Seen any interesting posters lately? Here is the place to post them. At least one of the core writers around here does one-sheet graphic design professionally, and there are many of us who just like to look at an interesting or well designed movie poster.
PosterWire has a post showing what happens when too many films are marketed with simple letter graphics. Most likely a Photoshop job, but funny nonetheless.
The poster for the 3:10 to Yuma remake (I can’t think of a remake I’ve looked more forward to than this film)
Sure it’s over-designed considering that the trailers of the film do not suggest Leone by way of a sequel to Raimi’s The Quick and The Dead, but damn it, I still like the poster as a stand-alone work.
Side note: I watched the trailer again the moment I finished the book (on continuous reading session that reads like a movie script anyway…McCarthys Prose is even more sparse and no-nonsense than Elmore Leonard!)...It looks like everything is lifted exactly out of the book. I’ll be curious to see how the Coens handle the final couple chapters of the novel which are not in the least cinematic…they’ll probably cut them out right…but I digress, the poster stinks.
I think I like the “No Country For Old Men” poster. I see a basic visual similarity to Saving Private Ryan (the poster for which I agree is cheesy and uninspired), but I think tonally they are complete opposites - the NCFOM poster gets across a real sense of menace with Bardem’s cold, dead eyes overlooking Brolin’s frantic escape. It could be better, but I think it works.
Maybe you guys can help me out here.
I’m doing the poster for The Higher Force that’s coming out early next year and I’ve thrown up a couple of version of the poster that I like but the producer/director likes one version more than I do. So I thought I’d put them up here to see which people like more.
I like the one where the main character is smaller because it reflects his personality in the film, a downtrotten loser who everybody lords over.
Agreed, the first one looks better aesthetically too (bottom one looks a tad crowded).
I really think the look and feel of the poster is excellent.
Curious though, what do you think about the trend in one-sheet design about integrating age into the design (i.e. fake crinkles, folds, etc.)? I noticed that the last two posters (the other from the Santa Horror film) you’ve designed incorporated this (although here, it seems that the ‘aged poster’ is actually a poster in the background which the main character stands in front of…so it’s not really the same). Nonetheless, I’ve seen this ‘fake aging’ in a number of mainstream One Sheet designs as well lately Do you think this aesthetic is now coming close to over-used? Just a comment. Cheers.
If it fits the film then I’m all for it. Grindhouse did it masterfully and I’m sure many will follow suit even though it bombed like a mo fo. By the way I saw Death Proof a couple of days ago…oy what a waste of my time and his talent that crap was.
I love texture in posters so I use allot of it, maybe even too much but by putting more textures and shit in to a poster people will think that the same amount of care went in to making the movie.
In all honesty what I’m trying to do with my designs is make Icelandic film posters more “Hollywood”. Audiences here don’t really care for homegrown films, thinking that they are bad (most of the time they would be right) and that they are boring social dramas (and again they would be right most of the time) but things are changing, beginning with Astropia and hopefully the film I wrote Unholy Night. If an Icelander thought that something looked like it could have been made in the US he is more open to go see it.
Icelandic movie posters have been crap ever since we started to make movies, with a few exceptions and there is always the feeling that this was the last thing they did, a few days before the premier. In fact my BA theses was about the Icelandic movie poster and how shitty it is even though Icelanders consider themselves cinephiles (which is a load of crap). There is no love for the medium.
Oh and that’s Michael Imperioli in the poster but he wasn’t around for the photoshoot so I had to photograph a friend of mine who’s roughly the same size as him, in his costume and then paste Imperioli’s head on top of that.
Recently, I check out Dario Argento’s Suspira for the first time after hearing about the hype surrounding the Third Mother….Wow, the last 12 minutes of the film had me at the edge of my seat and the horror just keeps up building till the…well, I won’t say it for those who haven’t seen it. I can see why people among the horror circle are calling it a masterpiece. Now I’m curious to see whats going to happen in the Thrid Mother. This is the poster for the Third Mother. There is something eerie about a lady just stand there with her face hidden, not to mention the red-thing-or-whatever-it-is in the background.
Yep, that poster got Tim Burton written all over it.
I came across this article on the 2007 Movie Poster Awards and I thought I pass it along here for those interested.
2007 Key Art Award Winners
Movie Poster Award Winners
The Hollywood Reporter’s 36th Annual Key Art Awards were announced at the Beverly Hilton on June 15th. The ceremony, hosted by comedian Rob Corddry, gave out awards covering a wide range of film advertising categories covering audio/video, print, and digital mediums. The ceremony included a few new categories and awards, including “Best of Show” awards chosen by the audience text messaging votes made during the evening. The night also saw the first “Visionary Award” given to director Robert Rodriguez, for being “a filmmaker who inspires movie marketers to create work at an even higher level.”
Another highlight was the RottenTomatoes.com “Tomato Topper Award” given to the film Step Up. The award is given to a film that received negative reviews but generated positive box-office returns, highlighting the role of film marketing translating to a successful movie release.
2007 Key Art movie poster winners:
ACTION-ADVENTURE POSTERS
Crank
Superman Returns
Poseidon
Apocalypto V for Vendetta...WINNER
ANIMATION POSTERS
A Scanner Darkly
Renaissance Ice Age: The Meltdown...WINNER
Monster House
Cars
COMEDY POSTERS
Running With Scissors
Borat
Thank You for Smoking
Nacho Libre Little Miss Sunshine...WINNER
DRAMA POSTERS
Clean Hard Candy...WINNER
Little Children
Pan’s Labyrinth
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
HORROR POSTERS Descent...WINNER
Saw III
The Hills Have Eyes
Pulse
Saw III
TEASER POSTERS
Hostel
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion Crank...WINNER
Borat
V for Vendetta
INTERNATIONAL POSTERS
The Black Dahlia
Borat: Teaser
Borat: Teaser
The Prestige Paris je t’aime...WINNER
I came across this article on the 2007 Movie Poster Awards and I thought I pass it along here for those interested.
Strangely enough I agree with all of them!
Except that “Perfume” didn’t win in its category, but “Hard Candy” had a hell of a poster as well so I cannot claim that it was cheated…
