Master of Suspense - Package Ideas

This is my idea of trying to be innovative with packaging. It was going to be perforated and so it would reveal the name of the poster series once it was peeled away, thus being suspenseful. This really hasn't worked, the perforator doesn't really cut that deep and doing it by hand looked really bad. I think not doing something 'innovative' would be a better idea for me.

Pack Ideas

This is a quick sketch for the idea for the pack design. I want it to carry on the theme of suspense, so I am going to print onto the back of my posters the name of the poster series. The posters will be folded into quarters and put into envelopes, the envelopes will be perforated so that you can suspensefuly see the title of the poster series. I think it will work fairly good.

Final Zine

This is the final zine (badly photographed). It has worked well and is clean and simple. The cover is printed on 120gsm light red uncoated stock from Gadsby's. The inside pages are printed on normal inkjet paper. Over all this has given it the effect that I was hoping for. A subtle red gives it that dangerous image, like blood. The pictures look a lot better printed in just black and white, no halftone. All I need now is a bag for it.

New Zine Layout

These are the new layouts for the zine. Just some minimal tweaking but well needed. Everything has been dropped down and is line up with the pictures, this makes it more pleasing to the eye. I have also just kept the pictures in black and white. They don't need to be halftones if I am not screen-printing them. This layout is nicer and utilizes the space better, like the zines I have been looking at.

Zine Mock up

This is just a small mock up for the zine. The layout doesn't look as good printed than on screen, I think it needs a little tweaking to be honest. The format works fine, but I wont halftone the images because when you laser print them they make a little pattern, so I will just keep them simple black and white. I still want to use coloured paper for the cover.

Zine

Ideas coming from the initial quick sketches. I don't want to spend too much time on this as it is a small part of the brief. The zine is a simple layout in a very zine like style. I think it works as it explains a brief outline of the films and explains what the posters are like. I want to print the deep black on some coloured paper, probably red (blood). This will hopefully give it a cool effect because just a little colour will shine through.

Another Unsuccessful Day Screen-printing

After stripping and re-exposing my screen two times it has come to my attention that I have put my screen down in a patch where someone hasn't cleaned up there glue. This is somewhat annoying as I was supposed to finish this brief a while back but it has just been dragging on for some time now. Instead of doing the whole thing again I think I will mock it up with a digital print and finish the screen-prints over Easter,

Test Prints

These are a couple of screen-print tests. I think the black works a lot better than the black with th red pictures. The black images are a lot easier to make out. The red looks a little garish and crude, in your face etc. I tried using just a little red for the HATE. I think this works really well as it is nice and subtle. As the is a word on every bottom line that has the A and the underline, I think I will use it everytime. It adds just a little something more to the prints.