The handmade brief required a more hands on approach to creating a movie poster. My chosen movie was Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. A film released in 1987, its storyline follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their training and the experiences of two of the platoons marines during the Vietnam War.
My feeling was that these soldiers were trained as machines and forced to fight in a war that they didn't need to be involved in. My idea was to create a model sprue of a soldier and his kit to represent this image of a Vietnam soldier, as if they were just being made on a production line without any emotion.
I did this by laser-cutting acrylic from an image i created. Which i then photographed. That image was then used as the background for the movie poster and all the relating information connected to it. I used a font called Stratum, a modern futuristic looking typeface to bring the movie up-to-date, weight - black, to give it the movie title effect.