ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Every week, I feel like I can’t get more impressed by a piece of art, and yet every week, I’m always blown away. What specifically stood out to you the first time you saw this?
JEFF BELL: I’m partial to clean graphics, and I love Skye and Ward together…I like putting her in a position of power. I mean, it’s a girl powered poster, you know? Who doesn’t love that?
I’m so glad it’s focusing on the Skye/Ward relationship, because that’s something that we’ve seen building up for so much of the season.
I love that the silhouette of Skye and Ward is kind of really one person, because they’re both wearing black. I love her Hydra hair, and then I love even that he’s in her shadow. And so from this, you don’t know whether she’s wounded him, whether she’s protecting him, whether he’s dying, or whether she broke his heart. I love that it’s all ambiguous in that way, and with Deathlok looming over but not looking directly at them. I love the graphicness of the red, and also the little flares — the little fireflies, the little specs of rain hitting the lens, whatever she [Stephanie] justified that as really gives the poster a depth and texture that makes it even richer. And then looming behind Deathlok is our poor, poor S.H.I.E.L.D.
After seeing this past week’s episode, I think this art is even more compelling. We know they’re Skye and Ward are off on a mission together, and we know that she knows his secret, but we don’t know exactly how their feelings for each other will affect them.
Right, exactly. Is she playing him? Does she also have feelings? Her feelings twisted, but can her feelings save him? Can his feelings pull her to the dark side? Is he really on the dark side? These are all really great questions that come out of this, and I think the poster does a nice job of embodying that.
JEFF BELL: I’m partial to clean graphics, and I love Skye and Ward together…I like putting her in a position of power. I mean, it’s a girl powered poster, you know? Who doesn’t love that?
I’m so glad it’s focusing on the Skye/Ward relationship, because that’s something that we’ve seen building up for so much of the season.
I love that the silhouette of Skye and Ward is kind of really one person, because they’re both wearing black. I love her Hydra hair, and then I love even that he’s in her shadow. And so from this, you don’t know whether she’s wounded him, whether she’s protecting him, whether he’s dying, or whether she broke his heart. I love that it’s all ambiguous in that way, and with Deathlok looming over but not looking directly at them. I love the graphicness of the red, and also the little flares — the little fireflies, the little specs of rain hitting the lens, whatever she [Stephanie] justified that as really gives the poster a depth and texture that makes it even richer. And then looming behind Deathlok is our poor, poor S.H.I.E.L.D.
After seeing this past week’s episode, I think this art is even more compelling. We know they’re Skye and Ward are off on a mission together, and we know that she knows his secret, but we don’t know exactly how their feelings for each other will affect them.
Right, exactly. Is she playing him? Does she also have feelings? Her feelings twisted, but can her feelings save him? Can his feelings pull her to the dark side? Is he really on the dark side? These are all really great questions that come out of this, and I think the poster does a nice job of embodying that.
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