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Empire are responsible for so much of the promotional work for on Hollywood movie posters and trailers. I bet it’s an interesting field to be involved with considering how many posters set the tone and expectation for a movie. Comparable to book cover design? Are any of our readers involved in movie poster work?
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2nd Mar 2009
11:54 am
Theres this guy that i live with who works at Empire
mark
2nd Mar 2009
12:08 pm
we do film posters
Gil
2nd Mar 2009
12:28 pm
@Mark Is it interesting or just dull and repitetive?
@James do they have a big team then at Empire?
Michael Nilsson
2nd Mar 2009
2:18 pm
Did some film artwork myself, while at Imaginary Forces. Interesting to do, as your design requires a lot of flexibility — in order to meet the various formats/language versions it’s presented in.
I know this guy Paul Wilson, who used to work at Empire Design, and these days he has set up his own design studio in Copenhagen called Yellow1 (www.yellow.dk). When he arrived to Copenhagen, he more or less monopolized the film poster market, and is responsible for most of the poster work here in Denmark.
Ivan
2nd Mar 2009
2:29 pm
I had a placement with Empire when I first moved down to London. From my personal experience I found it very interesting but it was not what I was looking for as a new graduate. The photoshop skills these guys have in Empire are phenomenal. I believe that Jack Crossing (one of the writers for FFF) works there so maybe he could give you a bit of info about Empire.
Tony
2nd Mar 2009
2:47 pm
This is a field that I would love to try out for a couple of years. I think it would be great to have had the honour of working for such great productions.
Thomas Brooks
2nd Mar 2009
3:12 pm
I live with James Le-beau Morley
eric
2nd Mar 2009
5:20 pm
Excellent film, great moment !!!!!!
Corey Holms
2nd Mar 2009
5:56 pm
I\\\’ve done some movie posters – it\\\’s a love/hate thing. There\\\’s equal amounts of good and horrible things about the job. 99.9% of the work I do goes straight into the trash can, if you can find a way to cope with that, then it\\\’s a pretty nice job.
Thomas Brooks
2nd Mar 2009
6:06 pm
Gil, Empire is a large operation, though the actual poster concept side is run by a team of about 8, with 4 or 5 additional production designers with mad photoshop skillz.
There is repetition, 95% of the work we do is poster format, though I could never describe it as ‘repetitive.’ We work on Summer blockbusters, Oscar hopefuls and independent art house releases, this breadth of work combined with the knowledge that our designs reach out to millions every day keeps us on our toes. Making film posters allows for subtle, emotional design within a highly commercial sector. For this it is probably one of the most challenging but fulfilling jobs in with the field of graphic design.
Gil
2nd Mar 2009
6:34 pm
@Ivan when I was researching this I thought the name Empire rang a bell and now you mention about Jack Crossing it all makes sense.
It’s definitely something of intrigue to me and the extremely mad skills people that work in this discipline posses. I’d love to work in this area even for a small amount of time and learn from the people behind the magic.
The reason I said it might of been repetitive, was because of a friend who used to work in album cover design (but it may of been poster AW, I forgot) and as glamorous as he said it was, after being in it for 5+ years was just all a bit too samey and mundane.
This all came out of a job we had in the studio recently working on some existing movie poster AW. Interesting response and thanks again to all of you.
preeya mistry
3rd Mar 2009
5:45 am
i have recently moved from the uk, to work as a graphic designer for a mumbai based design studio.
one of my first projects here has been working on a big bollywood movie campaign. though i suspect conceptulising and designing movie posters in india works in a similar way to mainstream films in the west, there are many considerations which you just wouldnt even be thought about back home. sometimes its even funny. working on a single film campaign has taught me so much about indian mentality and culture.
Jack Crossing
3rd Mar 2009
10:44 am
EMPIRE RULES!
mark
3rd Mar 2009
11:32 am
Lucky at allcitymedia as we get alot of the good films and there’s a certain amount of freedom but like alot of creative jobs it’s a battle against marketing. Check out allcitymedia.com and see some posters that were not chosen.
Mark