COP: Olly Moss As An Influence

This is a video I watched on Olly Moss! He was suggested to me to have a look at as most of his work is very minimalist but captures the spirit of the film. For COP I want to do posters (i think) for the final piece so he's worth looking at for my practice.

I like his work but he hasn't done too many horror posters. He has done a lot popular/recognised movies which is something that interests me personally because i like to see a twist put on the posters and I think he manages that. As far as his process goes, he creates the posters in photoshop before and a lot of them are screenprinted (mostly because his work works well screenprinted, and also because he is often comissioned to do limited edition runs of posters for comic cons or special movie premiers).

Let Me In (pictured) is a western version of the european horror movie "let the right one in". Although not a stunning poster, it does capture the main themes of the film without revealing too much about the plot. It does reveal two figures, morse code and two red dots placed near the neck, suggesting vampires are involved somehow and linked into this.

Watching the video about his work was good because he talks about how content is inseparable from the medium, so it's important to think about where your work belongs before you make it. He talks about how his earlier stuff wasn't made with Tee Shirts in mind, rather it was an idea he had that he just happened to submit to a TeeShirt company (threadless). He also talks about how a weak execution can ruin a good concept, some of his stuff he points out as having good ideas behind them but the design work is not considered enough to make the work good over all. "Every terrible thing you put on the internet stays there".