Fading Posters 2/4

Here are some more examples of film posters, however these follow different conventions in terms of film posters, these all have a feature where they have their main characters all on the poster together, fading in and out to each other, normally with the protagonist in the front or is the largest on the poster.

These two posters are both for famous fantasy films "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (2001) and "The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug" (2013) both of them show very different things, while the Harry Potter poster is just the characters standing around, expect for Ron & Hermione, the poster shows their characters better (Hermione being a book worm and Ron being a goof). The Hobbit poster however, has the all the characters (Except for Gandalf) holding a weapon, showing it has action. Also having Gandalf as the main character on the poster, not the protagonist that the film is about, he is to the side and is the only one who looks afraid.

Here are two posters for two science fiction movies, the 2009 reboot "Star Trek" and 2012 "Looper". The Star Trek poster is designed with the iconographic colours of Star Trek, grey & blue, however this poster only features several of the characters rather than the entire crew. As for the Looper poster, this is an interesting design as it has both versions of the same character posing the same way but on opposite ends. This shows the binary opposition between the two, but also the similarities that they share.

As for these posters, they are for the 2007 "Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls" and 2008 "Iron Man". For Crystal Skulls, this poster is designed very diffently from the previous Indiana Jones films, while the other films had a hand drawn style, this one is clearly done on a computer made to look hand drawn in the style of the previous films. While for Iron Man, this poster has a barrier between Iron Man and the rest of the characters, connotating that there is something between them in the film, as well as this, there is also an explosion in the background of the poster, enforcing the genre that this is an action film.

This design for a poster is very common and has been used for decades, so it is a very popular style, however, I am unlikely to use this design for my poster for several reasons. The first being that it would require a lot of time and effort in order to design this style of poster. The other reason being that there really is no need for a poster like this, seeing as most posters like this tend to be used for films that have an ensemble cast, or at least a large cast, however my film only has several main characters with the protagonist being Hayden, however I haven't fully decided yet on my design, so there is still a possibility I may design a poster like this.