Macbeth Posters

These are 3 Macbeth posters I created for my recent advertising project. The task was to create 2 posters for Shakespeare stories. I chose Macbeth as I  enjoyed this the play and I thought it was the best choice for me. I created these pieces by first making them on paper, then scanning them in and editing them on Adobe Illustrator. 

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This first Poster was created by first doing a monoprint of a crown on black paper, I scanned it in and opened it up on Photoshop to change the levels and hue to make a more of a brown and green colour instead of white. I then transferred it to Illustrator and converted it to a vector with the live trace tool and flattened the colours out to get the desired effect. I then added the title of the play, this is in the same style and font as my storyboard, I did this to make it have an identifiable relation. 

The second poster I created relates directly to my storyboards last few frames. I mixed them together and used lots of black in the background to make the image stand out. I tried to go for a minimalistic style using symbolism which I feel I achieved here.

I wanted to created a crown using a wild looking style of thin scratchy looking lines. I did this to portray the emotions in the play. I first drew this out on paper then scanned it in and using the live trace tool in Illustrator turned it into a vector, I then recoloured it to white and sized and placed it so the composition looked right, to help me do this I used the rulers and align to artboard tools.