One Sheet

This will be the One Sheet for my film. The log line "A festival, a foreigner, a fabulous experience" basically describes what my film is about. Making a film about Tanabata I, as a non-Japanese person, don't take the right to be able to show what the festival is about. That's why I want to present it of a foreign point of view, by having a visually clearly foreign main character.

This image will serve as poster and DVD cover for my film. I will change the font of TanaBata though, and make it more matching to my film, as I only rushed this one for the pitch.

The following are seperate elements of the one sheet:

The character to the left has features of a cow, a woman and a demon. The characters to the right, the octopus on flying stars, are just there because when I was on Tanabata festival I saw more octopus and fish than cows (but that was probably because all of the takoyaki stalls). Anyway they will appear in the animation.

Here I took the shadows away from Hiko. I haven't decided yet wether to leave them on or not. Looking on the poster design under this aspect afterwards, makes her looking sort of creepy and I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing, as I actually planned the strong shadows right from the beginning.

The gate designs have very purposely unrealistic lightings, almost shining which makes them look abstact. I also wanted to bring in stupid looking "baka" cows with red eyes. Not sure if they will actually appear as characters or rather as decoration ( as their style resembles to some extent the one of the festival folk).

The one on the left is my first coloured sketch of a one sheet which I started during the summer holiday. I didn't have a lot of drawing equipment with me, so I started colouring it with some odinary pencils. It looks quite crappy but includes already all of the important features for the final design. In my final One Sheet I actually traced the outlines from this design and then scanned and coloured them in Photoshop, of which you can see an early coloured stage on the right.