Poster research

I researched lots of different style posters for inspiration and also as a template to look at how to create a good and interesting designs for film posters. These are examples of the very best ones.

The poster for the film called blow up on the left is very-very power full, because of the block red background. There is very quirky also disgusting black and white photo on it. The black and white and red creates a good contrast between the red which is the first thing to get the audiences attention and it still doesn’t take your eyes off the main grotesque picture of a photographer sitting on a dead women to get a good angled shoot.

I liked this poster because of the idea of the montage on it. Black and white shoots of the film are used with some black blocks to create a silhouette of a man with a gun. The title stands out because half of it is red and because of the size.

Very famous image of the poster of "the Silence of the lambs" There is close up of the main character with high exposure light and high contrast, the eyes and the butterfly kind of bug stand out of it, because of the colours. It also has a contrast between that the eyes suggest that the person is open and want to tell something, but she can not.

This is an award wining poster of the film 'Full metal jacket'. There is a very strong message shown using only simple things and clever combinations. That is the camouflage soldier hat and the words born to kill writen on it giving a horrible meaning to the picture, and than the white peace simbol as contrast next to it, suggesting that not even 'the soldiers who where born to kill' want war.

This poster I chose to talk a bit about because it is recent, it has a two shot on it and it also suggests something of the film. The features suggesting some kind of a reverse thing is the main title written as a backwards mirror image. The facial expressions are also very interesting. There are a bit of warm colour to it on a block black background.

For the film 'Spirit' they created a series of posters several main ones, but i chose the first one because it has all the characters on it. The others show the women around the main character in the film and they give a hint of their personality by having a line of theirs from the film, on their face. The colours suggest the colours of the film, which is similar to the ones in sin city as they were both created by Frank Miller. They created interesting lighting and contrast. The title stands out everywhere because of the bright red colour.

Overall I think the possibilities and creativity behind creating a film poster is endless and only limited by the content of the film. I choose these particular ones to show a range of different styles and approaches.