Tag: fridayonesheet
Friday One Sheet: DEAD MAIL
Delightfully low-fi and textured, the key art for Joe DeBoer's and Kyle McConaghy's Dead Mail not only is a great reflection of the analog style of the film, but also offers a significant amount of information about the plot. The...
Friday One Sheet: THE SECOND
This beautiful watercolour poster for Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos's The Second is hiding a subtle secret in plain sight. The short film centres around a pistols-at-dawn kind of duel, and the underlying complexity of motivations across two generations. The lead...
Friday One Sheet: TATSUMI
I remain ever a fan of taking a compelling still frame form the film itself, and composing it into key art. Below is the poster for Yakuza drama, Tatsumi, in which leads Yûya Endô and Kokoro Morita offer each other...
Friday One Sheet: LONGLEGS
Grim, dead of winter foreboding, and a hint of an aged photograph aesthetic set the tone for Osgood Perkins' latest period film, Longlegs. Perkins is a kind of specialist in slow burn chillers. His previous films February or I Am...
Friday One Sheet: MOTHER SAIGON (Má Sài Gòn)
Quebec/Vietnamese filmmaker Khoa Lê's documents a portrait of the LGBTQ+ in modern Vietnam in Má Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon). The hazy orange and pink key art offers its own kind of public intimacy, and sends out a strong core visual on...
Friday One Sheet: OCCUPIED CITY
There are many ways to make a piece of key art. Be it a minimalist totem or icon from the film, those adventure blockbuster collages, be it photoshop or hand-painted, the surreal Dada-ist Polish style, or simply a shot of...
Friday One Sheet: THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Negative space factors quite figuratively into the execution (as it were) of Jonathan Glazer's magnificently icky, and profoundly disturbing domestic drama, The Zone Of Interest. Design studio Kellerhouse have integrated that into their key art for the film, which features the blackest...
Friday One Sheet: LIMBO
The pull quotes filling the open sky here say as much about the film as they do about Australian Carnival Studio's design ethos for the film's key art. Ivan Sen's striking, monochrome new cold case, outback noir Limbo is a...
Friday One Sheet: ROTTING IN THE SUN
Sex and death. Eros and Thanatos. A corpse with an erection being consumed on a beach. The latest queer comedy from Sebastián Silva (director of the criminally underrated Magic Magic) gets this lovely hand painted poster (if you zoom in...
Friday One Sheet: CREATURA
The 'polaroid' style one-sheet is a particular favourite of mine. As you can see below for Elena Martín's Cannes fêted Creatura, it allows room for pull quotes at the top, a well-kerned title below the image, and an ample credit block that...
Friday One Sheet: We Need To Talk About EXPENDABLES 4 Tagline
At first glance, the new key art for Expendables 4 (or Expenda4bles if the never-good-to-begin-with trend of swapping letter for numbers in the title card has to be brought into the aging action franchise) is a similar design on the...
Friday One Sheet: ASTEROID CITY
Earlier, a trio of character posters was released for Wes Anderson's latest, Asteroid City. They are all very similar, with the Pantone-teal sky and rocket-man in the background. I will focus on the one that has Scarlett Johansson kitted out...
Friday One Sheet: PENNY PINCHED
This wonderfully minimalist key art, for Kat Cayton G's avant garde short Penny Pinched, was designed by LA illustrator (and podcaster) Tori Huynh. With falling tennis balls (one on a string for some reason) on a sky-blue field above, prone...
(Good) Friday One Sheet: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3
Good Friday is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary. It is perhaps fitting (ok, mighty cheeky) to draw parallels to the way Marvel Studios has been foregrounding the definitely not-a-raccoon character Rocket in its...
Friday One Sheet: HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE
Let there be no criticism of clarity on the key art for Daniel Goldhaber's eco-thriller, How To Blow Up A Pipeline. Large fire-engine red stencil letters, overlaid onto black smoke, foreground the title of the film that tells any prospective...
Friday One Sheet: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART ONE
In spite of its incredibly clunky title, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh film in Tom Cruise's M:I franchise has its first piece of key art, and it is lean and minimal. This teaser poster, from Concept Arts,...
Friday One Sheet: JOHN WICK CHAPTER 4
The mountain of John Wick: Chapter 4 marketing has been fun and colourful, as is the franchise it supports. Recently, the film had a series of artists do different takes on key art, and while there are several of these...
Friday One Sheet: INSIDE (again)
The key art campaign by design house Arsonal, for Vasilis Katsoupis's psychological art-heist movie, Inside, continues to bear fruit. Here we have an abstract rendition of Willem Dafoe's face with manifestations of various emotional states (or demons) busting out from...
Friday One Sheet: THE ECHO
The power of a single image is full on display for in the key art for Tatiana Huezo's rural Mexico documentary, The Echo. A child hugs a tree. Simple. Not so fast. The colour scheme is cool blues with a...
Friday One Sheet: DALVA
This balanced piece of key art from design house Silenzio taps all the photography basics. Rule of thirds? Check. Bokeh? Check. Implied motion with low shutter speed? Check. In the digital-layer decades of over-processed, and cluttered, movie posters, the French,...
