Pre-production poster

JoshuaNitschke

JoshuaNitschke

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Seeing as how some friends of mine dropped out of the cast of the $12k movie I'm making this summer, I have to seek talent outside of people I know. To help get people auditioning, I created this pre-production poster (ie, the final promotional posters will be much better):

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I think it turned out pretty dang good, but I'd like thoughts anyway. Would you be interested in it if you saw it?
 
I like it. I'd be interested in seeing it based on this poster. Only a few comments:

1. Instead of "An original production by..." I would consider saying "An original film by.." or "An original movie by..." - I guess to me production sounds like it could be a play.

2. And I like the line 'Cry "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war' - but I wonder if more emphasis could be put on it. How is up to you... your the most familiar with your material. But maybe you switch the placement of this line with the "original production" line.

Anyway, even without changing anything, I like it. Good job.
 
I'm liking the poster too... I did something similar as well, and we're spending a chunk of change on something this summer as well :) good luck!
 
I like it but not the font at the top ... can I try something?
EDIT: so the idea being to give the title impact and highlight the slug line ... it'll look more balanced if you put some temp text in at the bottom and things like "this motion picture not yet rated" in the hilighted rectangle it goes in.

I like the diamond gradation behind / in the font, but I would use a really fat font maybe with no serifing to show all the diamonds, and again to give it max impact, and have it take up virtually the whole bar at the top.

the medium size font just floating in that sea of black weakens it IMHO ... these are pretty sloppy, but you get the idea. I think I like #1 best with the slug line tucked over each word ... the J of course doesn't have to dip in unless you like that.

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- Jack
 
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Yeah nice poster and great idea (heartily stolen - thank you) Nice versions by JDS and Im diggin the second one personally as I think it flows from byline to title nicely.
 
if the top of the fonts are even the second is best for that reason I think even though crudely done here and the tag line should be justified acroos the top of the font in that version

looking at #1 again the top of the text should go all the way to just below the top of the page and the bottom of the letters should go all the way down to just above the edge of the black bar.

EDIT: ... here
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Thanks for all the suggestions, JDS.

I appreciate them; I already ordered a print though, if it doesn't turn out (not sure if it'll be too dark), I'll look at making some of those changes.

I want to point out though, that I didn't want a lot of attention to the slug line. It has the the potential to give some mis-conceptions about the movie because of other movies in that same kind of genre, and I wanted it to be the impression the reader left with, not came in with.

So, title + whoah cool mob poster + *pause* + "what's this?" + oh that sounds cool, and to the more literary among us, it'll give an additional meaning and hint at what the movie's about.

I hope that makes sense. :)
 
sure ... they took like 5 minutes

but ... er ... ok ... I wouldn't put anything on promotional material that doesn't completlt fit or reflect the movie.

if you don't want your tagline to have impact then you need a new tagline.
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
sure ... they took like 5 minutes

but ... er ... ok ... I wouldn't put anything on promotional material that doesn't completlt fit or reflect the movie.

if you don't want your tagline to have impact then you need a new tagline.
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It does reflect the movie, but I don't want it to be the focus. It's not the final tagline anyway.

I just don't want people thinking the dialogue is going to be like that, especially since other movies of the same kind of genre have done that.

I also want my name to be more highlighted than the tagline since I'm known where I'm putting it up. Like I said, it's not the final promotional poster, it's a pre-production poster.

I'm also don't think it has to be punchy to have the effect I want. If think being subtle can be just as effective as being puncy, and sometime more.
 
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