In the spirit of Halloween and my zombie obsession, I did a movie poster featuring these subjects. I found a great filter in Photoshop called cutout which allowed me to give the cover a graphic novel look to it, which I personally really like. For the man in the foreground I actually used a picture of a guy holding a shot gun from a "Stargate: SG1" image, but the head on the body was not rendering well. From the previous lecture, I had found an image of one of the Lincoln assassination conspirators Lewis Powell. I was very struck by this black and white image, due to the intense emotion of the face. Even rendered in photoshop, the face still has an almost haunted look about it. The zombies in the background are actually two layers of the same image. One is made smaller and also edited a little so it looks different enough. If you look closely at the picture, you can tell some of the zombies are actually repeats.
I like how you used a limited palette on this.
ReplyDeleteIf you go to the ITunes store and "iTunes U," there is a free podcast of a class about zombie narratives in popular culture. I think it was taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and is about seven lectures.
http://dialog.ua.edu/2009/11/uas-itunes-u-site-continues-traffic-growth/
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