stylalization of the narrative as well as the importance of the broken mirror/reflective objects in our film in a fairly subtle manner.