NOW SHOWING: Sketch Five-O (Coming Soon Exhibition 2011)
NOW SHOWING: Sketch Five-O
Starring: John Morton and Ken McGuire
Plot: The buddiest most action-packed buddy-cop action movie of all time!
Rating: Shite
‘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
And so we come to Sketch Five-O. It’s a combination of so many ideas that I don’t know where to start talking about it. The idea has been in my head for years, taking various shapes and forms in script ideas for a short film that would simply be the buddiest most action-packed buddy cop movie of all time! Taking inspiration from films like Hot Fuzz, Lethal Weapon and Tango & Cash.
In my head the cast has also featured many different faces, but when it came to the poster it had to be John Morton and Ken McGuire putting on the uniforms. I think without a doubt the number 1 comment I hear about this poster is how much Ken looks like a guard! And it’s also hilarious how people never recognize a black-haired angry John Morton (he’s clearly not a Goth!).
I shot the lads within a a couple of days of each other, having got my hands on a Garda uniform thanks to Alan Slattery in Mycrofilms. I told John & Ken each the basic idea, gave them the uniform and let them do the rest. In my head, Ken’s the “by-the-book” higher ranking one and John’s the dog-biscuit-eating wild one of the duo.
The shoots were fun. It’s not every day you get to be a guard and the lads made the most of it. I played around with lighting and colour balances to make sure I’d have an easy job separating the high-vis jacket from the green screen and this is the first poster where I really start trying to add some atmosphere to the background. The photos of the town hall and Kilkenny Castle were taken on a lovely sunny day, if you look closly between the two lads you’ll spot a dude strolling around enjoying the sun. I didn’t spot that fecker until I saw the A0 size print! I added a cloudy sky, some fog and rain and then gave the whole poster a colour tone to match it all up.
This was also the first poster where I realised the power of the blurb! Those extra little sentences can really help set the tone and idea of the movie. They let me say that little bit more in one way or another. It’s the blurbiest poster so far!
‘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.
