#poster leak

[hatsampixie]

Uh.. Folks, I think Roku just leaked a new Godzilla vs Kong poster.

[case-of-the-strange]

[Episode IX]

Hux: so now that ur the supreme leader what do u want to do?

Kylo: paint the stormtroopers red.

Hux: r u sure that doesn’t sound like a good use of our resou-

Kylo: R E D

[babbushka]

What’s wrong with it? I think it looks fine, lmao 🤷🏻‍♀️ idk anything about design though

lol i’m banking on it not being the final version of the poster, or even a real poster tbh because the composition is an absolute mess. 

Good design draws your eye specifically to certain areas of the poster in an order, by using lines to sort of direct the eye, and in this poster we have 5 different lines, two being parallel, and two being perpendicular, which visually creates a very confusing pathway for the eye to follow -- do we focus on what’s in the middle between the parallel lines? Do we focus on the meeting of the vertical and horizontal line? 

The placement of the characters is bizarrely awkward too, we have Rey, Kylo, and a mysterious red storm trooper all on the same vertical -- the direct middle of the poster which is supposed to be reserved for the most important characters or rather, the most important part of the poster itself. Why place this red storm trooper there, and not Finn, who instead is awkwardly cutting off Rey’s arm with the top of his head, as he stands next to yet another mysterious alien creature? 

The placement also confuses the eye because there are so many overlapping things happening at once, it becomes hard to decipher just what’s going on. It took me a couple seconds to figure out that 3PO is holding Chewie’s bowcaster (which doesn’t make sense because Chewie is there on the other side), because it’s in front of Finn and the shape gets lost in Finn’s jacket. Same thing with Finn’s blaster, I thought for a second the alien was holding it and not him. 

Also the eyelines don’t make any sense -- the only two people looking directly forward are Rey and the mysterious red trooper, everyone else is looking slightly off center or obviously in a direction off-poster but not in a way that suggests purpose as it might have if everyone on either side were looking in the same direction cohesively. 

It’s not just not very visually comfortable to look at, this poster doesn’t feel designed as much as it does crammed.

[case-of-the-strange]

The Knights of Ren Annual Family Portrait™

[case-of-the-strange]

Sad music plays as Kylo Ren moodily hot glues his helmet back together.

Little does he know that in this very moment halfway agross the galaxy Rey is taping anakin’s lightsaber together and listening to the exact same song.

[case-of-the-strange]

[Episode IX]

C3PO and Chewbacca stare at each other’s identical bandolier and crossbow getups from across the room.

“Well someone’s gonna have to change”