Applied Illustration SB2: THE LOST BOYS - poster development

FILM POSTER 3: THE LOST BOYS (1987)

Dir: Joel Schumacher. 

Starring: Kiether Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Jason Patric

After becoming beyond frustrated with ploughing so many hours getting nowhere with the Predator poster, gave myself a break - by starting from scratch on ThE LoSt BoYs poster design, where it really hit me that i don't know what I'm doing anymore with these, yet i continued to sit in front of the computer for hours on end, in the hope of producing something i'm satisfied with.


POSSIBLE COMPOSITION FILM ELEMENTS TO BE INCLUDED:

• David,  leader of the Lost Boys.(as seen on the majority of the films promotional material)
• Chinese takeaway box of rice/maggots or noodles/worms
• The Santa Carla broadwalk, featuring Rollercoaster & fairground silhouettes 
• 'Welcome to Santa Carla' painted sign typeface.
• Deer & antelope skulls
• Santa Carla rail bridge, that the lost boys hang off during the film.
• Candles
•Wooden stake, garlic, holy water
• 'Death by Stereo' - one the one liners from the film
• Bottle of Blood

• Full moon

After spending a good while collecting suitable reference images to mould into the final design, my earlier worries about basing it around a film with main character who doesn't have as strong physical appearance as a Predator or a Robot cop are beginning to be realised somewhat . But as i've spent the majority of the module developing the aesthetics of the other two posters i'll have to stick it out and try and make it fit in the series with what little time i have left. I though once i'd nailed the production process in the first poster design, the others would be pretty straight forward, but it hasn't really turned out that way, as some design processes just don't transfer across to other subject matters as seamlessly as i'd ideally of liked. Or maybe they do, and it's just a case of me thinking about it too much and making issues for myself that aren't really there.

Current mock up. Got the grid involved in the background- this time in the form of the wooden struts from the rollercoaster and fairground rides found on Santa Carla broadwalk - where you first meet the gang of vampires at the opening of the film.

I planned ahead and found a typeface match. A bit of tinkering in Illustrator with the kerning & letter sizes, and bobs your uncle - replica Lost Boys movie poster typeface. Now, i just need poster to go with it!