Design boards 7. James Bond poster series

The brief
To expand my dissertation outcome and create an illustrated series of posters that would act as a fan made series, or limited run collector's edition range of prints.
The outcome for the dissertation brief felt rushed and incomplete due to time constraints and the main focus being on the essay piece.
Upon completion of the dissertation module I only had a poster designed for one film that didn't directly relate to the research gathered in my dissertation.
This poster series would focus more around the attributes of illustrated posters and less around the theory gathered from the topic of my dissertation.
The Research
The research revolved around previous sucesfful illustrated film posters and most famously Michael Gillette's series of psychedelic James Bond posters that purely just feature the females of the films and don't in any way convey the stories.
A direct redesign of these posters would promote the topics discussed in my dissertation due to the James Bond series not focussing around the bodies of these women, and James Bond being a womaniser is just one part of his character.
Idea generation
The idea and style of design for the posters would be developed from the initial poster created as a dissertation response.
The style of illustration has great emphasis on the mood of the film I found, with the harsh black lines against the white back ground giving the posters a morose and emotional feeling.
The posters would represent a small part of the story, encapsulating Bond's feelings at that stage in the film.
Four posters in total would be created representing each of Daniel Craig's Bond films, this could eventually be expanded to a poster for each film, with there being over fifteen films in total this would be a lot of work to create a series of posters for the entire amount of Bond films.
Development
Poster size was something to be considered, usually film posters are printed on a massive scale but in this instance the style of illustration was creating using a line following machine in the digital print room  and the largest size of paper this accepted was A2.
The visual outcome of the prints was dependent on how the machine behaved that day, with some of the prints varying in darkness and shade in comparison to the others.
The Spectre outcome was too similar to the Skyfall one in my opinion with Bond having the same stance and expression as the other poster, that when presented on a wall in a series the posters looked too similar.

Outcome

The final outcomes, visually in my opinion were great, functioning as a great series of posters that could be sold as limited run prints to fans of James Bond, for this reason the criteria were fulfilled.
Considering the end of year show and the piece of work I intend to submit, the best poster, Quantum of Solace would work great in large scale such as A0 therefore the poster is being developed onto that size, but as the machine can only print onto A2, the design has been split into four quarters and is being printed separately.
The final posters don't greatly represent the theory gathered from my dissertation surrounding females in film posters but the posters are a great improvement on Michael Gillette's, as they represent the story of the films rather than the female's bodies.