NOW SHOWING: KK Noire (Coming Soon Exhibition 2011)
NOW SHOWING: KK Noire
Starring: Brendan Corcoran, Sara Begley, Aoibhín Murphy, Alan Dawson & Thomas Donoghue.
Plot: Judas McNulty (Corcoran) discovers that not everything in life is black and amber.
Rating: Predictable
‘Coming Soon: An Exhibition Of Fake Movie Posters‘ is now showing in the Watergate Theatre. Monday to Saturday. 10am to 6pm until January 13th 2012. Admission is FREE.
About The Poster
KK Noire was the second poster I started for the exhibition, although it didn’t get finished until I had shot all of the others and it was originally called something else and the first two design attempts were complete failures.
The concept came from an overdose of films like Miller’s Crossing and Road To Perdition versus those real-life characters around Kilkenny. I knew Brendan Corcoran would make a cool looking gangster character, I pictured him as such when I read a script for a short film by John Morton. So much so that I “borrowed” the character name ‘Judas’ for the poster (sorry John, for stealing your ideas). He’s not the main character in the script, so I wanted the fake poster to be a sort of prequel, one that tells the story of how Judas became who he is in that film. I did add the name ‘McNulty’ to round it out and make him like those real characters around the town, they always have a full name, and it always sounds made up. That was the idea anyway, that and a very vague mystery!
Brendan was very interested in the project, he found the idea fascinating and was easily the most prepared actor when it came to the shoot. He arrived in costume with a bag full of props and a head full of ideas to add to mine. We shot them all; from Morgan Freeman style poses to creating fake moments to show fake scenes in the fake film. I then got to work on two failed attempts and when I couldn’t get it right, I moved on to the next poster leaving this to edit in my brain for a while first, slowly picking up the extra elements along the way.
The skyline shot of Kilkenny came from my balcony, it’s an awesome view and it’s one of the only ways to see the old MacDonagh train station, which is blocked off from ground level. The shot of Sara Begley was taken from the same shoot I got the shots of Gemma & Sarah from, for the Butterslip Mile poster. The shot of Aoibhínn Murphy was an alternative shot taken during a shoot for another poster (coming soon). The shots of Alan Dawson and Thomas Donoghue were taken when the lads called in to the studio to do some tests for a music video concept.
After a few weeks of thinking about it, a title change plus a suitable tag-line/really bad pun, a new layout idea and a few hours of figuring out how to make it all do what I wanted… the poster came together.
‘Coming Soon: An Exhibition Of Fake Movie Posters‘ is now showing in the Watergate Theatre. Monday to Saturday. 10am to 6pm until January 13th 2012. Admission is FREE.
