graphic design and set photography for „dünne wände“ (thin walls), a short film about how city residents affect, annoy, anger each other — through their walls.

written and directed by niklas raab. read more about the film on hawarafilm.com

read the project folder and admire the design here

poster design

the poster was designed to look like a collage — a reference to the home improvement intro. i used different textures of paper to suggest what room the person depicted was living in / what room they were in / what their personality might be. most of the paper textures are from texturelabs. for the illustrations, i used the ugly markers by alex kiesling. they’re amazing for getting realistic markers digitally. i also used them in some illustrations i did for lomography.

poster photos

we did the photo shooting for the poster in my apartment. some of the resulting photos are quite funny, because i was planning to cut them out anyway. at this point, the script wasn’t finalized yet, so i tried to come up with as many different activities that i could. ones they could do where they would annoy/distract a neighbor, and ones where they would be on the receiving end.

the shooting was really fun, and made me think i could maybe give directing a shot too :1)
i gave broad directions for the talent based on the action and emotion i wanted. as opposed to the final mood of the film though, i wanted the poster not to look too self-serious.

set photos

in: graphic design, home, photography

themes: portrait, short film, vienna

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