Showing posts with label poster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poster. Show all posts
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Creating an Eerie Setting and Tone, Part II

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   In the first part of this series , we considered this same topic. In this post, we take a look at it fr...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Fun Times: Make Your Own Horror Movie Poster!

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman The website is PlaceIt . You start with a template that allows you to create a tagline, a caption, a film...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Describing Images of Horror: Part 2

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   At the end of the initial post about this topic, I ended with this poster promoting the 1981 film Pos...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Writing Blurbs That Sell

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman According to Tomasz Opasinski, a fifteen-year veteran of movie poster design, a movie poster fo...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

The Thrill of It All, Part 3

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Writers are often encouraged to “show” rather than to “tell,” as if their novels and short stori...
Friday, March 20, 2020

The Thrill of It All, Part 2

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman In Part 1 of “The Thrill of It All,” we analyzed some of the design techniques that movie posters...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Plotting by Poster, Part II

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman In case you missed the initial post concerning this topic, I suggested how movie posters can help t...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Plotting by Poster

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman In this post, I would like to suggest how movie posters can help to suggest plots. Before I get to ...