Poster Art work by Bob Peak
Bob Peak has many movie posters and designs for music and film pvc banners to his credit. One that I like is a poster for the movie “Star Trek” which still has a cult following today. The movie poster sets the pace for the movie and lets you know what to expect. It creates a surreal ambiance even with the older methods of graphics available at the time. The imagery creates the atmosphere of what is to come simply but successfully.
This 1979 poster has a tagline at the upper left hand corner stating to the viewers what is to come. It reads “The human adventure is just beginning.” Thus letting the viewers know that when they watch this movie they are in for some mind boggling stuff.
The Starship enterprise captain looks upwards, skywards to the stars accompanied by the faces of his female right hand and of course the famous pointy eyebrow and ears character Doctor Spock who looks on. All three faces are caught up in a rainbow coloured beam. Remember the famous command to “Beam me up, Scotty?”
Unlike the white (on our screens anyway) beam that was seen when the beam was ready to take the characters to all manner of alien worlds the poster version has an array of reds, orange, greens and blues with a central yellow colour. This could be reminiscent of the probability that the famous beam was actually an ultra violet beam with an array of colours not seen by the naked eye.
The stars out in space provide a back drop to all this space alien activity and create the atmosphere of the space sky together with an image of the famous starship enterprise traveling through the unknown perimeters of outer space on its voyage. Beams of light emanate from the space ship to illuminate its way. These same type of beams seem to illuminate the movies title that introduces the long awaited for by treky fans the world over “StarTrek the motion picture”