
Here's a one of the designs for a small film I worked on, "Turning
Point 1977". Normally a client will give me pics from the onset
photographer...."unit photography". I normally get between 1,000 -
2,000 pics to choose from, which I then put together to make the design
that's in my head. The most pics I've ever had to look through was
about 12,000....which took me 3 days to look over, for a poster that
was due in 4 days. With "1977", there were just a few pics.....so I
ended up using mostly stock photography.
Below are the original pics...except for the shot of the people, which
I can't show because it's from the film. Putting these together to make
the poster was actually quite easy....looking through thousands of
stock photos and putting them together in my head as I went, was
definitely the hard part. In LA, back when I first started, we didn't
have much stock photography available, so we had to piece everything
together....especially actors. Actors were almost never available to
take photo shoots, so if we had the time, we would use body
models....but mostly we put them together using unit photography. The
most difficult design was when I had to piece together one actor from
17 different pieces.....that killed me. No matter how difficult, it has
to look realistic...and the lighting has to be right.
I'm concentrating on my films now....so I won't be designing many posters from this point.....time to move on.....
The photos below are from "istockphoto.com".



