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127 Hours

127 Hours

Artist: Sixlightyears

This film poster shows a small part of the films story line.

In my opinion this picture look like the cavern in which the man falls. However the bottom of it has the resemblance of a hand. It is ironic because in the movie the mans arm is trapped under a rock and he has to cut it off. 

This shows that he mans arm is left behind. Without seeing this movie this just seems like a sinister hand in red, almost looking like fire or blood by the use of the color red, which symbolizes danger and death. This image has a mood of pain and death and the hand looks lifeless. The vulture flying in the sky shows that someone is vulnerable and is near to death this adds o the mood. With the majority of the page being black it symbolizes helplessness and loss of life. This makes the image look intimidating and sinister.

Olly Moss

Olly moss uses simple shapes and bold colours in his work by doing this it makes his images stand out and very attractive.

In the dirty harry poster he uses different shapes in a very clever way. He make the silhouette of a face using the edge of a smoking gun.
Great use of a limited colour palette and some of the designs use clever graphic elements (Clint Eastwood’s face is made from the negative space of his Magnum) and some shadows form multiple images (Rocky’s arms being help high in silhouette as part of the steps he runs up in the famous montage, training scene. 

Have a look at the rest of these posters via the link. My favourites are the Dirty Harry and the Robocop ones, although the Saul Bass Influenced Rocky poster is great as well.

In the ‘stay sharp’ image the use of the finger being a pencil uses humour with a sharpener meaning the literal term ‘stay sharp’ meaning a pencil.