You’d think that being coped up at home due to social distancing would increase my productivity. You thought wrong.
Anyways, today I present to you my posters for a fictional film REBOOT of the 1960 classic.
This time around, I did something a little different from normal. Instead of creating four different posters, I made a single base poster and created four different color variants;
1. A plain black and white version
2. A colored version incorporating the color red (the color of blood)
3. A washed out version of the previous poster, where black is replaced with white, and
4. A unique purple and yellow version. (when I first pulled up the title art for psycho, it was using this certain purple and yellow color scheme, so I decided to make one version using that particular scheme and just call it RETRO.
All four versions, regardless of color, feature a simplistic design in which the word PSYCHO acts as a window looking over a scene of the infamous psycho house with Norman Bates. They also feature Universal as the producing studio, and have September 2025 as a release date, with the intention of having the film’s “release” coincide with the 65th anniversary of the original. Finally, the posters use one of the more iconic quotes of the film as a tagline.
My vision for a Psycho Reboot is very specific. For starters, I don’t want the reboot to be anything like 1998′s shot for shot colored remake. I would want the film to expand more on the original story. It would be the same classic storyline of Norman Bates, but with a few minor tweaks;
1. It HAS to stay in Black and White format. I’m thinking something similar to how Sin City was all black and white, with only certain details being colored in
2. Keep the same soundtrack, or create a more modern version of the same music. It might actually be hard to mess with something so iconic.
3. Expand on the mystery by having the character of Mother portrayed by an actual person. Just seeing a female actor do all the stuff that the character of Mother does can act as a red herring, making the audience believe that she is actually a real person. That way, when the film’s plot twist is thrown in, it would be even more of a surprise. (to people new to the story, that is).
4. Use the addition of a female actor portraying mother to further expand upon the relationships between the two personalities. Think about it this way: Norman Bates looks in a mirror, and instead of seeing his own reflection, he sees the female actor playing mother staring back at him.
5. Have Norman actually find the stolen money. Give him a small moral dilemma of what to do with it. On one hand, he could easily just use the money to build a new motel closer to the newer interstate, while on the other hand, he knows that the money isn’t his, and that someone might be looking for it. I just think that it could be a nice little subplot.
Still got some more ideas for posters in the back of my mind. Gonna try to keep at it. Enjoy the posters and I’ll see you in the next post!
