Getting Started Right away I knew I would have to do action and horror for my chosen genres. They are easily two of the most popular movie genres and often times there are scenes that give a completely different feeling from action or horror, as movies can be completely horrific or action packed! Choosing the third one was a little tricky, as I have a love for animation and a distaste for their posters, but animation isn’t a genre, but an art-form. Romance and comedy came to mind, but I’m actually not the biggest fan of pure romance movies, and I have to be in a specific mood for comedy. So, naturally, I went with the genre I always lean towards: drama.
was surprised by the poster design. It’s not that it’s bad, but that I found myself not entirely enjoying it, so I thought this would be a fun challenge to take a movie I hadn’t seen until now and try to capture its best frights in its poster.
With my three genres finally narrowed down and research done, I had to choose my movies. I ended up choosing movies I was either familiar with or was open to doing a lot of research for. For action, I chose The Hunger Games from 2012. I’ve seen that movie too many times to count and I still enjoy it to this day, but its poster certainly speaks for the time of its release. I thought it would be incredibly fun to redesign the poster because of this! As for drama, I chose The King’s Speech. This is a movie my dad really enjoys and one he and I are able to connect to it to a certain degree. He has a form of stutter and I inherited it to a much lesser degree but it’s still there and, as someone with stage fright despite having a profession that requires me to talk in front of people to explain my work, the movie really touches us both in certain ways. That said, most of the posters for this movie–save one that I personally really enjoy–aren’t the best for the film, and they fail to capture the emotional heart that can be found in The King’s Speech. Finally, I decided to go with A Quiet Place for my horror movie poster redesign. I hadn’t seen the movie yet but I’ve heard nothing but good things about it, so I
(The Hunger Games, 2012)
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