This poster for Arrival was one of the earliest I got completed, as I stopped trying to tell the entire story of the film in image, and focused instead on the iconography and visual themes of the film. Arrival is about a language expert trying to comprehend an alien force that comes to Earth with unclear intentions. It's a departure from classic films like this, as the solution isn't just firing the biggest gun at the problem. Because of this, I didn't want to make a cliché alien action movie poster, and tried to be more subtle. The circular shape is a symbol used in the film as a part of the alien language, which I used as the overarching visual anchor to show the nature of the film as focused on the relationship between two different species and how they interact, rather than on them horribly killing each other.
The cylindrical shape in the centre of the image is based on the alien ships that show up around the world in the film. As a whole single image, I used these two sections to resemble a reptilian/alien eye, as many movie posters use an eye to draw the audiences attention, as eyes convey a humanity and an openness that people can engage with, sometimes without even realising.
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