What GENRE does your film belong to- horror, drama, comedy, etc.
-The genre of our film is drama and thriller.
What BIG PICTURE MESSAGE is your film is exploring?
-We are exploring the dark side of humanity and pursuit of power and strength.
Who are your CHARACTERS? How would you describe their personalities and motives?
- Beau Pierre——————
- Beau is an animal trainer. He is the son of Alexandro, and the next inheritor of the Lion Circus. He has an issue with overcoming animals gone wild. There’s shadow inside of him about Chris’s death.
- Chris Smithson————–
- Beau’s childhood friend, who had died in an accident. Chris used to bully Beau when they were kids; Beau’s father favors him. Alexandro had put more effort in him than Beau.
- Alexandro Pierre————
- Beau’s father, the owner of the Lion Circus, who is an extremely mean and aggressive person. Always beat Beau and humiliate him. Gives Beau infinite pressure but no love.
What HAPPENS in your story? How does it start, continue and end. Is there a moment of great conflict?
THE MAIN STORY:
- Beau is a simple Nebraska boy who grew up in a circus. He’s raised up by hi father, Alexandro, which is the owner of the Lion Circus. Beau has always wanted to be a great circus ringmaster; his dream is to be the most famous animal trainer in the world. He’s under the pressure from his father, who humiliates and beats him all the time. The father has been extremely strict at his son, but put much more effort in teaching Beau’s playmate, Chris. Chris has always been bullying Beau and made him think that he is weak. Unfortunately, the tragedy still happened to them. They were taught to be train the lion in the circus. Chris was making fun of Beau, just like what he had done to him everyday. Chris kept pushing Beau towards the lion and tried to make the lion roar at Beau so he could have cried out. Finally, the lion was roused and its paw hit Beau’s chest. Then the lion jumped over Beau and ran to Chris. The lion worried Chris’s head and killed him…. All of these terrifying scenes became the biggest nightmare of Beau’s. Later in Beau’s lifetime as an animal trainer, he never conquers the perfect training and always fear of lions gone wild. The shadow of losing his childhood friend roots in him and changes him into reticent. During the last training before the beginning of the final show, the lion gets out of control. It runs off from the cage. Beau has no way to flee away from it. After all these years, all the emotions inside himself finally explode. He has to kill the lion in order to keep himself safe. While he was fighting with the lion, he feels that the fight from the lion is just like him against with his old friend Chris. It makes his heat goes chaos. Then he killed the lion with a dagger stuck into its’ heart. By the death of the lion, the dark side inside of Beau, which is to kill his old friend who had killed by the lion. At that moment, Beau believes that he gained that power. He feels he was powerful enough to get over his fear and transform into the strong power (since the lion and his friend both represent that power). He wants to become the strongness itself. At the end, Beau performances the most perfect and unbelievable circus show on the stage, which he receives the most resounding applause from people. Beau’s father founds the hidden dead lion backstage, which killed by Beau. His father is ultimately furious at him. However, what his father only cares about is the loss of the lion. Beau imagines himself being the symbol of the strong power. He always wanted to fight against his father’s violence. The fight between the son and the father ends up with Beau killing his father. He stabs his own father, with the exact same dagger that he uses to kill the lion. Before his father dead, what his father sees in the eyes is a wild animal. The terrifying creature in front of him is not his son, but something else. Beau becomes a lion. He loses his mind, and all he lefts is the bestiality in his heart.
Poster Examples———
Poster 1
POINTS OF A LINE, A FILM BY SARAH MORRIS, 2010
We chose this poster because we like how it looks like a collage, and is composed by different dimensions. It’s a clash of 3d image and 2d drawings, but it reaches a harmony when they meet. We also like the color scheme, the bright red and jet black creates great contrast and thus attracts the attention from the viewers. It shows the viewer which is the central of the poster and what is the most important.
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Poster 2
POSTER, DZIECKO ROSEMARY [ROSEMARY’S BABY], 1984
This is a poster designed by Andrzej Pagowski. Its medium is offset lithograph. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and combined with Graphic Design.
Andrzej Pagowski’s illustration subtly depicts the premise behind director Roman Polanski’s psychological horror film. The poster only hints at what sinister events may occur: the blown-up image of a woman’s hand holding a small grotesque claw is hand-drawn, with expressive sketch lines, in bright colors with a bold outline. Much is left to the viewer to decipher. Polish posters do not often “advertise” what they depict and instead provide space for consumers to draw their own conclusions.
The use of illustration technique and minimize use of color create a clean but dramatic picture of the poster. There are only five colors in the whole poster which are red, pink, black, white and green. But the use of these colors creates a sense of rich layer. Especially the prints on the right hand and the clean hand on the left creates a contrast which is very helpful to the balance of the poster.
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Poster 3
POSTER, 1960/61 STADTTHEATER BASEL
[POSTER FOR THE 1960-61 SEASON OF THE CITY THEATER, BASEL]
The poster is designed by Armin Hofmann. In this poster, the designer uses drawings and prints to create a peculiar sense of feeling. We select this as one of our inspirations, because of it is a visually strong portrait photograph with good arrangement of design. The blank space in the back gives us more imaginations. The color using in this poster is simple and clean, but it is not boring either. We can feel the emotions of this person, it is like telling a story and his reaction is grabbing our attentions.
Moodboard & Inspirations
Make a style statement for your team poster. What are your goals for the poster media, color, mood and type?
-Style Statement
Our goals for the poster media is digital based. We want to simplify the color range and focus on the main character and his emotions. With the use of dark color to create a mood of darkness. And we also want to make the poster more suspicious, so that the audiences will interact with the poster once they see it. The type of our poster would be photograph and after effect.
Make a communication goal for your team poster. What is the main message of your poster? How does this message relate to your movie plot?
-Communication Goal
We aim to express the psychic state of the Beau through our poster. We want to let the viewers feel the madness and how he “become” a lion himself at the end of the film. Through the poster, it would be ideal if the viewers start to think about the dark side of humanity and how people cannot help themselves from falling into this state. This is the scene after the main character killed the lion, and going through a transformation.
