Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Saturday, January 17th, 2009 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mothwingI've done the poster for Crocky's theatre group. Even though it was a lot of fun, I don't think I'll be doing anything like this any time soon, the spaces between the various text blocks drove me round the twist and weren't right even to the very end, and I ended up dreaming of borders, sizes and different fonts. I had to re-do it all over in the end when I made a last minute change to the font - instead of GeoSansLight I wanted to go for a more correct font for the period, but had to change it back for added legibility.
The border comes straight out of the Ellesmere manuscript, so do the pilgrims - and getting this border into poster shape was not fun, I can tell you. The tiny pilgrims unfortunately do not represent the order in which the tales will be presented on stage because I have no idea which order that will be- I now lined them up for reasons of colour and saturation rather than stage presentation. There's the Miller, Pardoner, Merchant, Reeve and Friar. Oh, and Chaucer, obviously.
The tickets, which are usually printed on coloured paper for the individual days, will look somewhat like this:
Now I only hope that the people at the copy shop will be able to print this stuff on DinA3 and DinA5 correctly without mucking it up.
Keeping all fingers crossed!
The border comes straight out of the Ellesmere manuscript, so do the pilgrims - and getting this border into poster shape was not fun, I can tell you. The tiny pilgrims unfortunately do not represent the order in which the tales will be presented on stage because I have no idea which order that will be- I now lined them up for reasons of colour and saturation rather than stage presentation. There's the Miller, Pardoner, Merchant, Reeve and Friar. Oh, and Chaucer, obviously.
The tickets, which are usually printed on coloured paper for the individual days, will look somewhat like this:
Now I only hope that the people at the copy shop will be able to print this stuff on DinA3 and DinA5 correctly without mucking it up.
Keeping all fingers crossed!
