Posterwire.com is a movie poster weblog. From images of the latest Hollywood one-sheets to vintage movie posters, this film poster weblog hopes to offer a bit of insight into film key art.
Smokin’ Aces director Joe Carnahan’s official site features a weblog written by the film’s creator about the upcoming film. For the past few months, Carnahan has been posting Smokin’ Aces poster designs that didn’t make the cut. It’s a rare opportunity to see all the unproduced movie posters that never make it to your local movie theatre lobby. As most film advertising art directors and designers will tell you, sometimes their best poster design work never sees the light of day beyond their own portfolios.
Carnahan has posted several rejected (or “killed”) movie poster concepts, along with his own commentary about each one sheet design, including info about why particular designs were not chosen to be the official Smokin Aces movie poster. Our favorite example is his blog entry about the “Franz Ferdinand poster” design:
Here’s another one guys. This one almost became the one-sheet. The problem for me was, I couldn’t get the similarity to the Franz Ferdinand Album cover out of my head! Is it just me? I like the images, even though they seem a bit crowded/jammed together.
The director has also been using his film weblog to run his very own movie poster contest, inviting his blog readers to submit their own Smokin’ Aces movie poster designs.
Does anyone else agree that the current poster being used looks alot like the Rent poster? When i saw it in public i thought the current production was coming to town.
Makes his Franz Ferdinand comment kinda ironic…somebody got the work though so its all good.
Hmm. Seems like all of the “rejected” posters are much better than they final one they chose.
This one is really nice:
http://smokinjoecarnahan.com/2007/01/the_classic.php
I’m sure some art director somewhere in Los Angeles felt the pain of having that one rejected.
if it reminds you to franz ferdinand, it should also remind you to aleksandr rodtschenko, who originally designed the poster. he was famous for integrating photography and graphic design into one composition. just look here: http://demo.sfgb-b.ch/TG03/suprematismus/4_nav_kuenstler/rodtschenko/plakat.jpg
greetings, oli
This blog has been great help for my current college project. This post in partular with all the different posters submitted in has been a great resource for me, so cheers!
Nice article. I like the part with franz ferdinand. Please don’t invite your readers to submit their own Smokin’ Aces movie poster designs….!
Thanks
Melanie