It’s Sunday morning.
I haven’t been writing both here and on Substack as much as I would like to. I haven’t been out too much for photos either. I would say the conflict between hobby-photographer and ‘make photography a side-hustle’ is generating this. Some days you have energy to write and to take photos and other days not so much. Perhaps a lack of direction plays a part here.
Instead of starting my day with YouTube I opted for Pinterest. Yes, I know – it is still a time suck but I found YouTube to be a bigger blackhole for time. Four fifteen minute videos is an hour. Gone. A few ‘quick’ shorts and boom one hour later you wonder WTF. No direction means whichever vehicle you get into determines your direction.
Pinterest does have its drawbacks. It is a visually distraction place. A candy store of images. Desktop setups. Travel photos. Cabin porn. AI generated kitchen layouts. Retro movies posters.
The last stop on the list gave me an idea. I’ve delved into movie posters previously and I enjoy creating these posters using my own photos. The past few weeks I’ve done a few photos of product packaging. Noodle packaging. Crisps packaging. The bright orange and yellows with bold text is captivating to my mind. The idea of graphic design isn’t something I disregard completely. Perhaps it is something to explore.
One of the movie posters is spotted was for a movie titled “Memento” by Christopher Nolan. It is from the year 2000 and stars Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano and Carrie-Anne Moss. I haven’t watched the movie but I will leave you with a short description from IMDB.
A former insurance investigator who now suffers from anterograde amnesia uses notes and tattoos to hunt down his wife’s murderer.
The design is nicely done especially the parts of the poster which has the glitch effect really pulls it together for me. From this point I did a bit of a search and found a few more interesting posters which got me working and thinking.
From this one I gathered a few more ideas to include for my next creation (which I already have in mind).
- Include the text at the bottom of the poster. Producers, actors, etc., etc. These are something I remember from movie posters which I had against the walls in my room as a young man and saw at local cinema’s.
The polaroid photos is similar to windows. The main character uses these as his way to create or recover memories. I thought back to the other posters I created and I can work with some of my existing images. Some of my latest photos centered around the idea of image blur and shutter drag. What better way to simulate a hazy memory where you can only remember blurry bits of what happened?
The result
As with the previous posters I created I went for a the movie name and director in the center. Release date at the bottom. Instead of just a single quote I went with more than one, some with a larger font size and different opacities. The lower opacity similar to faded memories and the blur within the image also linked to things we can’t always remember clearly.
tl;dr
Saw a cool poster for a movie and made my own.
This type of creativity is something I am starting to enjoy a bit more. I’ve thought about using this as a more central theme for future photography – take photos with the idea of making them into a movie poster at some stage.
Thanks for reading : )