Personally, while I find the Dune poster here a bit bland, I would say that that painting isn't really much better. It's still a really similar kind of composition, characters take up a large part of the frame and the setting of the movie is also very present. It feels more like a flashy way to present the movie's important visual stuff and characters they might recognize to the audience rather than a really artistic representation of the movie. Maybe it's a bad analogy but it's kind of like the difference between an a billboard and a mural, where that kind of painted poster is just a more artsy billboard.
You kidding? Look at Luke's pecs! And Leia's clingy and revealing dress! Hundreds of starfighters are swooping up towards the Death Star, while Darth Vader looms overhead! I guess we're just focusing on different things, because I would say that the compositions are completely different.
Not to say that a movie studio couldn't do something interesting with Photoshop, it just seems to me that "overlap production photos of the actors" is the default.
Yeah you're right, the painted poster does have more going on. I guess composition isn't the right word, it's more like someone made a rule book to how you should make a movie poster stating that you have to include at least 3 characters, a view of any IP you plan to make into merch, and the setting of the movie. Very few posters deviate from that formula.
If you ask me, all movie posters should be paintings. Photoshopping the actors over a background just feels like such a goddamn afterthought.
Personally, while I find the Dune poster here a bit bland, I would say that that painting isn't really much better. It's still a really similar kind of composition, characters take up a large part of the frame and the setting of the movie is also very present. It feels more like a flashy way to present the movie's important visual stuff and characters they might recognize to the audience rather than a really artistic representation of the movie. Maybe it's a bad analogy but it's kind of like the difference between an a billboard and a mural, where that kind of painted poster is just a more artsy billboard.
You kidding? Look at Luke's pecs! And Leia's clingy and revealing dress! Hundreds of starfighters are swooping up towards the Death Star, while Darth Vader looms overhead! I guess we're just focusing on different things, because I would say that the compositions are completely different.
Not to say that a movie studio couldn't do something interesting with Photoshop, it just seems to me that "overlap production photos of the actors" is the default.
Yeah you're right, the painted poster does have more going on. I guess composition isn't the right word, it's more like someone made a rule book to how you should make a movie poster stating that you have to include at least 3 characters, a view of any IP you plan to make into merch, and the setting of the movie. Very few posters deviate from that formula.
omg it's just a poster, it's not like they hand them out if you buy the movie.
I mean I'm just saying I don't like it, no need to read into it any further than that.
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Ill admit I do like when a theater gives you a poster for a movie or some item about the movie