Haiku Poster 2 - Process

“Lighting One Candle” by Yosa Buson

The light of a candle

Is transferred to another candle

Spring twilight

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It is my mood board for the movie poster.

And I made a brainstorming for my chosen haiku. Haiku's title is "Light One Candle," which sounds like a movement. "Fire," "transient," and "continue" are the three words that I associate with them, and here I thought of them in a more detailed extension.

Through the extension of vocabulary, I got some ideas about the movie title. I decided to actually burn a candle and see how long it would last.

I timed it with a timer, and in the end, it burned for about 97 minutes. So I decided to call my movie "ninety-seven minutes”, that's how long a candle can burn.

Then, I made some plans on the structure of the poster, and finally, I decided on the location of the three main elements — title, body, text. I selected the candle body's position and angle from one structure, put Haiku from the second structure, and the position of title from another structure.

Those are my two poster plan, and I chose the left one as the final.

I drew the selected final plan in more detail.

Then I put the draft into Adobe Illustrator and trace the outline with the pen tool.

Lastly, I put the texts into the poster to find the most suitable place for them.

To develop my poster-making process, I will determine the final plan's texts' optimal location next time. When I put the text into the poster according to the plan, I found that the vertical text was challenging to read, and it destroyed the structure of Haiku, so I had to readjust it, but by this time, I had completed my main element. As a result, my text layout has received some limitations. Next time, I will confirm whether the text typesetting and pictures match and then make the poster.