Freedom Festival Research 5

Newport Folk Festival

These are some festival poster prints which I thought looked pretty cool as they have a screen printed look to them but also have a digitally created look. The imagery is very drawn looking but well drawn and well thought of. I think the colour schemes also compliment the drawn look of the poster, as a limited palette of colours has kept the image simple but affective.

Freedom Festival Research 4

Seattle Int. Film Festival Posters

THE DONUT PROJECT

The nation’s largest and most highly-attended film festival needed to attract both new and returning audience members for its 35th annual showing. To stimulate curiosity and encourage people to find the unexpected at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), Seattle studio WONGDOODY created silhouettes of odd creatures and bizarre shapes and set them against jewel-toned backgrounds. Leaving a lot to the imagination, the images encouraged viewers to consider the unpredictable, much like they might find in the films screened at SIFF. A TV spot (by Digital Kitchen) and in-theatre trailer used animated sequences that feature the same surreal, silhouette-style imagery.

These posters caught my attention because the clever use of a silhouette approach to get the message across and have a relevance to the festival. In the same way, as the brief also states, I'd like to create a design that captures Freedom Festival but also references a different concept (which would be freedom),

Freedom Festival Research 3

Festival Posters

I've picked out these festival posters, when searching and looking through various different kinds, because these caught my attention most for their different styles. When looking at all four posters, they look completely different therefore I realised that I'm not someone who likes just a certain style of poster designs. I like those with vibrant colours and shapes, those with neautral colours and a more hand made approach, and also those that are rather dark with little highlights of colour every now and then.

Freedom Festival Research 2

Freedom Festival's Fire Display

I'd seen the fire displays before during Freedom Fest and was amazed by how huge and daunting but beautiful they looked. The idea I had from viewing the pictures was to simply have the sphere fire frame recreated as an image and be surrounded by text that works well with the image.

Freedom Festival Research 1

Freedom Festival Background

FREEDOM FESTIVAL

Freedom Festival is the lasting legacy of the Wilberforce 2007 campaign which celebrated the pioneering work of Hull-born MP William Wilberforce, and the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. During 2007, Hull was at the centre of the world’s bicentennial celebrations, remembering the life and work of Hull’s most famous son.

The city commemorated with 34 weeks of events and activities, highlighting issues of slavery and emancipation that are still current today. Following this successful year, it was agreed that Wilberforce’s legacy needed to be marked and celebrated annually, and Freedom Festival was born.

Freedom Festival grew out of commemorations in Hull in 2007 of the 200th anniversary of William Wilberforce’s Act of Parliament, which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire.

William Wilberforce was born on High Street in Hull on 24th August 1759. He began his political career in 1780, becoming the Independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire in 1784.  A few years into his career, he became involved in the movement of abolitionism, campaigning to end slavery in the UK and its colonies, and he soon became one of the leading English abolitionists. For 26 years, Wilberforce headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.