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301 Troop: Arawn Rising Film poster shoot

Finally getting round to posting about one of my latest poster campaigns for Only The New Breed Productions upcoming feature “301 Troop: Arawn rising”, the story of 2 best friends struggling to make it into a specialist marine corp; but find themselves fighting for lives within something much more sinister. It’s a dark thriller/horror with fantastic characters, costumes and special effects, so this was a lot of fun to take from concept to the final designs.

I was commissioned to create a full campaign of One Sheet, 2 Quad & 6 Character One sheets below, which you can check out below!

Character posters:

Captain Dunn

Campbell

Dragor

Mason

Michaels

Walker

The shoot was a lot of fun and easy to get creative with the shots with such fantastic characters. Its always amazing to see actors slowly become their characters through fantastic make up, costumes & props – And despite having pre-mediatated concepts on board (the usual Curtis doodles & shot lists in hand), these are the kind of shoots where you want everyone to stay on set endlessly because there’s always a million different shots you could create.

The film is heavily inspired by classic action films, and it was important to the director (Lee Bennett) that the poster reflected this with a strong standing montage with dramatic expressions & poses in true action star fashion!

With the design, it was integral to emphasize the horror element of the story as well as the armed forces storyline – to show that there was going to be a lot of action, violence as well as something much darker and supernatural. This was brought in with eerie cyan/green tones, dramatically lit forest imagery from a dusk shoot, Blood red title sections to match the blood on the characters & gritty overlays on the classical typeface for the main title.

I shot the cast in a studio in Shoredtich on a day shoot with the very talented Lee Bennett (Writer, Director & actor as ‘Mason’), Silvio Simac (as ‘Dragor’), Jon Campling (as ‘Captain Dunn’), Alan Calton (as ‘Campbell’) & Spencer Austin (as ‘Walker’). With the final cast member Cat LaCohie (as ‘Michaels’) photographed over in the US, thanks to photographer Jack Wiant for getting Cat in the campaign for us!

You can see some of the behind the scenes from the shoot below, featuring possibly the best behind the scenes shot ever taken of a photographer taking a photo of a photographer taking a photo of a photographer taking photos. Thank you to the fantastic Del Folwer for these!

Behind the scenes: