Filmdoo Poster Competition

I've decided to take on the Filmdoo Poster competition. I decided to make a poster for Marvel/Disney's Captain America: The Winter Soldier as I have recently watched that film and it is fresh in my memory. Before I started I also made note of the dimensions of the piece being 282 x 1020mm or 726 x 1020mm. These are dimensions usually associated with film poster sizes of 'one sheets' or 'quads' and aren't the generic 'A' format size. Had I not took the time to review the brief correctly this could have potentially caused problems down the line.

Initially I played around with layouts that mimicked a generic film poster with a character or two in the foreground whilst additional characters/scenery filled the space in the background. However I thought about the source material of the film being a comic book and decided to make a poster with panels and such whilst also appearing to be poster like (see below).


I made a collage in Photoshop using stills from the film and preexisting film posters before tracing over the work and colouring it digitally. I initially wanted to stick to a colour theme of three colours. However when I came near to completing the piece I really felt a fourth colour was needed to help make the poster stand out a bit. I had used a subdued blue, brown and black so the introduction of a bright red was very welcomed.