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- Title:Howlin' For You
- Client:Chris Marrs Piliero (dir,)
- Design:Film Poster
- Date:10.10.11
- Region:USA
‘Howlin for you’ was a commission for Black Keys music video by Chris Marrs Piliero as part of the ‘I want my music video art show’ a celebration of the art of music videos, at the Meltdown gallery in LA.
Im a big Black Keys fan so loved the thought of working on this. the video itself plays out like a Grindhouse exploitation meets western film trailer, so it was a perfect fit for a classic movie poster style, also Chris wanted a lot of people on this one and getting everyone in proved to be a bit of a challenge. Plus the faces had to be quite prominent in scale so it was a
Im a big Black Keys fan so loved the thought of working on this. the video itself plays out like a Grindhouse exploitation meets western film trailer, so it was a perfect fit for a classic movie poster style, also Chris wanted a lot of people on this one and getting everyone in proved to be a bit of a challenge. Plus the faces had to be quite prominent in scale so it was a
case of working out positions and poses which would
balance all the characters in the composition and reflect
there personalities.
The trailer has quite a bleached out Mexican western feel so this was inspiration to use a warm yellow colour pallet. the title treatment with the blocked out black at the bottom was a homage to the Italian western posters which would always have this style for the titles (probably to easily allow for localisation of the name in various countries).
balance all the characters in the composition and reflect
there personalities.
The trailer has quite a bleached out Mexican western feel so this was inspiration to use a warm yellow colour pallet. the title treatment with the blocked out black at the bottom was a homage to the Italian western posters which would always have this style for the titles (probably to easily allow for localisation of the name in various countries).