Ancillary Task – Saul Bass Film Poster Research

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ANCILLARY TASK – SAUL BASS FILM POSTER RESEARCH A2 Media Studies

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ANCILLARY TASK – SAUL BASS FILM

POSTER RESEARCHA2 Media Studies

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SAUL BASS Saul Bass was born on May 8th 1920 and died April 25th 1996. He was a graphic designer and filmmaker, most commonly known for his design of film posters and title sequences. During his 40-year career Bass worked for some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Billy Wilder. One of his most famous title sequence is the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm.

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SUCH GOOD FRIENDSThis film poster is extremely effective but very simplistic. The use of the naked dismembered legs is very visually appealing as well as intriguing, it suggests a possible aspect of the storyline to the audience but says nothing definite. The use of the dismembered legs also link very closely to my film trailer as a number of dismembered shots of limbs were used in my trailer. This could be a possible route to explore further when creating my film poster.

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ANATOMY OF A MURDERThis poster, along with the majority of Saul’s other film posters, has a very simple background. However, this poster’s background is slightly different from the one in the previous slide as it appears to have a very slight mosaic theme to it. The way the two blocks of colour are positioned slightly of line and the red one has a rough edge create an arty feel. It also links well with the idea of murder, that something isn’t fitting together. The use of orange and red works very well also, due to their connotations of blood, danger and anger. Despite my film trailer not including murder I can take from this poster in that all the separate parts need to work together to create one whole image over all. I will do this by looking deeply into the connotations of things, the positioning/layout and the typography.

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SAINT JOAN

This poster is extremely clever and it is clear that Saul had a limitless imagination and could create great imagery to represent the films stories. The clever imagery of the broken man and cross suggests an interesting insight to the storyline. Just like the last poster I looked at, but this one more so, there is a mosaic theme going on. The use of textured, multi coloured titles creates a perfect background, thought-provoking yet not distracting from the main image. The use of the white typography makes the title very clear and easy to read which is always key in a film poster.