Fan made film posters.

Cantona's Collars

What's the best anyone has seen,some are pretty awesome.





http://themadbutcher.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0

Skerries

krudler

dunno if they count but the Alamo Drafthouse posters are class:










hand drawn posters ftw, hate photoshop floating head ones

SVG

I love fan-made posters- there's usually some effort involved. So many official posters these days are just lazy...



Photoshop+Laziness.

Seriously someone got paid to do that! Compare it to this one done for a fan contest by Bryan Lenning



Way better! Effort+Creativity

One of my favourite recent ones is this poster by James White for Drive



So great!

WatchWolf

krudler wrote: »

dunno if they count but the Alamo Drafthouse posters are class:










hand drawn posters ftw, hate photoshop floating head ones

The ROTJ one is beautiful.

krudler

WatchWolf wrote: »

The ROTJ one is beautiful.

I forgot the other two, both as nice, the Empire one is fantastic






this one is class as well:

pixelburp

krudler wrote: »

hand drawn posters ftw, hate photoshop floating head ones

Wow, tell me you can buy these things; I've been looking for some quality posters / prints for my house & empty frames - I may have found some contenders

krudler

pixelburp wrote: »

Wow, tell me you can buy these things; I've been looking for some quality posters / prints for my house & empty frames - I may have found some contenders

I'd imagine you can, prob cost a bomb though

Mickeroo

The Alamo Drafthouse posters are savage, thats what movie posters should be like.

WatchWolf

krudler wrote: »

I forgot the other two, both as nice, the Empire one is fantastic






this one is class as well:

Wow they're all fantastic. Where'd you find 'em?

krudler

Mickeroo wrote: »

The Alamo Drafthouse posters are savage, thats what movie posters should be like.

Indeed, the lack of creativity in moden movie posters is saddening, its all photoshop floating heads, there's still some cool posters but the majority arent very memorable

krudler

WatchWolf wrote: »

Wow they're all fantastic. Where'd you find 'em?

just google image seach alamo drafthouse posters, theres loads

pixelburp

krudler wrote: »

Indeed, the lack of creativity in moden movie posters is saddening, its all photoshop floating heads, there's still some cool posters but the majority arent very memorable

I'd say that arguably in the grand scheme of things, the film poster must rank very low in studios' priorities in their marketing campaigns, which might account for their generally poor quality these days.

Time was a film poster was the first (and only?) indication of a new movie on the horizon for cinema-goers. So I guess it stood to reason they be works of art in their own right; something to catch the eye & imagination of the public. Now, in the era of the internet & saturation media coverage, the film poster is a total anachronism, unfortunately.

How do you buy these? Or can you? I really want this:

krudler

pixelburp wrote: »

I'd say that arguably in the grand scheme of things, the film poster must rank very low in studios' priorities in their marketing campaigns, which might account for their generally poor quality these days.

Time was a film poster was the first (and only?) indication of a new movie on the horizon for cinema-goers. So I guess it stood to reason they be works of art in their own right; something to catch the eye & imagination of the public. Now, in the era of the internet & saturation media coverage, the film poster is a total anachronism, unfortunately.

lazyness in modern posters, exhibit A:



exhibit B:



now some of those posters are quite nice, but all very, very similar.

Cantona's Collars

Great minimalist Dark Knight Rises poster.

Where does copyright lie with these posters? Can the artists make money using (what is presumably) a trademarked image? Is that why they all seem to be limited runs?

nyarlothothep

The Kill Bill poster really brings out the essence of the film, if that makes any sense. The Rocky poster is conceptually brilliant and poetic, really hard to come up with visuals like that.

Bobby Baccala

krudler

very nice:

crazygeryy

krudler wrote: »

dunno if they count but the Alamo Drafthouse posters are class:

thats so much better than the original.the original looks like a child drew it.

tok9

zerks wrote: »

Great minimalist Dark Knight Rises poster.

While that is a very cool poster, it's definitely a copy of Resistance 3 on PS3

mike65

The Rocky poster is excellent the rest for the most part look like fanboy stuff rather than a piece of media that would sell a film to the general public.

zerks

zerks wrote: »

What's the best anyone has seen,some are pretty awesome.





http://themadbutcher.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0

I think that guy used to post his photoshop posters on the bloody-disgusting forum boards, the obsession with Scream is all present and correct. Have to say that I don't find his work in the least bit interesting or impressive, it's generic photoshopping with no real sense of style. If you look through deviantart you'll find some great old fashioned style hand drawn posters like the Alamo Drafthouse ones posted here.

Sadly this sort of thread could soon be a big no no on here if the upcoming Irish copyright law that EMI and Sean Sherlock are pushing through.

Mickeroo

I love love love that My Neighbour Totoro poster!

I think this is probably the best official poster I've seen in I don't know how long.

johnny_ultimate

Language barrier prevents me from finding out if it is official or not (this is definitely official) but I love this poster to death:

johnny_ultimate

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Language barrier prevents me from finding out if it is official or not (this is definitely official) but I love this poster to death:

I assume it's official as I have a one sheet of it hanging on my wall. One of the most inventive and visually impressive posters in a long time.

Mickeroo

Deleted User wrote: »

I assume it's official as I have a one sheet of it hanging on my wall. One of the most inventive and visually impressive posters in a long time.

Really? I guess you have to be an evangelion fan to get it? Don't get me wrong, it is nice though.

S.M.B.

Always liked:



Available at www.polishposter.com

paddy kerins

Olly Moss' posters are fantastic







More here

Mickeroo

Mickeroo wrote: »

Deleted User wrote: »

I assume it's official as I have a one sheet of it hanging on my wall. One of the most inventive and visually impressive posters in a long time.

Really? I guess you have to be an evangelion fan to get it? Don't get me wrong, it is nice though.

Don't have to be a fan to appreciate a poster that is so simple yet effective. Sure there's more meaning to it if you followed the series but it's far more artistic than 90% of modern posters. Put it this way that poster could hang in a gallery as a work of art, doubt there's a single poster in multiplexs right now that could hang alongside it.

Bobby Baccala

S.M.B.

Deleted User wrote: »

Don't have to be a fan to appreciate a poster that is so simple yet effective. Sure there's more meaning to it if you followed the series but it's far more artistic than 90% of modern posters. Put it this way that poster could hang in a gallery as a work of art, doubt there's a single poster in multiplexs right now that could hang alongside it.

Maybe a gallery for average movie posters but that's about it.

johnny_ultimate

Deleted User wrote: »

Don't have to be a fan to appreciate a poster that is so simple yet effective. Sure there's more meaning to it if you followed the series but it's far more artistic than 90% of modern posters. Put it this way that poster could hang in a gallery as a work of art, doubt there's a single poster in multiplexs right now that could hang alongside it.

In fairness, I'd say 50% of the power of the poster lies in whether you 'get it' or not (and the reason I doubt it's officialness is that it doesn't really gel with either the domestic or international marketing). But I do think it's a beautifully simple but powerful image. But like most posters, I much prefer the ones that are actually related to the theme. Like the Social Network:



Or Somewhere...



I think the Olly Murrs style ones are often very, very nice (some better than others - the Moon one gets it fairly bang on particularly) but I also think it has created a 'style' of fan-made posters that has made them all look kinda the same and generic. There's an art to being able to sum up the tone and feeling of the film in a poster. And a lot of the fanart ones just settle on pop art or formulaic 'blockbuster' stylings instead. IMO

mike65

paddy kerins wrote: »

Olly Moss' posters are fantastic


More here

Looks like he might be a fan of Saul Bass. Actually there is no might about it!

johnny_ultimate

Now this is a striking and beautiful fan poster:



Much better at summing up the atmosphere than the official job!

pixelburp

Deleted User wrote: »

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Sadly this sort of thread could soon be a big no no on here if the upcoming Irish copyright law that EMI and Sean Sherlock are pushing through.

Huh, what's this about? Is Ireland getting it's own SOPA-a-like?

pixelburp

pixelburp wrote: »

Deleted User wrote: »

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Sadly this sort of thread could soon be a big no no on here if the upcoming Irish copyright law that EMI and Sean Sherlock are pushing through.

Huh, what's this about? Is Ireland getting it's own SOPA-a-like?

We are, it's been talked about fit the past few months and Sean Sherlock is fast tracking it as we type. It's just another example of big business dictating law making policy to the government and I'd recommend that people start emailing the people involved to air their grievances. This policy could mean that sites such as Flickr could be inaccessible in Ireland or that EMI could have a blog that gives a negative review to one of their acts simply because the author used a copyrighted image of the band or album cover above the review.

aidan_walsh

pixelburp wrote: »

Huh, what's this about? Is Ireland getting it's own SOPA-a-like?

Somewhat off topic, but potentially yes.

pixelburp

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Somewhat off topic, but potentially yes.

Holy crap; cheers for that. I won't derail the thread with any more talk, but I'm shocked something like this could get its way into Irish law whilst we got all hot & bothered about the US doing something similiar

Now back to our regular scheduled programme; I've been hunting for those prints online, there's not really anything that comes close to Olly Moss' material :-/

SVG

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I think the Olly Murrs style ones are often very, very nice (some better than others - the Moon one gets it fairly bang on particularly) but I also think it has created a 'style' of fan-made posters that has made them all look kinda the same and generic. There's an art to being able to sum up the tone and feeling of the film in a poster. And a lot of the fanart ones just settle on pop art or formulaic 'blockbuster' stylings instead. IMO

There's some truth in that but I'll take formulaic fan-art over formulaic commercial posters any day of the week. Colourful illustrations will always beat photoshopped floating heads in my book. And there's lots of non-Olly Moss/Saul Bass-ripoff fan posters out there too.

That's not to say that all official posters are bad but I think a lot of them are just lazy. I know a poster that is trying to sell a film is going to look different than one done by a fan but that doesn't excuse their general blandness. Just from last year, I thought Jane Eyre, Bridesmaids, Melancholia, Black Swan (to name a few off the top of my head) had creative, interesting posters that still managed to show the actors and give an idea of the film. Sadly these seem to be the exception rather than the rule.

WatchWolf

Makes "Source Code" look like a Hitchcock film heh heh.

don ramo

i know its not a film, but i remember this poster around the time of season 2 or 3 of chuck,

krudler

this was better than the actual poster:

krudler

Mickeroo

the posters for Nolan's Bat-movies are generally top notch too noww I think of it.

krudler

its not a fan poster, was an unused one, but I always loved this, cant find a bigger image:

Bobby Baccala

WatchWolf

Anyone know a website where you can buy these sort of posters?

don ramo

WatchWolf wrote: »

Anyone know a website where you can buy these sort of posters?

kill bill one here,
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kill-Bill-Tyler-Stout-Alamo-Drafthouse-Mondo-Signed-Tyler-107-600-Mint-/290636184256
i suppose some of these poster would be considered art, most of them wouldnt be cheap,

id say getting them made up yourself would be better, anyone know if most places that do photos would do them for ya on larger sheets,

Cazale