COLD CALLS by John Whalen featuring Blanchard Ryan (OpenWater) & Ben Bailey (CashCab)

Hey Jack,

The subtleties of great design are always a matter of opinion. In MY opinion, I think you really hit it on the nose with your latest poster. When the lips were of the skin-tone it felt like you had slapped it on the phone in a hurried MS Paint job. Now that you've given it another dimension with the tongue and teeth remaining their normal hues, I think you've got a winner on your hands.

Now, I also think the entirely blue phone has it's place. Why draw so much attention to the mouth? I think it's a nice surprise we could stumble upon. Maybe it should even be on the bottom of the phone?

If you really want me to critique the poster as a whole, I'd be happy to, but sometimes I feel like I get too concerned with it and forget that we're in a filmmaking community here...

Mike is a total pro as well. I'm interested to see/hear his take.

Either way, I can't get "Urinal Cakes" out of my head.

Anyone else?
 
Hey thanks, Dustin, everyone.

Thanks for the feedback Kyle. I might agree with you on straight blue for purely aesthetic reasons, like if it was just art - but for it to function as I want it to, i.e. to grab your attention, I want to, well, grab your attention. So that's why I'd call attention to the weird freaky part of the poster. As for ear vs. mouthpiece, the film is about a guy that says wackturtle shi* to someone on the phone, so the mouth needs to come out of the ear. (Dunno if you remember but there was a Freddy Kruger movie where it comes out of the mouthpiece and tries to make out with the chick on the other end?) Also would want it up on the ear to, again, grab attention. I want you to glance at it and go "whoa wtf is that?", not appreciate it and discover the ear in the process of appretiation. I think your sugestion about an all blue or calling less attention to the mouth is aesthetically sophisticated, but not as effective of an attention getter.

Anyway, thanks for your critique, obviously you've helped me make it better with your input. I've become increasingly impressed with your design work. :beer:
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
Anyway, thanks for your critique, obviously you've helped me make it better with your input. I've become increasingly impressed with your design work. :beer:
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Are you kidding? The guy's a hack! He likes zombies for pete's sake ... what could he possibly know about design?



Ok, I'm just kidding :evil: I actually agree with Jack. Kyle's design style and work seem to improve with each piece he offers up.
 
funny you should say that , new new version up getting rid of orange text
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Jack Daniel Stanley said:
Anyway, thanks for your critique, obviously you've helped me make it better with your input. I've become increasingly impressed with your design work. :beer:
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Thanks, Jack. It's funny how designers and artists come into their own. During our last creative class we were to bring in 5 samples of good food packaging from 5 different categories. ALL of mine possessed clean, elegant patterns and simple, almost luxurious color tones. Certainly nothing like the Dead Week poster or like yours (though you've come much closer now that you've switched from the bright orange to the darker red). - Anyway, other people in the class brought packages with loud, vibrant color schemes claiming that it helped sell them with the "WHOA!" factor -- that it "stood off the shelf" -- you know.... like you said... "what the &^% is that?! a tongue coming out of a phone!??!"

-- and while I think sophistication is a sign of clever design, others may disagree.

Truthfully, a GOOD design is one that executes it's original idea the best that it can. That being said, I still think posters need a certain amount of polish... the likes of which aren't all too common around here (though I'm slowly being convinced otherwise with the advent of this festival).

Anyway, I appreciate your change of color in the poster and will only say more if you ask. Let's hear an update on the filmmaking, brotha!

P.S. I chose the HyVee brand of Crispix called "Crispy Hexagons" as my choice for BAD package design.
I have to redesign the box by monday. (No, this is not me in the video)
 
Larry R said:
Are you kidding? The guy's a hack! He likes zombies for pete's sake ... what could he possibly know about design?



Ok, I'm just kidding :evil: I actually agree with Jack. Kyle's design style and work seem to improve with each piece he offers up.
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Nice looking poster - it reminds me of the design from the italian "Memphis-Design-Group" (Ettore Sottsass, Michele de Lucchi, Matteo Thun,......) from the 80's. Who did the design of your poster?
BTW - Best wishes! :D

Susanne
 
Thanks all.

Susanne I had to look up Memphis Design Group, but I definitely see why you'd say that. Colors and even some of the lines.

Swamped with some stuff, hope to have some good updates soon ...
 
Hey man, we were cleaning the shack, which was almost unbearably filthy, and we came across our copy of the Cold Calls script. Man, it read well and with these great actors in mind, it read even more sweetly. John Whalen has gotta be stoked.
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
Thanks all.

Susanne I had to look up Memphis Design Group, but I definitely see why you'd say that. Colors and even some of the lines.

Swamped with some stuff, hope to have some good updates soon ...
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The colours yes, but it's more a question of the language of the form - Memphis proposed the opposite of the pure functionalism of the design-object, creating it with fantasy for fun and enjoyment as well as functionality. This "Anti-Design" was a radical break and caused a scandal. I see something of the same thing in your telephone receiver with its mouth.

Susanne
 
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