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I'm in Communications. I have to make a poster of a fictional movie that would never come out. I chose Annex High, a story of a school ruled by sadistic children. It's a horror novel, and thus a horror film, though I have three designs, of which I don't know which one to go with.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/ExtremeDumb/AnnexHighPoster-3-Thumbnail.jpg
[1]The third design I made, the picture being me. Simple.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/ExtremeDumb/AnnexHighPoster-2-Thumbnail.jpg
[2]Stylized drawing of Terrence Herbart, one of the leaders of the gangs at Annex High. I based it off of me (victory).

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/ExtremeDumb/AnnexHighPoster-1-Thumbnail.jpg
[3]Timothy Raven, the main antagonist, highly stylized and very hard to make out, but based off my friend.

I am looking for a disturbing, not neccessarily violent look. Which one portrays it best?

The first.

1 and of course now you have to make the movie or we will break your legs!

Agreed. The 1st one is most appealing.

The first one. The others are great graphics-wise, but they're not so great as movie posters.

The first one looks more professional. They're all good, but the second two look more like a high school kid playing around, rather than a real movie poster.

2, I just like it better. 1 is my second choice.

I like #3.
GORY.

For the first, you could also make the righting under "Annex High" a little larger, although at a poster's size, I suppose it'll be more clear anyway.

I agree with everyone else; the first one is the best.

3

Between the first and the second, the second has a better tag line.

I don't remember exactly, but center your 'coming' portion of the poster and move it up slightly. If you have an exact date usually you'll also have all the credit goop on the bottom as well, so maybe "Fall 2007" would look more natural.

EDIT: I take it back, the date thing is fine now that I've looked at it again.

impressed.

went for 1

any chance you will design me a cover for my memoirs? ill pay you when i see you next. honest.

the title is "Life in the city, Jaysis its tough"

I like all of them... but the third one is my favorite.

impressed.

went for 1

any chance you will design me a cover for my memoirs? ill pay you when i see you next. honest.

the title is "Life in the city, Jaysis its tough"

Jaysis its tough?

The first, but I'd crop the photo image used much more severely, focusing on an area of interest - say around the eyes/glasses. I might also not extend the image to the full bleed of the right-hand side of the page. The image would be better served if there were an 1.5" column of pure black set along the right-hand side - and the text below could be used to emphasize such a column.

As for the text, you have two lines- set flush right, rag left - and yet it's been set in the middle of the page. As a graphical element, the text is effectively adrift and unrelated to the image above it. I would increase the size of the font by about 40% and shift the block of text over to the far right, to better define the black border I mentioned above.

If you're planning a two-colour strategy, might I propose that you colour-treat the grayscale values present in the human face so as to play off the red used in the text below? That way the colours wouldn't be black & white (and gray) with red, but instead black & white and red. It would help to keep a stronger relationship between the text and photographic elements.

Sorta like this:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j315/crashcow/NSG/mockup.jpg

Hope that helps.

And yes, I went to school for this stuff.

And yes, I make a lot of money at it.

Good luck.

the first one. its the only one that made me think that i might like to go see that movie. isnt that the point of a movie poster?

Directed @ Dobbsworld...

I'm following the rule of thirds.

I have my own professional and business experience at this as well, you know. ^^

While I respect your advice and will look into it, remember that every graphical artist is different in the accord that he prefers to stick to a specific style. I want to leave the black space on the left end there since it is going to be cropped a bit anyways.

The red saturation is a nice touch, though I want it to stay a fairly nice dark gray-black shade against a distinct white edge. A red 'feather', while nice, is a bit too much like an old fashioned poster for me (not to say my style is quite old fashioned in that anyways). I'm just trying to blend both slightly more modern, generic styles such as the contrasting, unblending black and white together while keeping some things slightly old fashioned.

The text doesn't seem that bad to me - the whites ('H' and 'begins' line up, slightly off which will be fixed, etc.) and the reds don't seem to drift for me.

Thanks for the advice, though. It's just in my style, and while it's meant to suit a client, I'm making it suit me. ^^

I like all three of'em, but I believe #1 fits your purpose best. Although the stains on the 3rd make it look really great - any way you could somehow put those into the 1st?

Wow! I just saw that Dobbsworld has suggested a similar thing. Hmm. Interesting! Although I wouldn't change the size/position of the writing, just make the drops dark red or something ;)

I could, but the excessive stains are what makes the 3rd one different from the second (very, very stylized) and the first (just me with contact lenses).

I could, but the excessive stains are what makes the 3rd one different from the second (very, very stylized) and the first (just me with contact lenses).
I see what you mean and know what you're getting at.

The reason I meantioned the red stains in combination with the first picture was that I had the feeling that it somehow lacked... something. That's very vague, just like that feeling I had when looking at the picture.

Great job none the less! (Don't get me wrong. It's amazing!)

I see what you mean and know what you're getting at.

The reason I meantioned the red stains in combination with the first picture was that I had the feeling that it somehow lacked... something. That's very vague, just like that feeling I had when looking at the picture.

Great job none the less! (Don't get me wrong. It's amazing!)

*Shrugs*

I could put in stains and see how that works out.

A Note - I didn't vote, so whoever picked the fourth option uh...sure.

Uno, by far.

And I picked the fourth option. :D

How comforting.