My BA is in Film Studies and movies are a huge part of what fuels my creativity. I'm a long-time member and friend of Scarecrow Video in the U-District, I even had a free-rental account until I ruined it by habitually returning movies late. About a year ago, Scarecrow became a non-profit 501c3 to avoid going the way of most video rental stores in the age of Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Netflix. I'm not able to offer much in the way of volunteer hours working the floor at Scarecrow, so I offered my services as an entry-level Graphic Designer.
My first mission was to create a horizontal half-page advertisement to be featured in the SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival) magazine. With very little guidance and no constraints save for the dimensions, I created pitches for 6 concepts with rough sketches that I presented to four members of leadership at Scarecrow. They were pleased with all the concepts and could see them working for multiple avenues but were particularly drawn to two for the SIFF magazine.
ORIGINAL SKETCHES (they went with idea #5)
INITIAL ROUNDS:
FINAL ADVERT:
