invitation design

Here is the final invitation design that I completed for the end of year screening. Several months ago here was an email sent out to every film and animation student to submit designs for the screening. I was the only person to submit anything. I should not have been surprised. At the screening meeting obviously my designs were not what they were looking for, so they extended the submission date for another further two weeks. Still no one submitted anything so I ended up in a 'design committee' with 5 other film students to design the invitation. I set up a meeting to get things going with the film student. We discussed several ideas and this is what we came up with. The whole design was to say creativity fun and feel fresh in a way. Film and animation is a very creative medium so I think it was very appropriate. While finalizing the the design I got feed back that there was not any emphasis on film aspect in the design and it was too graphic design and 'animation' orientated. So to fix that I put a blue film strip in the background. I spent over 20 working hours and more over a period of a few weeks. That was just in designing it using Illustrator and photoshop.