I had a lot of fun with this assignment! I chose one of my favorite movies, October Sky. It’s not an 80s movie, but it is officially October now!

I love this movie for a lot of reasons, but the main one (and my reason for a lot of the things I like) is that it’s nostalgic. I watched it for the first time with my dad and I associate the movie with him. Besides, it’s a pretty inspiring movie.

When designing it, I chose to go as minimalist as possible and just had a basic rocket outline with the two stars I, personally, recognize the most. I chose a blue background to represent the clear, blue skies.

I really like the finished product. It’s really simple, but I’m weirdly proud of it.

Here’s a pic of my cat for the end of this post. Just to shake things up a bit.

3.5 Stars

I realized while I was creating this poster, that the Ghostbusters movie poster was minimalist in the first place. So then I had to decide how to explain what happened in a different minimalistic way. I really like the way this photo turned out! I used Canva in order to get everything set up the way I wanted it to. Made the ghost picture transparent, but for some reason, Canva didn’t think so which is why my background is white.

This assignment was fairly easy as compared to some of the other ones I have worked on as of late. I had just went and seen this movie with my father last weekend and I remembered my expectations of it before watching it. My “truth” pretty much sums up my expectations and what exactly the movie was about.

When I googled the movie poster I had several options to choose from. I decided on the one I used as it had lots of space on the poster to work with for me to add my “truth” to it. I downloaded it to my phone and used an app called Typorama. The app had several fonts, typography and styles to use and this one seemed to fit and I added red as opposed to white or gray to go along with the red 3.

For this assignment, I had to make a movie or tv poster in a minimalist way. I decided to do one for the movie Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. The movie is definitely a tear-jerker, but one of my favorites.

The assignment was linked in this week’s “weekly assignment” blog so I thought I’d give it a go! It was a pretty easy assignment overall, but it required you to think. I chose a picture of a DVD because in the movie the main character, Greg, and his best friend, Earl, make their own versions of classic or foreign movies. When Rachel, the dying girl, gets diagnosed with cancer, they begin to make movies for her- hence the DVD in my poster. I was originally going to use a picture of all the movies that Greg and Earl made, but after looking at other examples from people who had already done the assignment, I realized that picture wouldn’t meet the minimalist requirement.

I used Canva to make the movie poster. I would definitely suggest this site to graphic design beginners! There are so many tools and cool designs on there, and it makes the process REALLY easy and fun!

I selected the poster template and then selected a grey background. I put in my own text and cropped it the way it looks now. When I chose the DVD image, it was red and orange, but I felt like the best way to keep with the minimalist theme was to keep the colors neutral. The great thing about Canva is that you can change the colors of images you want to add to your design.

I would definitely suggest this assignment to other students in the class! Don’t forget to check out my Instagram post about it as well!