Nightcrawler Poster & DVD Cover

Poster and DVD packaging designed for a Criterion Collection release of the film Nightcrawler. I created a hybrid of human and inhuman parts, incorporating the protagonist’s mental illness with the film’s critique of television journalism. The palette is drawn from the saturated colors of illuminated signs and storefronts of LA’s streets.

The poster and DVD cover were designed for a hypothetical Criterion Collection release, allowing me to eschew some of the tropes and technical minutiae found on a theatrical release poster and DVD's.

I started project with sketches of various ideas. I liked the idea of combining the protagonist's head with the camera he uses as both a visual reference to the film plot and as a metaphor for his inhuman disconnection and the camera a means to further his disconnection.

I didn't want to play into cliches of large actor portraits for my cover, so I went with the skull instead of Jake Gyllenhaal's face and kept the idea of a technical schematic of his camera (a Canon XF305), but in a non-exploded view. The main illiustration was drawn by hand in Illustrator then imported into Photoshop for finishing.

I also redesigned the title sequence for Nightcrawler, you can see it here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/34253749/Motion-Graphics-Nightcrawler-Title-Sequence

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