More Science fiction book cover or posters

Hello everyone, hopefully this will be my last article for this research. This post shows you more examples and hopefully doing of all this detailed work should allow me to produce a very good product.

The edited one

Orginal one

 

I found the original and the edited Metropolis science fiction posters. The main characteristic that they share in common is the scale and positioning of the robot. Both version display the object at the bottom of the poster. However, the colour scheme in the original does prevent the robot becoming the focal point due to the lighting effect. The use of very bright streaks of yellow light causes people to view the title first rather than the unusual object. The recently developed poster manages to make the robot the main attraction the highlight are only featured on the face and the upper-body. 




 This advert relies on lighting and textures to make the ship the focus point. This early science fiction advert features a space ship that shows characteristics a hot air balloon and a submarine. Merging 19th and 20th century technology on the main image makes the design have Steampunk traits. This visual attribute would most likely stay in the viewers' minds due to imagery coming across as unusual and captivating. To allow the illustration to look more dynamic and visible, very bright highlights, which comes from the sun, reflects on the front of the ship. Immediately this causes the top right area to be focal point, meaning that the audience would pay their attention to the title after viewing the object.


Another captivating element is the typography being surrounded by electricity. The use electric styled font makes this area of the poster look very busy and effective conveys the electric theme.


Featuring a small planet rather large one makes the composition feel too empty. The central area would have benefited scaling the planet up a little bit to make the key thing about the story obvious. On the other hand, the scale and the positioning of the ship does give the audience the idea of the size of the unusual space ship. 

King Kong.

 When I think of early science fiction, King Kong are the key words associated with the genre. This poster features the creature destroying the planes whilst holding a girl. The scale of the creature is the drawing point for the image because his angry face expression and muscles are more visible and look very threatening. This large impact would not have been achieved if the creature was positioned further away from the camera. The detail of the fatally damaged airplane also strikes people's mind because the destruction intensifies the terror and anticipation, which encourages to watch the movie to see entire story. 

After looking at the image, the target audience would shift their attention to the blue building and the title. The title is able to strike and stand out because the yellow stands out stand when blue is surrounding it. The structure of the pose guides the viewer from the head, down the spine and eventually the lower half of the leg that is covered by the title.









sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%281927_film%29
http://designspiration.net/image/1177458040544/
http://io9.com/5832671/how-science-fiction-cover-art-got-its-pulpy-sense-of-wonder
http://www.art-wallpaper.net/movie/King%20Kong%201933/