Category: Film Portfolio
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The Prince Of Darkness Collector’s Edition
Prince Of Darkness Collector’s Edition for StudioCanal. The 4 Disc UHD and Blu-ray Collector’s Edition features poster artwork, art cards, a 48 page booklet and soundtrack. John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness uses the fantastic artwork of Matt Ferguson across the front cover and takes elements across the slipcase, digital and the 48-page booklet. Deep in the basement…
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Escape From New York Collector’s Edition UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Escape From New York Collector’s Edition UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging fro StudioCanal. The 4 Disc Collector’s Edition features poster artwork, art cards, a 48 page booklet and soundtrack. The artwork for this John Carpenter classic features the marvellous artwork of Matt Ferguson and was adapted to feature on the front of the sleeves as well as…
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The Prince Of Darkness UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Prince Of Darkness UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging for StudioCanal. John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness uses the fantastic artwork of Matt Ferguson across the front cover and takes elements to use on the back. The regular issues gave us the headache of fitting the images into the different formats and matching the style on the reverse. Deep…
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The Deer Hunter Collector’s Edition UHD and BD Packaging
StudioCanal’s The Deer Hunter Collector’s Edition UHD and BD Packaging. The artwork adapted the fantastic illustration from Johnny Dombrowski (see his other work for the Agatha Christie titles). The stripped back nature of the artwork really captures the rawness of the film and the restricted use of red brings out the key elements. There are number…
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The Dam Busters Collector’s Edition BD and DVD Packaging
The Dam Busters Collector’s Edition BD and DVD Packaging Vintage Classic for StudioCanal. To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the original World War II raid, ‘Operation Chastise’ The Dam Busters was released as a Collector’s Edition 5 disc box, including posters, art cards and booklet, as well as digitally restored individual Blu-ray and DVD sleeves. Using…
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The Breadwinner Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Press Advert and Digital Assets
The Breadwinner Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Press Advert and Digital Assets for StudioCanal. Having previously worked on The Secret of Kells and loved Song of The Sea, I was delighted to be able to work on The Breadwinner, another animation from Cartoon Saloon. It was a joy to get the images through and look in…
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The Avengers – Tunnel Of Fear (TV Series) DVD Packaging
The Avengers – Tunnel Of Fear (TV Series) DVD Packaging, including 64 page booklet for StudioCanal. The initial designs for this release featured a commissioned illustration, however, the initial image was dropped in favour of a photograph composition. The style of previous The Avengers packaging was followed, using the circular them as a holding device…
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The Mercy Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Digital Assets and Press Adverts
The Mercy Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Digital Assets and Press Adverts for StudioCanal. The artwork featured a straight adaptation from theatrical posters. Adjustments were made to the position of the Colin and Rachel in order to accommodate the title, cast and quotes. Academy Award winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman: The Secret Service) portrays the…
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The Lost City Of Z Blu-ray and DVD packaging, and Digital
Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, and Digital assets for the StudioCanal release of The Lost City of Z. An adaptation of the theatrical artwork, the packaging features an additional centre strip and bottom image to promote the film’s action element. The original bottom section is carried over to the disc on-bodies and some digital files, depending…
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The Big Sick Blu-ray and DVD packaging, and Digital Assets
The Big Sick Blu-ray and DVD packaging, and digital assets for StudioCanal. The packaging for this release was based on the theatrical artwork, but with slight tweaks to make the title treatment brighter. The DVD sleeve works brilliantly in a yellow Amaray case, matching the brighter title treatment. The design was adapted for the digital…
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Ice Cold In Alex Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Ice Cold In Alex Blu-ray and DVD packaging for the StudioCanal Vintage Classics 60th Anniversary release. The Vintage Classic releases for StudioCanal have a distinctive style (fro other examples see them here), using areas of flatter colour that resemble vintage posters. The packaging fro Ice Cold in Alex followed this style with a colour palette that conveys…
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Gold Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Digital and Promotion
Gold Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Digital Download, Print press advertisements and Social Media Promotion for StudioCanal. The packaging was an adaptation from theatrical artwork with the addition of special finishes on the O-ring packaging for the Blu-ray and DVD. These were printed on silverboard with a white base in certain areas, the yellow printing directly…
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French Waves DVD Packaging
French Waves DVD Packaging for StudioCanal. This film was supplied with limited resources, but did have a saving grace of a great press kit. Taking inspiration from that and colouring the (lo-res!) screen grabs to match the central title treatment, the sleeve reflects the vibrant and eclectic electronic music discussed in the film. If French…
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Goodbye Berlin DVD Packaging
Adaptation of German artwork for the DVD Packaging of Goodbye Berlin, a StudioCanal release. Oh gorgeous Sante Fe font how we love you on this poster! Something that I probably wouldn’t have thought to choose, but works so nicely on this sleeve. The typeface is backed up by bright and bold imagery. Based on the bestselling novel…
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Fog In August DVD Packaging
Fog In August DVD Packaging for StudioCanal. An adaptation of German artwork, a clean and simple design lets the subject matter speak for itself. A rare use of a serif typeface. Based on the true story of 13-year-old Ernst Lossa (Ivo Pietzcker). Southern Germany, early 1940s. Ernst, a motherless child, is a bright but maladjusted…
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Love Cecil DVD Packaging and Quad Poster
Love, Cecil DVD Packaging and Quad Poster for StudioCanal. The DVD cover and Poster needed a little tweaking to get the format and type to work on the supplied image. Despite the subject matter, there wasn’t a huge amount of images to use, and HD still grabs were used for the back. The Quad Poster…
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Dunkirk DVD Packaging
DVD packaging for the 1958 version of Dunkirk from StudioCanal. Not to be confused with the recent release from Christopher Nolan, this 1958 release was directed by Leslie Norman (The Long, The Short And The Tall), starring John Mills (Ice Cold In Alex, Goodbye Mr Chips, Great Expectations), Richard Attenborough (Brighton Rock, The Great Escape) and…
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Bunuel Boxset and Belle De Jour Packaging
Bunuel: The Essential Collection boxset and Belle De Jour Blu-ray and DVD packaging from StudioCanal. Belle De Jour is a World Cinema release and uses the international artwork on the Blu-ray and DVD packaging. Bunuel: The Essential Collection is part of The Auteur Collection from StudioCanal (along with Godard and Melvile). The packaging combines elements from international artwork…
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A Journey Through French Cinema DVD Packaging
An adaptation of the poster artwork for the StudioCanal release of A Journey Through French Cinema DVD packaging.
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The Agatha Christie Collection Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Agatha Christie Collection from StudioCanal is a set of films, released individually, as Vintage Classics on Blu-ray and DVD. The films making up the collection are Death On The Nile, Murder On The Orient Express, Evil Under The Sun and The Mirror Crack’d. The release of these four films featured the fantastic artwork of Johnny Dombrowski. These…
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Melody Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Packaging for the Vintage Classic Blu-ray and DVD StudioCanal release of Melody. Having worked on a previous release of Melody (see below for an early 2D packshot) that didn’t have too many assets available, I thought that the Remaster wasn’t going to be the easiest of tasks. However, despite early versions limited to the same images,…
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Below The Surface (Season One) DVD Packaging
DVD packaging for the Danish drama Below The Surface from StudioCanal. The cover image uses the title to split the main tube train image with a composite image of the attackers. The original poster only featured the train image with the title treatment, but to better represent the contents of the series, the second image…
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I Remember You DVD Packaging
The DVD packaging for I Remember You from StudioCanal uses the teaser artwork – not the theatrical poster artwork – to convey the films darker and sinister side. With a smorgasbord of resources to chose from, the back cover features some disturbing images from the collection alongside images of the film’s main protagonist. From writer/director…
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Trust Me DVD Packaging
Trust Me DVD Packaging for StudioCanal. An adaptation from limited resources, the DVD packaging utilises a muted colour palette and strong central images of the main cast member, Jodie Whittaker. Filmed before becoming known as the first female Doctor Who, Jodie gives a great performance in this BBC drama, finding herself living a lie as a…
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The Goose Steps Out Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Goose Steps Out is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic and part of the Ealing Studios Digitally Restored collection. Comedy legend Will Hay stars as William Potts, a hapless, clumsy schoolteacher, who just happens to be an identical body double for a notorious German Nazi general. When the army is made aware of this uncanny resemblance to the German,…
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Manchester By The Sea Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Monday sees the release of the Oscar®-winning (Bafta® and Golden Globe® as well) Manchester by the Sea. Casey Affleck* (Gone Baby Gone) stars as Lee, a man whose spare existence is suddenly ruptured when the death of his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler, Carol, The Wolf of Wall Street) forces him to return to the hometown he abandoned years before.…
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Mandy Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Mandy is a Digitally Restored Ealing Studios film, part of the StudioCanal Vintage Classic collection. Nominated for 6 BAFTAs in 1952, Ealing classic Mandy is the heart-rending adaptation of Hilda Lewis’s novel The Day is Ours, from acclaimed director Alexander Mackendrick (Whisky Galore!, The Man in the White Suit). Born deaf, Mandy (Mandy Miller) is mute for most…
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The Proud Valley Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The print files for The Proud Valley left Rogue Four Towers recently. A Studio Canal Vintage Classic title from 1940, it features the wonderful singing voice of Paul Robeson and tells the story of a small Welsh mining community dealing with the closure of the local pit, a story that will resonate with many. The look of this title works…
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The Man Between Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
A digitally restored Vintage Classic from Studio Canal, The Man Between is a later collaboration between James Mason and Carol Reed, often considered a companion piece to The Third Man thanks to its atmospheric portrayal of a city struggling to survive in a grim post-war reality of poverty and mistrust. The action is here transposed to a divided Berlin,…
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Room Print and Online Advertising
For the larger home entertainment releases there can be advertising across print and digital media. Ranging from printed posters to online ads, the artwork is adapted across a broad range of media each with specific requirements. These Room adverts for StudioCanal, show a small range of the what is supplied to accompany a release. The adverts need…
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Swallows and Amazons Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
This week saw the release of Swallows and Amazons on Blu-ray and DVD. An enchanting new take on the beloved novel by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons tells the story of the Walker children, whose summer holiday in the Lake District sees them sailing out on their own to a local island, only to find themselves in a…
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The Blue Lamp Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Blue Lamp is an Ealing Studios Vintage Classic title from StudioCanal. An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden’s The Blue Lamp was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B Clark, the writer who arguably did most to define Ealing Studio’s post-war identity. The film marked the first appearance of the character, PC George Dixon – later to be immortalised in…
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Tickled DVD Packaging
Q: A film about Tickling?A: A film about Tickling. Tickled. After stumbling upon a bizarre “competitive endurance tickling” video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and Tickled, reporter David Farrier reaches out to request a story from the company. But the reply he receives is shocking—the sender mocks Farrier’s sexual orientation and…
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The Sound Barrier Blu-ray and DVD packaging
The Sound Barrier is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic title. Directed by David Lean and written by Terence Rattigan. Starring Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliot, Ann Todd and Nigel Patrick, the film is about the men who challenged the speed of sound. I like the simplicity of the sleeve, but the subtle elements the background ‘blueprints’ bring to the design. The…
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Shocker Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
His name was Horace Pinker, a psychotic TV repairman sentenced to death for a series of sick and twisted murders. But it’s after his execution by the electric chair that the real trouble starts. Having made a deal with the devil before his death, Horace Pinker has now transformed into an evil energy source capable of travelling through electrical currents…
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School For Scoundrels Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Enrol at the wacky College of Lifemanship where a senior host of great British comedians teach a completely uproarious course on how to come out tops in any social situation. Study with Alastair Sim and learn his valuable hints on the art of comic One-upmanship. Follow his expert advice to victimised Ian Carmichael about romance and you’ll be a top class pupil…
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Red Sun Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Billed as the first East meets West Western, and directed by Terence Young, Red Sun is based on a true story from the American Wild West of 1870, when paths cross for an outlaw (Charles Bronson), a gunfighter (Alain Delon), a prostitute (Ursula Andress) and a Samurai warrior (Toshirô Mifune). Red Sun uses an old Spanish…
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Room Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Room is based on the best-selling novel by Emma Donoghue and featuring an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning performance from Brie Larson. One of the most acclaimed films of 2016 and Directed by Academy Award nominee Lenny Abrahamson, Room is an intensely powerful and wonderfully life-affirming journey about the power of love, limitless…
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Pool Of London Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
I enjoy working on the Vintage Classic titles, some can be a real challenge with limited assets, while others have some really lovely old archival posters that cry out to be used. With Pool Of London I loved the original title treatment, but I was little sceptical about using the poster image at first, however, I’ve grown to…
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Payroll Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
A Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, Payroll is a 1961 British crime thriller starring Michael Craig and Billie Whitelaw. Payroll has got a couple of lovely, if poor quality, shots with beautiful ‘film noir’ lighting. This is a film that I had previously worked on, and the assets were exactly the same, so it was just a case…