| WHAT IT IS |
Award-winning filmmaker Tiffany Shlain invites graphic designers to submit their designs for a movie poster for her new film, CONNECTED. The poster will promote the film, and it will be considered for a Key Art Award, an honor given by The Hollywood Reporter for the year’s best movie marketing materials. |
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| WHO IT’S FOR |
Tiffany is seeking a graphic designer who can create a movie poster that represents her film CONNECTED. The film explores the connections between the major issues of our time — the environment, population growth, technology, human rights, and the global economy – demonstrating how they are all interdependent. Tiffany is looking for a designer who can capture both the concepts and the feelings conveyed in the movie, which combines powerful visuals, humor, animation, irony, and serious messages. For more details about the film, visit www.connectedthefilm.com |
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| WHO IT’S FROM |
Honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, artist, founder of The Webby Awards, and co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Her films have been selected at over 100 film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and Rotterdam. |
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| HOW THE WINNER WILL BE CHOSEN |
Tiffany will select the winning design(s) from among all submissions. She may select more than one poster to be included in the film’s marketing campaign. |
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| WHAT YOU GET |
The winning poster design will be used in the marketing campaign for CONNECTED and will be considered for a Key Art Award, a prestigious honor offered by The Hollywood Reporter for the year’s best movie marketing materials. The top winner will also be offered an internship with Tiffany if s/he is local to the San Francisco Bay Area, or 3 hours of mentorship with Tiffany if not. |
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| WHAT TO DO NEXT |
Click “Participate”, download the "Poster Logo + Photos to Use (ZIP)" and submit your best movie poster design to represent CONNECTED. There are very specific guidelines for creating movie posters – PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THE DETAILS BELOW. Submissions that do not conform to the guidelines will not be considered. Please submit your artwork in .jpg format up to 5 MB. Good luck! |
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| DETAILS |
The poster must be in portrait format.
By convention, the point size of the billing block is 25 or 35 percent of the average height of each letter in the title logo. Inclusion in the credits and the billing block is generally a matter of detailed contracts between the artists and the producer.
For further information about movie poster design, check out the following sites:
http://www.infictus.com/how-to-create-a-movie-poster-billing-block-in-photoshop/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billing_block#Billing_block
http://deep-structure.blogspot.com/2007/08/poster-credit-font.html
http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/11551 |
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| ABOUT THE FILM |
Combining powerful visuals, humor, animation, irony, and serious messages, Connected explores the visible and invisible connections between the major issues of our time — the environment, population growth, technology, human rights, and the global economy – demonstrating how they are all interdependent.
Following the filmmaker’s exploration of her own place in the world during a transformative set of circumstances in her life, Connected exposes the importance of personal connectedness in relation to understanding global conditions, ultimately showing how all of humanity is invested in today’s crucial issues. More than a film about social issues, it is a work that speaks directly to empathy, social engagement, and what it means to be human in the 21st century. It reveals how the interdependence of people and forces lies at the core of our existence, and imagines what the world would look like if we lived in a way that acknowledged this reality. The film suggests that for centuries we have been declaring independence and perhaps it’s time to declare our interdependence. www.connectedthefilm.com |
