Creating a movie poster

interesting. thanks rubbersquare. that kind of feedback (your impressions of tone and intent) is very helpful. and as a matter of fact, your impressions are very true to the spirit of the film. thanks, man.

i wanted to feel a weight pressing down on her, a heavy, claustrophobic feel. with a contrast between an urban and natural landscape. hopefully without making the design too busy as well. you know? anyway, still exploring...
 
Thank you, Prodigal !

Thank you, Prodigal !

I appreciate the criticism. I love shooting movies all by myself and criticism is all I have to work with when judging my work.

I guess I lack the background for all the elements of design that go into making successful movie posters.

The main problem I have is that I don't think iconic. I like the concept, don't get me wrong, it's just that it's not how I think. I think all jumbled-up, if you know what I mean? :happy:

By looking at my trailer, could you tell me what are some possibilites?
 
well, watching the trailer, taking into consideration the titles (and even your "jumbled-up" comment), my suggestion would be taking some screen grabs (yes, i know the comments about screen grabs, but stay with me) and making them a collage that creates a butterfly's wing. possibly just a profile (not all four wings) and using the images to create the pattern on the wings. it could be very artistic, like you actually cut them out and pasted them in like an art project. that would give the sort of raw, real feeling of the film and show the frailty of life, like the frailty of a butterfly's wing. my 2 cents.
 
Good suggestion. I actually did that, but I couldn't pull it off.

The butterfly disappeared and the pictures didn't come together for me.

It looked too jumbled up.

I know there is an idea in that, but it will take another graphic artist to pull it off.

I did several versions. They were all bad :-)
 
prodigi, thanks for taking so much time to mindfully consider my poster. your impressions and ideas will be taken to heart as i continue to develop this film's representative image. thanks!
 
It's hard to critic it without seeing the finish poster, but just looking at what's there I'd have to say the poster looks lonely, don't know if it's intentional, but I would like to see more graphics on there and you said you will add graphics later but this is what I see now.

Also, all text except the movie tittle seems a bit small, can't really read the names and other stuff on there, maybe it's my monitor. The color scheme looks cool. But overall all I would have to say this is almost impossible to critic without seeing the full vision. Maybe in 8 months or so I'll be able to give a better critic.
 
will there be a "concrete wall" where there is a black b.g. now?

last night i started d*cking around with another for our other feature...

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Thanks for this, I just saw this yesterday and spent a good few hours coming up with a font, logo and layout for my first poster. Don't have an image yet but my girlfriend and I drew about 8 different ideas before we settled on a graphic idea. I think we're going to shoot it and tear it up in photoshop, but it was a great exercise and now I have something to look at. Always nice to feel like you've made a bit of progress against a huge project.
 
Prodigi Pictures said:
In fact, people should be studying your work. You prove that simplicity is powerful.
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i'm blushing! thanks! but i'm actually an art director for an ad agency by day, so it's kinda cheating on my part. heh.

Prodigi Pictures said:
AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT:
- The horizon line feels odd. It doesn't fade away like a natural horizon...it feels like a hard cyc in a studio.
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actually i went back and forth on that. the hard horizon felt to abrupt. this was my favorite compromise. but i totally see the cyc quality about it.

Prodigi Pictures said:
My #1 complaint is that the image of your puppets completely contradicts your theatrical poster design. I understand that they're in the same movie, but from a marketing standpoint I'm completely confused because they feel like their from two completely different worlds. Is the movie a gritty crime drama or is it "Meet The Feebles" by Peter Jackson? If it is both, then you've got to find a way to have an integrated campaign. A consistent tone to all your advertising material is critical to establishing how the audience will perceive your film before they see it.
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again, i went back and forth. initially i wasn't going to release the puppet version, i actually only had it as a hidden rollover on the main poster. then one of the reviews grabbed the puppet version and used it, so i figured it was more of a "character" poster than an official one.

Prodigi Pictures said:
Why aren't we working on a movie together?
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you tell me! :D
 
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