Thesis idea

Hello everyone. Hope you enjoyed your weekend. Here's what my thesis is all about...

My thesis idea is to transform three Roald Dahl books into movie posters. I am going to be doing posters for James and the Giant peach, Fantastic Mr Fox, and George’s Marvelous Medicine. My original idea was to redesign three Tim Burton movie posters but since his style is so prevalent in his posters, I am instead going to apply his gothic and dark style to my posters. Roald Dahl’s books already have dark and twisted content so incorporating Tim Burton’s artistic style seems logical. I originally intended to illustrate all the characters for the posters in black ink and I have yet to experiment much with this. As I was doing my sketches I found that I was leaning towards illustrating the titles by incorporating images from the story’s content, for example seagulls, branches, and smoke spell out the titles. This has caused me to lean towards playing with typography rather than focusing on the pen drawings. I may still use that idea if it seems to fit well with the overall design. Overall I want my posters to appear gothic stylistically and to reflect both the dark content of the books and Tim Burton’s influence on my work.