FINAL SCREENING: Jail Bait (Coming Soon Exhibition 2011)
NOW SHOWING: Jail Bait
Starring: Aoibhín Murphy, Alexandra Christle and Ruth Phelan.
Plot: A teen movie with sexy consequences. Directed by Angela Barrett.
Rating: OMG
This is your last chance to catch ‘Coming Soon: An Exhibition Of Fake Movie Posters‘, it comes to a close in the Watergate Theatre tomorrow.
About The Poster
Jail Bait was the last poster I shot and completed for the exhibition, it took a bit more organisation than the others as I didn’t really know a suitable cast for a sexy teen movie type poster so I asked Angela Barrett to help me with the shoot.
She talked to the girls, explained the idea and arranged for them to come in to the studio, she even came to the shoot to help direct the girls, that’s why she’s the only director credited in the exhibition. Thanks Angela!
Shoot-wise it was the only poster that I tried to get full-length shots of the characters. Given my limited lighting set-up and space with the green screen it proves very tricky to get a proper key when you get to the feet. There’s a lot of shadows and issues. I ended up having a lot of green spill on their shoes and lower legs, I used a couple of different techniques to get rid of it but the easiest one was to simply cover it all with a big colourful glow around the title.
Design-wise I wanted the poster to be very colourful, I think it’s my favourite colour-wise. I played around with different background colour schemes for about a week before I settled on this one, looking at some of the rejects now, they’re hidious!
The title for the movie is pretty explanatory if you look at it for a while but it did originally have a tag-line to really reinforce the idea, I showed the poster to several people before going to print and the reaction was always the same; “you can’t put that on a poster!”. I eventually gave in to the fear of it being too controversial which would have taken from all of the posters so pulled it before going to print. It was pretty bad!
This is your last chance to catch ‘Coming Soon: An Exhibition Of Fake Movie Posters‘, it comes to a close in the Watergate Theatre tomorrow.
