{"id":18015,"date":"2016-12-15T11:25:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T11:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zilliondesigns.com\/blog\/?p=18015"},"modified":"2026-04-02T07:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:52:31","slug":"movie-poster-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zilliondesigns.com\/blog\/movie-poster-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Immeasurable Power of Storytelling \u2013 Rogue One Poster Design Inspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you tell a story? It may sound like a simple question, but the philosophy and technique behind storytelling is far greater than any type of communication. A global and traditional activity, which is a prominent feature of a constantly evolving society that relies on shared cultural activities. Among the many ways of storytelling, a popular one is posters.<\/p>\n

Posters For Storytelling<\/h2>\n

In the ancient time or before paper was invented by the Chinese, there were two ways to tell a story. One was to verbally convey the plot with punctuation and expressions that define the chapters, characters and emotions. Another way was to draw on cave walls with tools made from stone to iterate daily life. Today with paper and digital technologies, storytelling has transformed and a lot of stress is put on its presentation. In fact, with the internet posters can reach a global audience.<\/p>\n

The first film poster appeared in the late 1800s by Jules Cheret, a French lithographer and painter, who hand crafted a design for Projections Artistiques<\/em>. Today there are millions of posters circulating around the real and digital walls. As and when people discovered new ways to tell a story, poster designs matured from being a plain announcement to a visual medium for storytelling.<\/p>\n

Design Aesthetics Of Movie Posters<\/h2>\n

Once a story is ready \u2013 the bigger challenge is \u201chow\u201d to tell it. A poster, usually an A4 or A3 size canvas is all you have to reflect the core of a movie. The biggest challenge in designing a movie poster for Rogue One is to visually reflect the story with design elements and styles that best convey the essence of the plot, genre of the film, the nature of characters and the intended emotions.<\/p>\n

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The key things to notice is how the designer has used typography, illustration, composition and hierarchy to replicate the story of the movie. Saul Bass\u2019s poster designs for the films Vertigo, The Man with the Golden Arm, <\/em>and Anatomy of a Murderer<\/em> are collectibles.<\/p>\n

The five things I believe influence the success of a movie poster design include:<\/p>\n