Cut Out Discrimination Film Festival
Poster & Cards
Design History
My film festival poster displays illustrations as seen on my cards collaged together to create an ambiguous shape. A dotted line was added around all of the characters to portray that discrimination needs to be cut out as a whole, whether it’s looks, race, intelligence, or sexism, no one should feel discriminated against.
For each movie, I designed a card that has vector illustrations using only two colors. White was a color used in each design along with a contrasting bright 50s color that created negative space to help differentiate what’s being discriminated against. By adding a dotted line element around each shape that was being discriminated against help to unify all of the cards and relate back to my title and concept, “Cut Out Discrimination.” On the back of each card I used the same illustration from the front but used only flat colors in the same positioning as the characters are on my poster design. The dotted lines created a path for the reader to find important information about the Film Festival.
Hairspray’s cast was nothing short of perfection and had strictly biased opinions about letting talent on their show other than attractive, skinny white people. Therefore, I displayed different body types using negative space and dotted lines to show what is being discriminated against.
The Help was a movie aimed at race. The help were black maids/nannys who were forbidden to use the toilets in the houses they were cleaning and looking after, better known as the white people's toilet. Instead they were given an outhouse for them to go to the bathroom in. As seen on the card, I created a sideview and frontal view of a toilet to express the segregation that the help had to go through.
Grease was a controversial movie about sexism because of how dependent the women were on a man and how men viewed women based on their looks. Grease stereotypes women and men to be wealthy, drive nice cars, be popular and good-looking. To show sexism, I chose to create a silhouette of the main character, Danny wearing sunglasses with the shape and outline of a woman's body.
Forrest Gump was always made fun as a child and as he got older because of his disabilities in school and his inability to walk without braces. He may have had a small brain but he made up for it with his huge heart shown on the front of the card through negative space and color.
