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There are many new films in the summer movie market, but the movie posters launched one after another have been criticized. Once the posters of "Water Baby" were launched, they were accused of "plagiarism" and "spicy eyes". In this situation, how should domestic movie posters face the criticism and really boost film promotion?
The film channel "Today’s Film Review" invited Lin Siwei, director of the collection department of China Film Archive, as a guest to discuss the development and direction of domestic film posters. Lin Siwei, an enthusiast of collecting movie posters, admits that only by truly taking the original road can domestic movie posters usher in the "golden age".
Three major problems faced by controversial poster design based on plagiarism
Well-made movie posters will add color to the promotion of movies and attract more box office. On the contrary, an unsatisfactory poster is bound to have the opposite effect. Lin Siwei pointed out in "Today’s Film Review" that the poster design and creativity of the recently released or about to be released movies, including After School, Beautiful Accident and Rescue Against Time, are suspected of drawing lessons from some well-known movies in the past, and it is understandable for the audience to question them. Among them, the poster of the movie After School is exactly the same as the poster of the 2010 movie in terms of coordination, layout and font design, and the relatively rough picture matching makes this poster have a gap between "buyer show" and "seller show". Similarly, in the final poster of the movie Rescue Against Time, Yang Mi, the main character, lies curled up in a circular machine, which is exactly the same as a poster of a heroine lying in a space capsule.
For a long time, China’s movie posters have been disputed by audiences and critics. In Today’s Film Critics, Lin Siwei pointed out three problems in the production of China’s movie posters. First, the production of commercial movie posters in China has been in a stage of drawing lessons from foreign designs for nearly ten years, and the so-called "takenism" is used to simply transform outstanding foreign works into domestic versions of finished products. Secondly, domestic films invest a lot of money in the early shooting, often ignoring the late packaging, and the lack of attention to poster design also leads to the lack of new ideas in movie posters. Third, the relevant professional teams in China have just started, and the relatively backward level of graphic design in China is also an objective factor.
Commercial literature and art have their own doorways, and the artistic conception of the picture directly hits the hearts of the audience.
There is a close relationship between movie posters and movies. It is not only one of the most direct means to publicize the works, but also an important carrier to interpret the types and meanings of movies. Among them, the posters of literary films are generally more individual in style, which is a very good example at home and abroad. A variety of posters in this film are unique in design. In its "Pen Front Edition" poster, the main characters are arranged in the overall environment in a patchwork way, which fully reflects the feeling that the characters are in a moderns. In the "splash-ink version" poster, the designer puts the leading role Tang Wei in a scene full of pen and ink, so as to show the chaotic thoughts of Xiao Hong, the protagonist of the film, under the background of the times at that time. In addition, there are movie posters that use black-and-white contrast to cause strong visual impact; The series of posters of the film set off the four characters of the title of the film "A Master" with a hazy background, which has obvious key divisions and formed a sharp contrast.
As for the poster design of commercial films, Lin Siwei concluded in "Today’s Film Review": "The basic appeal of commercial film posters is big and comprehensive, which needs to include stars, plots and what the production company wants to express. For example, the posters of last year’s New Year’s film, the characters are concentrated on the main screen, which is very rich and presents a kind of egg atmosphere for the New Year. In addition, in a poster of the film, the heads of the two leading actors are opposite and opposite, and the reality and reality are intertwined, showing the complicated emotional relationship between the two girls in the film, which is neat and clear at a glance.
Lin Siwei also mentioned the films that released international posters at Cannes International Film Festival. He analyzed that this film poster mainly shows the environment and artistic conception. The poster takes the mountain city as the main scene, and a fox shuttles through a dense fog, so that the audience can intuitively feel that this is a monster story film that takes place in modern times, which successfully arouses the audience’s interest in the film. And the movie posters of the films that also emerged in Cannes also brought a very strong visual impact. In the poster, red is the main color, with a green title, and its background is an overpass that is taken upside down, which covers the protagonist on the screen and forms a complicated composition effect, reflecting the protagonist’s depressed and vacant psychological state.
Highlighting the tight encirclement, looking for creativity and insisting on originality are the only way to rise.
According to different uses and purposes, movie posters can be roughly divided into: people relationship posters, preview posters, pilot posters, international posters, fixed-file posters, countdown posters and so on. In recent years, even posters showing box office results have been constantly launched to make films popular. Facing the huge design demand, how should Chinese poster designers highlight the tight encirclement, find creativity and tap valuable creative themes? Lin Siwei described the development direction of China movie posters for the creators in Today’s Film Review.
At present, movie posters have been gradually transformed from paper-based and computerized to mobile phones, and they have begun to have practical value in both the ticket purchase process and the presentation of event invitations. If movie poster creators want to find good creative ideas, they should get involved in the early preparation and filming of movies as soon as possible. "Good design will develop to be more continuous, timely and practical, and creators should look for design ideas in this respect. In the future, the development of movies will gradually mature, and the corresponding movie poster design will get better and better in terms of visual effects and connotations. " Lin Siwei looks forward to the development direction of China movie posters in Today’s Film Review.
Light and shadow flow, time condenses, and movie posters convey to us the unique charm of film art in the form of fixed frames. The prosperity and development of China’s film industry is inseparable from film posters. Domestic film posters are resolutely on the road of original rise, and we expect it to go further and better. I hope that when we see a good movie in the future, its poster is equally classic and worthy of our retention and aftertaste.
It is reported that the daily broadcast column "Today’s Film Review" of film culture review is broadcast on the film channel at 22: 00 every Monday to Friday night.