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Seventy Scenes of Halloween Promotion
Production Method
Digital
Design
Michael Faber
Direction - Ed Hunt, Tim Scales
Printing
Laser Image Printing and Marketing
These spooky posters can be cut down into even spookier promotional cards with illustrations inspired by Edward Gorey’s rare and expensive Fantod Deck of tarot cards. Each card represent a character from Jeffrey M. Jones’ play “Seventy Scenes of Halloween.”
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
Cards approx 2.5 × 5 in
Page Count
–
Paper Stock
–
Number of Colors
1 (digital)
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
Hand-traced Mrs. Eaves
Mrs. Eaves
Project Description
Seventy Scenes of Halloween is a curious production put on by Manbites Dog Theater. It's not your run of the mill play. It's filled with strange characters, weird events, and a touch of the macabre. Even the structure of the play is odd—the order that the 70 scenes are performed is at the discretion of the directors. Although Manbites Dog's very first production, 25 years ago, was Seventy Scenes of Halloween, theater-goers viewing the play this month will get an entirely different order than the original, and perhaps different from any other order ever performed.To promote this curious little production, we decided to create a tarot deck, highly inspired by Edward Gorey's Fantod Deck. We used some of the core (and some not so core) characters and elements of the play to build a small deck of 8 cards, all illustrated in a similar style to Gorey's deck. In the run-up to the opening of the play, we scattered the various cards around Durham to build a curiosity around these strange characters, with the cards leading to a microsite featuring some (made-up) history of this lost deck, and a teaser trailer for the play.
Production Lesson(s)
Production-wise, to save a bit of money and streamline the production process, we built the cards into a two-sided poster that could either be displayed as a whole, or cut down into a deck of the cards.
Post Author
Duncan Robertson
Former intern at UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
April 8, 2013
Filed Under
Digital
Posters
Promotional Cards
Tagged with
halloween
teaser
theater
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