Anyone want to help make a poster design?

Jay Rodriguez

Jay Rodriguez

Coffee Member
It's for my boxing film that I've been working on all year (on and off). My friend is a publisist and she's working on a press kit for me so th eposter will be included in the kit plus on the website. :)

The website is HERE so all cast/crew information is available.



Some sample posters that I love are:

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Images from the short:

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Coffee,

I'd like to work something up. Can you link me to some hi-res stills and grabs offline that I can work with?

You said full credits are on your site?

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The stills above are straight from FCP are those not hi-res? I feel like such a noob asking that. lol

The short was shot with a 35mm adapter so the stills are grainy.
 
what font did you use?
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how about something like this
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jeremy,
I'm not in a rush for it so take your time. I mean the sooner the better but no rush for sure.


img,
good question. the font is called Fayettenam. Click here to get it: HERE

also, I like that poster! NICE! Can you add some info on the bottom like credits and stull to see what that'll look like?
 
No to be a downer, but have you thought of having a still photo session with your lead actors in order to get the shots you need? This is a very common practice and very few images you see on posters are taken from film footage.

You ask if yout FCP stills are not hi res. Fair enough. Not everyone knows print work. For photo quality prints, you will want 360dpi. DOTS per inch. I assuming you will be printing posters for this example. The first thing that may come to mind or given as advice has something to do with "72dpi" and something about that's all your monitor can display. It's all hogwash and matters none. Ignore it. For example, my main display is a 22" CRT. My screen resolution is 2048×1536. I dont have the exact match, but my onscreen DPI is about 115dpi or something, but again - this doesnt matter. We want PRINT figures.

360 dpi. For PHOTO quality. We can settle for less as posters are large and viewed from a distance so quality can be less. Interpolation handles multiples best so divide that in half and a 180dpi print will look very good. A poster is 27x41 times 180 and our poster image PRINT dimensions become 4860x7380. That is HUGE. In comparison, your FCP still is 720 x480. At 180dpi, that prints to 4x2.7 Not quite poster sized.

Considering it's an indie film and you dont have huge budgets, you can cut that 180 down to 90dpi and still get a decent looking print. But again, incomparison, your FCP still is 27dpi at poster size.

I'm in production on a ultra-low indie and even considered renting a 22mp med format digital for my print campaign. I "settled" for using my own 16mp digital and it will yield very nice results, if not ideal. But again, the resolution comparison is 16mp vs. .34mp.

I'm sure you can put together some very nice web banners with the "film" stills, but you will still have a hard time even getting a decent looking postcard printed from it.

Looks like principal photography may be complete, but an easy way of doing this is shooting production stills with even a modest digital. A low end 4mp camera will still yield you much greater results.

-GageFX
 
GageFX articulated very well why I asked if you had higher resolution promo stills that I could incorporate into an 11 x 17 or larger poster.

300 dpi is the spec I typically work to for anything that goes directly to CMYK printers (mine is AcidFlyers.com).

Anyway, if you can scare up a digital SLR and squeeze off some stills of your principals, that would help the PShop gurus a great deal.

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BTW, thought I'd point out that I got the 360dpi figure from an Epson tech. (I have 5 Espon printers from small to large format) and that was the figure for inkjet.

Overland is correct that 300dpi is normal for commercial printers.

-GageFX
 
Coffee:

Take a browse over to http://www.posterwire.com and read it all. It's only been around for a couple years and you can pobably read the whole site in an hour or two. It offers great insight into poster designs, designers, and what ulimately gets used as the final one sheet.

For my geature, I started with my stills shoot, getting my lead in every outfit, pose and angle that I think I would want. (Of course I missed some I would have liked, but that happens.) I then poured through poster after poster of films and poster designs that caught my eye and would work for the feel of my film. I then when about copying those posters with my images.

I copied not with the intent to use the designs, but to get my hands moving and my brain creating something, anything, to then get me thinking in other areas. I kind of kick start. The designs quickly left those original caopies and I had many designs of my own. It wasnt until I had to think of a tagline that it all really came together. I tried and tried and tried to think of something witty (I'm NOT that wity tagline type guy.) and suddenly the obvious presented itself and I had no reasonable way to work it into my existing original designs.

In an attempt to work in that tagline, a new, completely different design emerged and it is wholly original and quite attention getting. The design is 100% original and looks like nothing else out there, but I never would have arrived there if not for my copying existing designs.

I have another shoot planned with other characters in the film and will do a "big heads in the sky" type poster to show a couple other characters (I'm actually more concerned with getting my talented actors faces out there than with showing the characters.) and the new posters will be closer to my original original designs, but I will be back to the tagline dilemna.

Anyway, that was just my journey so far, and no, none of the poster designs are online. We haven't started our press push yet and we wont release designs until we do. But it will be soon.

Good luck with your designs.

-GageFX
 
I think this poster looks GREAT. Simple, but speaks volume's. Add in your text and credits, and it's perfect... In my opinion, of course.



img said:
what font did you use?
tfw_site_logo_TXT_big.jpg
how about something like this
1166826700.jpg
Click to expand...
 
The two boxing gloves show the loneliness of the journey. I would however
have those gloves look worn, but that's just my .02 cents.
 
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heres what i came up with if you want any changes to it if you like it i can this is it shrunken it is 24 x 36 in the end. BTW this shrunken version doesnt do it justice.
 
here close up full rezzed but then compressed to jpeg 12 grade so even this isnt the best grade but you can tell all the detail.
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Coffee, I haven't had much time to come up with a whole new concept, but I did play around with img's poster to try and make the gloves a little more worn... but I think I went over the top.

Gloves01.jpg


I like Spidey's... I might make the credit bigger though.

EDIT:: Did a different version and re-uploaded^
 
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