Kill Bill Vol.01, Selection of Ideas

Kill Bill has two movies, Vol. 01 & 02.

Its famous for its leading role being a women and famous for sticking to the colour pallet of yellow and black. So I thought it would be a sensible idea to stick to tat colour pallet.

My very first idea, was to try a different coloured background, try something different for this poster, so I tried the yellow, and instantly after seeing it, I knew it wouldn't work, do I went straight back to black.

Early stages of these posters where not to positive, ideas coming from my head to paper to Illustrator where not great. Weak ideas that where not working with the others I had designed in the set.

I continued to mess about with the yellow back ground to see if it could work, but I just don't feel it does,

So I decided all posters will work on a black template, text, images will all be kept in the same position.

After watching Kill Bill Vol. 01, the Motorcycle helmet stuck into my head, although its not the biggest part of the movie, I thought it could be a good idea to have a mess about with the helmet idea, coming up with a few ideas, but none that where standing out to me,

But I liked the images I had produced, so decided to see how it would work surrounded by the text.

I feel the image fits in with the text surrounding it, but there is still alot of room for improvement, maybe even improvement of the text, so the poster works on a whole?

As a large portion of the movie is set in Japan, I got the text translated to Japanese, to see how that could work,

I really like them for personal design, but don't think I will use them as part of the set, due to the idea not fitting in with the rest of the posters.

I managed to get the image of the helmet change, making it a bit more appealing and stand out a bit more than it originally was. Replacing the wind guard of the image from a wind guard to a siluet of a gun, which blends in with the black background.

This is making the image work alot better, stronger looking design, more appealing to the eye and personal think it is all round stronger image.

Now having a edit to the image, was seeing if it worked with the text surrounding it, and personally I feel it does.

Although I knew I wasn't going with the yellow background idea, I thought it would be useful to try the designs out with the chosen design. But still don't feel it works for the poster, and for the posters as a set.

Sticking to the idea of the helmet but putting it across in a different way, facing the camera instead of starring away.

Messed about with a few different ideas, and different way of displaying the image, but none of them comparing to the earlier designs, just not as strong in my opinion.