Reynold Brown
What I noticed about most of Reynold Browns posters are that they're mainly for sci-fi films, and so the vast majority of his imagery is illustration based, which isn't something I'm a fan of, because I think they look a lot more like book covers than film posters. This is something I'm quite eager to avoid in my poster.
Drew Stuzan
Drew Stuzan's posters tend not to use text at all, which might not sound like an excellent idea at first in terms of advertising, but when you consider what films he did posters for, you realise that text isn't really necessary to make people aware of what the film is because of how iconic the films are, as shown above with Star Wars, Indiana Jones and the Shawshank Redemption, all of which are done in a very distinct style. These sort of posters are my favourite film posters, it's unfortunate however that this sort of thing is going to be completely written off in my project though due to the 2 colour limitation.
His most iconic film poster though is for The Thing. The silhouetted man in a winter jacket with a bright light exploding out of his face became the defining image of the movie and is generally considered to be one of the best and most successful movie posters of all time. Because of its success, it's quite a popular choice when people create alternate movie posters, but the more modern style of posters that people make are nowhere near as successful as the original, which is ridiculous given the amount of time that was available to Struzan to produce the poster, more details of which can be found here.
Alternate posters for The Thing that have been produced.
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