More graphic design, please?
Thursday, 7. September 2006, 14:58:21
Funny that I should write so little about graphic design on this blog. After all, it's what I do for a living... Maybe I should change that soon. After all, I love good graphic design with a passion. For instance, I love movie posters, well some movie posters that is. Most movie posters these days are just pastiche work of all the exciting scenes from the movie (like the poster for Pirate's of the Caribbean: Dead man's chest) with the photoshopped heads ot the superstars hovering above it all. If I did these posters, there's a danger that I would make them look a lot like this. With this kind of image material, it's easy, doesn't take much creativity but is still very attractive. Sometimes I pick the path of least resistance when doing graphic design. I hit myself over the head about it and try to change
And of course, you have the classics, like Alien. It probably doesn't get any better than the design for the Alien poster, especially considering the brilliant tagline: "In space no one can hear you scream". Pure class!But you know what's most annoying about movie posters. It's the extremely ridiculous, absolutely laughable habit of shuffling the names around so that they DO NOT MATCH the order of the headshots on the photograph below. What dicks! These designers can't be this stupid, this must be some idiotic Hollywood bureacracy/hierarchy sort of thing.
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Fredrik Andersson # 7. September 2006, 19:43
About the actors names....
The actor's contract includes what can and can't be done with the actor's name on posters and in advertising. It dictate things such as whether the name must appear above the film's title, the location and order of the names and even the size in relation to the co-stars.
The order of the actor's names are set in stone via the contracts, but the design of the movie poster is not. What usually happens is that the movie studios place their top star at the center of the poster and the co-stars on the sides, and that's when the names do not match.
Eivind Figenschau Skjellum # 13. September 2006, 11:15
So yeah, the Jaws poster is probably better. The concept is just as strong, but visually it's more captivating and communicates that important movie feel much more efficiently.
And thanks for clearing up the name nonsense.