Masters of the universe movie teaser poster!!

Originally Posted by Eamon

and that sentence is Masters of the Universe!

"Masters of the Universe" is a noun phrase, not a sentence.

Originally Posted by Eamon

That would completely mess up the symmetry of the poster and be awkward to read.

The first solution is optically-justified, and the second is center-justified; both retain bilateral symmerty.

Originally Posted by Eamon

You might want to get Carson's book on typography!

1. I studied typography exstensively while completing my B.A. in Graphic Design; I do not need recommended reading advice from one who thinks that four elipsis points indicate a pause, and that a noun phrase is a sentence.
   
2. Perhaps you should read Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst.

Looks awesome, Looks official. You got major talent there. Great work, NO,

EXCELLENT WORK.

Originally Posted by CRAZYMOTUFAN

Looks awesome, Looks official. You got major talent there. Great work, NO,

EXCELLENT WORK.

Cool, thanks!!

Originally Posted by Adam_Prince of Eternia

"Masters of the Universe" is a noun phrase, not a sentence.

Well in this case I saw it as a sentence as it is part of a narration.

Originally Posted by Adam_Prince of Eternia

The first solution is optically-justified, and the second is center-justified; both retain bilateral symmerty.

I disagree.

Originally Posted by Adam_Prince of Eternia

I studied typography exstensively while completing my B.A. in Graphic Design; I do not need recommended reading advice from one who thinks that four elipsis points indicate a pause, and that a noun phrase is a sentence.

Perhaps you don't with your mighty B.A. an all, but it certainly appears that you could badly use some manners.
Why did you even bother posting? It's obvious you don't care about the actual design and only cared to show off your awareness of typography.
That kind of crap gets right under my skin!!
Opinion just for the sake of it!

Oh and I too have a B.A. in Graphic Design but I generally just use my portfolio to impress!

First, I want to say I love the poster. Teaser posters are nothing more than to capture you interest. Because the main thing people will notice is the title - Masters of the Universe - it succeeds. Those who know what MOTU is will get excited wanting to know more and those who don't will most likely go to the internet to find out what it is.

Second, why does it seem everything that is written nowadays is up for critique of its grammer? This is a movie poster. This isn't an English language class. His point is made in the poster. The average movie attendee most likely won't even notice the dots let alone that there are four instead of three. i only bring this up because recently there was an article in the local paper complaining about the placement of a comma on a billboard. Again with this if you are paying that close attention to a billborad - which of course a poster like this could become - you have something seriously wrong. And the car in front of you will have something seriously wrong with it as well when you hit them while staring so intently at the billboard.

Ok there's my rant for the day. Again, enjoyed the poster and as stated by Patreek, I would also like to see a comparison to a more LOTR style poster - think the teaser for Fellowship.

P.S. feel free to correct my English - I'll just ignore it anyway.

Originally Posted by troyah

Ok there's my rant for the day. Again, enjoyed the poster and as stated by Patreek, I would also like to see a comparison to a more LOTR style poster - think the teaser for Fellowship.

Glad you like it!
I will most likely do another one and it seems LOTR is the flavour of the day so I will go down that route. But can you show me this Fellowship Teaser?

Not sure if this is the one he means, but this is the only Fellowship teaser I could find



tho personally I prefer thie look of this one, if you replaced the Two Towers with Castle Grayskull and Snake Mountain



Oh and for the record there is nothing wrong with the design of you poster, it is very well made as is most of the stuff you do and really does get you thinking about MOTU. I was just merely attempting to point out that these thoughts were not ones of excitement about a possible new movie but rather "should I rewatch the old movie has I haven't seen it in years."

Indeed that is the one wolfsfang. Thanks for finding it.

And your idea for the Two Towers one sounds pretty cool too.

I always like your work Eamon but I'm not feeling this poster. It's well done though.

It really doesn't say anything MOTU for me. It's just "Universe". Space. The logo treatment is really cool but the background just looks very plain/ordinary with no real connection. It's not too exciting nor is it grandious (weird to write that considering it IS the Universe afterall but that's what I'm getting.)

It needs more or maybe something to tie it to the movie itself.

I guess I would say that it's missing that ever needed "oomph!"

I'm not trying to be harsh, just honest so I hope it reads that way.

* Oh, and as a master of the "...", it really is only three dots to indicate a pause.

I like simplicity of this poster but I can see why that may not be to some folks taste.
I will be doing another one and I will take what folks say here into consideration.

Originally Posted by Eamon

I like simplicity of this poster but I can see why that may not be to some folks taste.
I will be doing another one and I will take what folks say here into consideration.

Looking forward to it. I can picture a poster with a similar feel to that first FotR poster with Grayskull in the misty distance or something.

I actually started another one around the same time but it just wasn't coming together. I may revisit that one!

In my head this is what I pictured... i dunno if it could even work compositionally.... but on half of the picture you have a close up of he-mans chest...so you see his emblem maybe his face is even cut off idk and then behind him you see this mythical awesome landscape and then in the distance you see grayskull and then maybe WAY WAY WAY int he distance in almost a silhouette you see snake mountain. Since its a teaser poster I think that could work.

Originally Posted by troyah

Second, why does it seem everything that is written nowadays is up for critique of its grammer? This is a movie poster. This isn't an English language class. His point is made in the poster. The average movie attendee most likely won't even notice the dots let alone that there are four instead of three. i only bring this up because recently there was an article in the local paper complaining about the placement of a comma on a billboard. Again with this if you are paying that close attention to a billborad - which of course a poster like this could become - you have something seriously wrong. And the car in front of you will have something seriously wrong with it as well when you hit them while staring so intently at the billboard.

The error should not remain in the work simply because the audience for the work may not recognize it.

Originally Posted by Eamon

Well in this case I saw it as a sentence as it is part of a narration.

Narration or not, "Masters of the Universe" does not contain a clause, and is not a sentence.

Originally Posted by Eamon

Perhaps you don't with your mighty B.A. an all, but it certainly appears that you could badly use some manners.

I offered two solutions to a typographical problem in your work—suggestions that you solicited—and your response was to mock my knowledge of typography, and it is I who is ill-mannered?

Originally Posted by Eamon

Why did you even bother posting? It's obvious you don't care about the actual design and only cared to show off your awareness of typography.
That kind of crap gets right under my skin!!
Opinion just for the sake of it!

Why did you bother to request feedback on your work when you are not interested in the critique or revision thereof, but with unmitigated praise?

Originally Posted by BCI Guy

A 3 dot ellipses indicates either missing words or a more dramatic pause than an em-dash. It can also be used like you did at the end to show a "trailing off". I'm not sure why there is an ellipses before your first line of text.

A four dot ellipses is used when you are removing a full sentence and technically it's still a 3 dot ellipses PLUS a period to "end" the missing sentence.

I believe proper grammer would have you get rid of the first one completely and remove 1 period from the last one.

Bingo..

Originally Posted by Adam_Prince of Eternia

I offered two solutions to a typographical problem in your work—suggestions that you solicited—and your response was to mock my knowledge of typography, and it is I who is ill-mannered?

Why did you bother to request feedback on your work when you are not interested in the critique or revision thereof, but with unmitigated praise?

There are ways of doing things and I found your way rather rude as it contained nothing else but your corrections. If you can't see that then that's too bad.
As I said folks who know me know me to be very open about crits. You can believe that or not.
I didn't like your tone, it didn't sound helpful and felt only as if to serve your ego.


Back on topic! I got a bit of a brain wave yesterday and I think I can do a new logo based on this shape (which seems to work well) and I will be giving it some colour.

As for folks suggesting ideas, thanks but you have to be realistic when it come to movie posters. You can't just ask for mountains and grayskull and all that without having any materials to work from. That's how a movie poster works. They use existing material and imagery that's from the actual movie. When they actually start releasing stuff from the movie, that's where the fun begins!
But I will certianly take some of the stuff you guys recommended!

I really like it!

Hmm...

Ah' dunno' here mate. The background is really colourful and therefore you made the text stony and colour-less to make it pop out. But I don't think you've got it down to a tee here man.

The text is like others have said reminiscent of Transformers, but why got that route? Wouldn't it be better to do something different?

Something more elaborate, I guess is what I'm trying to get at. Just look at the original Movie and Toy-logo, there's some interesting shines and stuff happening in them.

I realize there's little to nothing to work with, in the background, since nothing official has really been revealed, but a nice little cheat could be to copy a move from the original Movie's teaser-poster.

Mostly dark, but in the middle is the silhouette of an extremely fit lad, holding a glowing sword, the only source of light, up in a familiar pose. Of course you wouldn't use the earth background and skelly-face in the moon, but put your own take on the background, probably a landscape completely out of fantasy.

Originally Posted by Eamon

There are ways of doing things and I found your way rather rude as it contained nothing else but your corrections. If you can't see that then that's too bad.
As I said folks who know me know me to be very open about crits. You can believe that or not.
I didn't like your tone, it didn't sound helpful and felt only as if to serve your ego.


Back on topic! I got a bit of a brain wave yesterday and I think I can do a new logo based on this shape (which seems to work well) and I will be giving it some colour.

As for folks suggesting ideas, thanks but you have to be realistic when it come to movie posters. You can't just ask for mountains and grayskull and all that without having any materials to work from. That's how a movie poster works. They use existing material and imagery that's from the actual movie. When they actually start releasing stuff from the movie, that's where the fun begins!
But I will certianly take some of the stuff you guys recommended!

I don't recall Adam being particularly rude but then we both know how posts can always be interpreted differently on this board...

Anyhoo, back to the poster. What do you mean by your last paragraph? I have seen teaser posters that incorporate imagery from the movie it's advertising...

Originally Posted by oICEMANo

Anyhoo, back to the poster. What do you mean by your last paragraph? I have seen teaser posters that incorporate imagery from the movie it's advertising...

Exactly! Imagery from the movie! Where am i going to get Eternian mountains and Castle Grayskull when there's no movie yet?!
Take the Transformers teaser. There was no movie at that stage but the robot designs were well under way or they had an idea of what things were gonna look like. They were able to get that eye looking over planet earth. Earth is was easy to get.
As we have no idea right now as to what MOTU is even gonna look like, I gotta keep things relatively open.

So make it up... its not like anyone is going to use a teaser poster that a fan has made up regardless of how "official" he thinks it looks. At least they'll get an idea of what you could do with official imagery...

oh yeah! I could swipe some stuff from The Chronicles of Riddick or any other WB film and Castle Grayskull only needs to be a silloutte anyways.
(I reckon they will keep Grayskull hidden from us for quite a while).

What did you think about my idea, Eamon?

There's some nice idea in there dude but I don't want to do anything that looks like the old movie.
I have a bunch of ideas in my head and you've mentioned some of them already.

I'm gonna work up the with a different surface later in the week.

This actually may have too much of an 80s feel for me than a new, modern movie.

One thing I don't like is the black space at the top pushing everything down. I think the MOTU logo and the words above it should be pushed up a bit. The space stuff behind the logo kinda drowns the logo itself out a bit.

Since the word "power" is highlighted in each sentence, I do like the idea of linking them up somehow. I'm not saying right under each other, but I think there may be a more eye catching way to arrange the word structure there, taking advantage of the word power.

Eamon, That is beyond Awesome! Seriously, you've outdone yourself. I'll make sure to spread the word as best I can. Best of luck with it!