How are movie posters made?

That's a good question indeed. Here is what I can share; 1. In most cases (almost invariably), a studio's Art & Marketing Division is responsible for making movie posters.

This they do either with the help of the artists employed in their studio or they hire some firm (advertising agency) or freelancer who do it professionally. 2. Sometimes a company is hired and sometimes freelancers.

There is no specific rule. 3. There are following types of movie posters; i.

Lobby Cards ii. Character Posters iii. Teasers iv.

Animated Posters 4. Here is an outline of process of creating movie posters is as follows. Although it does not give the detailed day-to-day procedure because it depends upon a lot of factors such as type of poster, the agency creating it, the way artists/experts take up the job, the budget, technical facilities available in the studios, whether the poster is hand made (sketch/cartoon etc.) or is based upon some stills or trailers from the movie, whether it is animated or not etc. Etc.

I. Creating an effective tagline. Ii.

Selecting the most impressive character/portion/still/picture etc.Which conveys almost the whole idea/theme of the movie. Iii. Deciding the size.Iv.

Deciding the circulation v. Getting it printed/created vi. Getting it published 5.

About the payment of artists/experts designing the poster, again it depends upon a lot of factors such as; i. The budget allocated for the purpose ii. The desired quality of the job iii.

The quality of the output iv. The reputation of the artist v. Whether it is created by a company or by an employed artist or by a freelancer (in most cases, freelancers are paid less)?Vi.

The size of the poster vii. The size of the circulation 6. Here are the names of a few famous poster artists and their posters that took the world by storm; i.

John Alvin - The Extra Terrestrial, The Lion King ii. Drew Struzan - Star Wars, E. T: The Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future, The Thing, Jurassic Park iii.

Howard Terpning - The Guns of Navarone, Cleopatra, The Sound of Music Although the answer does not cater exactly what you wanted because things are highly conditional, still I hope it serves some purpose. Thank you.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.