Japanese remake of hollywood poster

Japanese remake of hollywood poster reflect a strong japanese favour into it. 

Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills

The American feminist artist Cindy Sherman (1954) is famous for the Untitled Film Stillsseries (1977-1980) that consist of black-and-white photographs of the artist posing in different stereotypical female roles. Although she poses for her photographs, Sherman’s pictures are not self-portraits in a traditional sense.

The roles in the Untitled Film Stills series vary from an immature schoolgirl to an attractive seducer and from a glamour diva to a caring housewife. Importantly, her work encourages self-reflection in the spectator. As Sherman argues, “I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.

Quote from http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/sherman.html

Jean Jullien horror movie poster

HORROR MOVIE POSTERS

create three type-based posters to promote a horror film festival. the posters promote either three different films or the festival as a whole.

Olly Moss remake of famous movie poster

Brillant movie poster work by Olly Moss. Less is more!

As for film poster collectors, I have noticed a shift away from a strict
policy of collecting posters of one genre, director or star, towards an
approach more appreciative of the image and design of the poster. Bass' ability 

to transcend a film's 'look' and create meaningful symbols has made him the 

single most requested film poster designer of his time

quote http://www.saul-bass.com/

Cuban Film Posters

El Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) was responsible for both domestic film production and the distribution of foreign films in Cuba. By founding a silkscreen workshop to create posters for all films shown in Cuba it created an aesthetic unity between these two branches of activity. The characteristic look of the Cuban film poster help fuse national and international productions into a single cinematic cultures.

As with Polish posters, Cuban designs were used not so much for promotional purposes- cinema was consistently popular and most films showed to a full house- but more as a form of cultural education,presenting a distinctively Cuban Slant on the film's subject.

Thoughts:

Can singapore movie posters reflect that kind of aesthetic or present a distinctively Singapore slant?

Function of a movie poster

It is often said that movie posters communicate the essence of film. This is not entirely true. In some cases poster and film are tied closely together and speak with one voice. the former summarizing the latter. In others, they are utterly separate, created by identical messages. Instinctively the former situation would seem more satisfactory than the latter. -indeed I tend to judge contemporary posters on their fidelity to cinematic style but in the fullness of time, the film poster takes on a life of its own. More than echoing the evolution of cinema, the independent trajectory of the film poster reflects the changing nature of the audience. Posters are primarily advertisements and their task is to connect with the people on the street, not with the images on the screen. To some, the distribution of films might seem to be the grubby commercial end of a creative endeavour, but once explored in any depth it is less easily written off. The history of the film poster is the ongoing story of the link between cinema and the society.

quote from "A century of movie posters from silent to art house"

                      Emily King

Some key points about film poster:

Film poster reflects the changing nature of the audience.

Task is to connect with the people on the street.

Some personal thoughts:

If adv have been constant changing to cater the changing pattern and nature of their target audience why not movie poster?

Movie style fashion

          

     

Photographer Steven Meisel shoot a City sin style fashion shoot for Vogue Magazine.

TSTOUT Spoof Movie Poster

I am a huge fan of tstout spoof movie poster. Highly detail silk screen movie poster. It a work of art and when you see a work like this the value goes beyond anything.

Polish posters

1940 polish movie posters are totally creative driven. They are poetic and beautifully to look at. But sad to said mainstream poster dominated the rest of the world! It will be out of the norm to portray movie poster like this anymore. It will be consider as ART with no promotion value in it? More can be found in this link: Http://www.agrayspace.com/posters/

Trend in indie movie poster

A trend for indie movie posters to be different from mainstream movie posters is using illustration

in the posters

Righteouskill movie posters

The first three designs are choosen to be release worldwide.

There are always many versions to a movie poster. But true enough the best designs is not the one begin used.