This project was based around the short story. ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ by Edgar Allan Poe. These prints are based on three quotes from the story:

“Until, at length a dim ray, like the thread of a spider, shot out the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye.”

“All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.”

‘Villains!’ I shrieked, ‘dissemble no more! I admit the deed! – tear up the planks! – here, here! – It is the beating of his hideous heart!'” 

I made them by gathering images related to each quote and overprinting them through the photocopier while altering the colours and shapes through the machine’s settings. The layers of shapes and colours combined with overlapping details creates complex and dynamic images that convey the narrative and themes of each quote.

Film poster for a showing of ‘The Great Silence‘ (1968) directed by Sergio Corbucci.
I wanted to convey the bleak, desolate setting and the sweeping musical score through a minimal composition and colour palette. I used dry-point etching to convey a scene from the film, and used it in a screen-print along with a dual colour font for the film title.
I wanted the poster to have a ‘worn’ look and dotted noise from the original etching around the page. Due to the textured watercolour paper I chose to mimic the texture of snow..The wood type used to make the title was old and some letters had little dents and inconsistencies that made it into the print.