Print Design: Movie Posters

Print design is dying as an art form. However, I wanted to revive it in order to create three pieces of art that many people don’t really give much attention to - movie posters. We all go into the movie theaters and see these giant posters lining the walls of new films that are out and ones that haven’t come out yet. These posters are what we world normally see first and the poster are what gets the buss going for that film before anything else. So with that being said, I wanted to create three movie posters that people would see hanging up in a movie theater, but with a twist. I decided to take three very well-known films, Ocean’s 8, Singin’ in the Rain, and The Princess Bride, and create a poster for each one like they were from a different time period than when they originally premiered in order to give myself a challenge. I used the programs, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, to produce the three posters and since I have a lot of experience with these programs I was able to play with the programs more to create different effects and looks for the posters. Throughout my time of creating these posters, I cam across many obstacle I had to overcome. Some of them included having my posters look like they belong in the choose time period, choosing the right typeface, readability, and all while trying to put my own creativity and ideas into them. All in all, I was able to create three well-designed posters that could hang up in a theater near you!

Read below for more about the movie posters

Gathering Inspiration

Before the world sees a trailer for an upcoming film, they see a poster first. Now these posters are the first look into the movie, so it has to be intriguing and evoke emotion from people so they would want to see the movie once it's released. It can be daunting to create these posters, but I took on the challenge and created my own version of the movie posters for the films, Ocean's 8, Singin' in the Rain, and The Princess Bride.

I decided to mix it with movies from decades ago and one that's more recent to see what I can come up with. Since creating these posters was challenging already, I decided to push myself further to get myself out of my comfort zone and see what I am able to come up. I decided to create the posters like they were being shown in a different time period than when they were actually shown, so the poster for The Princess Bride will look like it's from the 40s, the Ocean's 8 poster will look like it's from the 60s, and the Singin' in the Rain poster will like it's from the 2016-2020 time period. Before jumping in and creating the posters with colors, images, and text I first conducted research and created a visual mood board to get the creative juices flowing and for ideas to spark.

Sketches

From there, I used the program, Adobe Photoshop, to develop multiple rounds of sketches whether it was what the poster would actually look like and different ideas to use including the look of text, positions of different pieces, and color options for each poster.

Mockups of Posters

Using another program, Adobe Illustrator, I created many different versions of posters using images, graphics I created, text, and color while getting multiple rounds of feedback until it was finally done.

Final Movie Poster Designs

After multiple rounds of feedback and trying out different ideas, I was able to create three movie posters that would be interesting and get people to see the movies if they were going to premiere in each time period.

Through this process, I learned a lot about myself as an artist and as a person. Even though I have done this type of graphic design before, I learned to not be such a perfectionist and to not take everything so personally since it was all of my ideas and work from beginning to end. However, by pushing myself and getting out of my comfort zone, I was able to try new ideas and new ways to create the designs that allowed for a better and more well-designed posters.