The Letter

For this short feature film, I started working on a script break-down prior to producing any graphics. It is set in pre-WWII Germany so most of the preliminary work consisted of researching the graphics of the era, the fonts used, the colour schemes, imagery and illustration style. I looked at a lot of political propaganda posters which were on the rise at the time, as well as at a lot of Bauhaus art which was in the process of being stifled and dying out. I ended up producing multiple posters for exterior shots, some newspapers and pamphlets, menacing in style and colour, to establish a sense of time and place which evoked the suppression the characters felt. Below are some of many posters I designed and illustrated, then produced in various degrees of distress plus various paper paraphernalia I designed and made for the film, including one ‘hero prop’, the titular “letter”.