The Smashing Hub lets the cat out of the bag with these 7 Essentials Of A Great Movie Poster Design
“Movie posters are a great way to flaunt your creativity ... Movie marketing is a huge business and if you are successful in making one great movie poster, you will be flooded with offers.”
I see they skipped the part that says your wonderful design will be pissed on by an idiot from an Ivy League school who doesn't know the first thing about design, but was hired by the studio to direct one.
Why does design advice never enter the real world?
Posted by: a. finisher | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 09:42 AM
"Your" wonderful design?
Posted by: a. artdirector | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Humaira Sajawal is a competent, dynamic and highly motivated creative writer.
Posted by: About The Author | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 11:03 AM
That article reads as if it went through Google translation.
Example #4 appears to be an "homage" to Example #1.
Posted by: Anita Cocktail | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 12:45 PM
"Posters these days are much more creative and attractive to grab viewers’ attention."
Posted by: Barry D. Lede | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 03:33 PM
Did anyone notice that below the article in fine print it states...
These 7 steps were actually created for the use of lab chimpanzees in the greater Los Angeles area..
Getting them all hopped up on Bath Salts and teaching them Photoshop is actually going quite well... but a few clients are missing their faces.
Posted by: Rock Lobster | Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 01:34 PM
The 7 deadly fails!
Posted by: DobieG | Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 07:47 PM