Film update. Poster being made

I have also recently made the decision to have somebody make me a poster for the film. Normally I would have done this myself, like I would have done many other aspects of the film myself but I realised that to truly start to work in a more professional manner I need to work with more people and dictate and of course direct what I want them to do. This seems quite a strong way of putting as most of the people I am working with I know and trust but have branched out in getting actors and actresses on board who I haven’t worked with before and also the same for somebody to the score. This has been great actually as it has slightly lessened the stress of having to do it all myself but has also give me the confidences to speak and communicate with people to what I want them to do and what their role is and so far nobody has let me down in this. It also gives me a different view in approaching the work and allows me the ability to control the areas I need to control. Of course in a bigger film I would still be covering less roles and I would need to accept that I cannot control the cinematography like I want to in this piece as well. It is been hard trying to let go of the desire to do this and just do a standard directors role but I trust Tom and his ability to allow me to step away from that slightly although I feel I will probably still do some parts of the cinematography and camerawork just be sure. I have already warned people that I may not be polite or as friendly as I am outside of this project and apologised in advance if I shout, lose my temper or basically act like an arsehole, to anybody on set.

Anyway going back to the original point I wished to make which was the poster design. I have employed an illustrator friend to take on this role who’s ability I greatly trust and given him the loose idea I wanted for the poster. Which was a very simple idea of somebodies face with a mute sign for a mouth. I also asked him to throw some ideas my way after I sent him the script and development work and asked him to riff some ideas. One of the ideas he came back with which I am very enthusiastic about is the idea of the mouth being ripped away as from a paper and the name of the film being revealed which I am very excited about seeing how this turns out. I am just waiting for the head shots of our male actor so I can sent it to him so I can design the poster using the look of the lead actor. Which I hope I will get soon so we can start to get on.