Metropolis poster series

A series of posters based off the 1920’s film METROPOLIS and this modern Metropolis Rescore by The New Pollutants. Since the film is entirely in black and white, I decided to depict the vibe of the story using different color gradients to show how dark and serious the movie becomes over time. All the posters, that are 12 inches by 17 inches, are compiled in an accordion bound book.

After living a carefree, privileged life, Freder discovers that the beautiful city he lives in is being run by mistreated workers living underneath him in an underworld. With this, he befriends a local teacher, Maria, in order to help free the workers. I used bright orange’s, blue’s and green’s to depict Freder on his heroic quest. Unfortunately, his father, the mayor of the city, uses a scientist to create a robot that looks exactly like Maria in order to help hypnotize the workers. Once the robot is complete, she begins to take over the city. For this, I faded the bright colors into darker, more sinister colors, such as deep reds and dark purples. The slanted type used in each poster is to represent the workers in the underworld marching back and forth.