- Hey everyone.
Today's video is a little bit different than usual.
I'm gonna be taking on the challenge of designing
a poster for my favorite movie in 15 minutes or less.
So this video is in collaboration with a
design YouTuber friend of mine, Katie.
Her channel is katherinethe19th
and she makes videos about design and creativity
and also vlogs as well, from her life.
So if you like my channel, you're probably gonna like hers,
so you should definitely check her out.
We're doing this challenge because we saw our friends
Holly and Borja do it a few weeks ago as a collab,
and I thought it worked really well,
it seemed really fun, so shout out to them,
their videos were awesome and they're linked
down below in the description.
You should go over and check them out.
So what we're gonna do is Katie and I
are both designing our own posters separately,
and then we're gonna hope on Skype with each other to
critique them and that'll be the second half of this video.
I'm a bit nervous because design for a poster like this
is not normally done in such a short amount of time
and I definitely wouldn't encourage you to rush
through design things, but I don't know,
it's fun to take on as a challenge, right,
and it's good to force yourself to do some rapid
prototyping and some rapid thinking
and just trust your gut, I suppose, with design decisions.
'Cause there's not gonna be time to sit
and think things through.
I'm just going to have to make decisions quickly,
so, should be fun.
I've got lots of favorite movies, but
the movie that I'm going to make a poster for
in this challenge is Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
I wanna try and do some hand drawn elements to it
because the titles for the movie feature
these little drawings and animations
and I just think they're really cool,
and so that could fit in quite well.
But, let's see how we go.
I guess, let's dive in.
I'm setting my timer for 15 minutes,
starting from now.
Okay, so how these two main characters meet
is through a mixed CD, so I'm gonna make
it a bit old school, and I'm gonna draw a mixed tape,
so I've just pulled up some reference imagery here.
Oh my god my drawing is gonna be so terrible.
I feel really stressed for some reason.
This doesn't need to be good.
Let's just embrace the hand drawn style, huh?
Why have I done this to myself?
Now, there ain't no time to do any proper vectorizing
so what I'm going to do is use the Adobe Capture app
because you can like, take a photo of something,
and it'll turn it into a vector.
See, it's made a vector from my drawing,
and I'm just gonna tap, "save shape,"
and now it's in my library.
So only 15 minutes, you really have to just
go with your first idea.
Okay, so, now, I'm in Illustrator, I have an A3 canvas
set up, and as you can see, my shapes are in my library.
So that's great. (upbeat rock music)
Right, let's get some text in here.
I think I want...
I'm gonna go for a display sans serif, I think.
What's this guy?
Okay, Canter, that looks good.
This is way more stressful than I thought it was gonna be.
Oh, that's cool, yep, we're gonna
make use of that, for sure.
I have three minutes left.
I really wanted to, I don't know,
just do more, in general.
Ideally, I would like to add some stripes to this,
like the text effect has, but yeah,
there's not time for that.
(alarm sounding) Oh.
Welp, there's my finished poster.
Not too bad for 15 minutes, I don't think, but
definitely not my best work.
I don't know if it's the best representation of the movie,
but, at least there was a reason behind
all the decisions I was making in that
very stressful 15 minutes.
I'm really looking forward to seeing how Katie
went with this challenge, so the next step
is to jump on Skype with her
and critique each other's posters.
Alright, so now I have Katie with me,
over via Skype, and in this split screen right here
and she's gonna present her poster to me
and tell me about her favorite movie,
why she chose it, and some of the design decisions
that she made, so take it away, Katie.
- Awesome.
Let's get started.
So, I made my poster about Moulin Rouge,
which is one of my favorite movies.
So I decided to try and represent the movie
and I think the most iconic sort of image
that is used throughout, and that is the big windmill
that's on top of the Moulin Rouge.
And I kind of wanted to do it in a sort of minimalist
style, so I started out with the black and grays
of the windmill, and then I wanted to sort of create
a sunset in the background, and then I just
pulled in that color again for the title.
- First of all, I love the color palette
that you've picked for this.
I think it works really well.
And I didn't really get sunset from it,
but what I did get from it was like,
something a bit like sexy and sensual.
I don't know, I think it just fits well
with the dancers and things, I think that's cool.
The windmill was a good choice for imagery,
because immediately, before I even
scrolled down to see the text, I had guessed
what is was gonna be about, so that's good.
I really like the depth you've given the text here.
Was that just, I don't know,
what was your reasoning behind that?
Was there, like, extra time, so you thought you'd
try out this technique?
- Yeah, yeah, I've like, used the inner drop
shadow before and I feel like it adds something
to especially just like a pretty simple sans serif font,
so, I feel like there wasn't a ton of intention
other than just like, oh this would look kind of cool.
- Yeah, the layers is cool, because I think it fits
with the layers of colors that you have.
I would say obviously, if there was more time,
because there was only 15 minutes
and we all saw how stressed that I got during this process.
I think adding that shadow idea to more of the piece
would work well, so adding some depth, maybe,
through subtle gradients in the windmill
so it sort of looks like the, what are the called?
Spokes? Or whatever they are,
are coming out from behind the circle in the middle.
That could be cool as a way to take this further, I suppose.
Yeah, that's my feedback.
But I like it.
Good job for 15 minutes.
- Awesome, thank you.
- If you wanna see what Katie thinks of my poster
and some critique that she has for me,
make sure you head on over to her channel
and check it out.
Do you wanna give a quick pitch of what
you make videos about, Katie?
- Yeah, so over on my channel,
katherinethe19th, I make almost daily vlogs
and videos in a series that I call Creator Club,
that's all about teaching people how
to make awesome YouTube videos and other videography
and photography tips.
- There you go.
Like I said at the start, if you like my channel,
you're probably gonna like hers,
so head on over, give her a subscribe,
and check out the other side of this collab over there.
- Awesome. - Give this video a thumbs up
if you enjoyed it, and I will see you next time.
Bye. - Bye.