I have always liked watching films and always take notice of the advertising posters. Even more so now as I am keen to work out how it was constructed. So with little to do this afternoon, I set about creating my own. I didn’t go crazy on this project just to see if could get close and create the attraction and excitement for watching the film, that I get from a poster.
Starting with a moody image taken from a recent walkabout with Aya L’Storm. This is meant to be a horror with its dark tones and red lettering. I added the tag line below the main title and completed it with a sub-line ending in the obligatory, near you.
Fleur De Lille is stuck to a lamp post this summer in my attempt at a French movie poster. This is also the first to have the addition of quotes and ratings from critiques.
Lacey Noire is being a bit problematic in this classic homage to a well-known film company. I cannot wait to hear the award-winning songs from this one! Notice the 18 certificate classification too!
With the newspaper critiques insisting on commentating on everything still, these were created in homage to movie posters for comedy films. Either romantic comedies or those that celebrate someone’s insanity. I played around with different font types to get the look and overall feel of the film genre they are meant to appeal to. Roxy looks like she is having fun with the emphasis on RED underlined in case you were hoping for a film about a blue dress. Whereas Sebastian’s film shows no context of where he is with only a hat and shoes to help. How this became a U certificate film I will never know.
This is my favourite so far. It is an older shot of James Lee where his outfit plays so well in this image. Originally taken on a plain grey background, the wall and floor were added digitally. To create a sort of turn of the century look, a sepia tone was added. The images posted on the wall are playbills. Playbills are posters announcing a theatrical performance. These were picked up by using a site called https://picryl.com/ that specialises in public domain images. These were added as odd angles to make them look like they had been pasted to the wall in a haphazard manner.
The second is of Jack Stark, taken at the Northern wall of the Southern entrance to the Greenwich Foot Tunnel. We coulnt’t go and shoot in the tunnel as there seemed to be some filming going on. This poster mockup reminds me of a low budget indie film from the ’80s,
More to come!