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Directing a film is not the complete job of a director, as his efforts remain unnoticed till he promotes his movie in the most efficient way all over the globe before and after the release. Coming up with a movie after long time surely adds an excitement among the viewers to know what the movie is about and who all celebrities are a part of the movie. A best way to promote a movie is through movie posters. These posters are really attractive and catch the attention of viewers even in a big crowd. Movie posters must be pasted on the walls near cinema halls, public places and other prominent places where they get noticed in the easiest way.

Before a movie is released promotional movie posters showing the leading celebrities in the movie can be displayed. Special online promotion should be done by making the movie posters a part of the online poster websites. Poster websites can show categories like movie posters, celebrities posters etc to display the posters of the upcoming movie and posters of the celebrities working in the movie. People who are more Internet savvy might not be aware about the movie getting released but while surfing Internet they can surely come across the poster and know about the movie. Promotional team of the movie should also promote the movie by making movie posters a part of free online poster sites where a person can download the free poster and use it in any way.

Once the movie is released it is now time to come up with the movie posters depicting the most powerful scenes of the movie. People who have seen the movie will recall the movie and the once who have not seen it will surely be encouraged to watch the movie. Keep updating online poster sites even after the movie is released so as to provide viewers with the latest online movie posters.

All the directors can surely make use of movie posters, as the most potent tool of publicity.

Modern movie posters are rubbish. They have no life, colour, inventiveness or artistic pretensions. They just have one job to do:- clearly and concisely display a film in typical poster format to advertise the fact it is showing at a cinema near you now or in the near future. Full stop. Period. Boring! How has the movie industry allowed the quality of movie posters to fall to such a parlous state?

There was a time not too many years ago when cinemas were exciting places to look at and be in. Cinema chains were smaller and more widespread than they are today and as a result each cinema had a certain character to it, be it in the garishly colourful and musty, carpet upholstered chairs or the ice cream lady touting for business at the interval. Oh, and the cinemas back then actually showed x rated films (mostly b movies and lots of them!) that adults would watch, none of this dribbly MOR 12 certificate rubbish back then, oh no!

Nowadays, just about the only place to see a film is at concrete carbuncle multiplex where 6 or 7 films are displayed across an enormous amount of screens, most of the films featuring adult themes, watered down to a 12a for comfortable tweenage consumption and re-consumption (and adults might also like them). One size fits all – and not a very comfortable fit at that. And that reminds me, despite being more spacious than they used to be, the seats seem to make my derri?re ache with much more brio than in the old days. So what has all this got to do with the nosedive in quality of modern movie posters?

Firstly, there just aren’t as many independent movie theatres and cinemas around today. The only place I can conveniently see a film is at a large concrete multiplex – a capitalist cathedral. This is not how it used to be. 40 years ago I would have had the choice of 4 independent cinemas to go to within one mile of each other in my local town. I’m speaking as a UK resident although I am sure the situation is the same in many other countries in the western world. There is a distinct lack of competition at modern movie theatres because the large studios run the show now – there are only a limited number of films showing at any one time because the studios purchase multiple screens to show the same film and ensure maximum exposure. In the earlier years of cinema, right up until the late 80′s, there were more studios, more independent cinemas and a system that was not dictated by a few powerful film studios. There was a much more level playing field between films and studios over which films played. How long a film played for was a different story. If a film did not do well during its first week it would get pulled ruthlessly and another shoehorned in to take its place. If it did well it could keep its place for months (I remember when I was little boy when star wars came out and it seemed like it was playing at my local cinema for years!) Some cinemas even changed movies twice a week meaning a massive turnover of films. The movie poster was therefore a vital tool for getting bums on seats and ensuring a film had as long a run as it possibly could. If people were in the cinema foyer and unsure whether to watch Scanners or Table for Five, a quick look at the respective movie posters would quickly make their minds up. And this brings me to my second point.

In earlier decades people rarely had a clue what they wanted to see when they went to the cinema. My father said he would go every Saturday and often during the week for the simple reason there was not much else to do in the evenings in a provincial town in those days. So he would go to the cinema for something to do and then make up his mind what film to watch later when he got there. Today, people already know which movie they are going to see before they go to the cinema. Why the change? Quite simply, the media. Media promotion of films is now dominated by the internet where we can easily view trailers, see and read film star interviews, making-of videos, and more. And the hype starts earlier. There is drip, drip, then a trickle, culminating in a tidal wave of media coverage when a film’s release is imminent. What chance has any other film got in the face of such a media deluge? And when the target demographic nowadays is predominantly the naive and gullible teeny market the film studios are rubbing their hands with glee. Who needs a crappy film poster to sell a film at the cinema? You don’t! It’s already been sold.

This leads me to another point – the changing demographic of cinema-goers. In earlier years there were many more adults going to the cinema than there are today and therefore many more adult oriented films, b movies and exploitation movies. This resulted in better subject matter for film posters (even though the films were often substandard). I think it would be very hard not to make a good poster for a b-movie if it was an exploitative nazisploitation movie like “Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS”!

Finally, and though it pains me to say it, films at the cinema today are generally of a much better quality than those in years gone by. Coupled with much more expansive media coverage, the movie poster’s importance as a tool to sell a movie is significantly reduced. As I have mentioned above, a much wider variety of films, in terms of both quality and subject matter, used to arrive at your local cinema – including b-movies. It was a kind of a scatter gun approach. A “Lets show as many films as possible and see what works” approach. And that meant there were a lot of crappy films about. This is where the movie poster becomes a vital promotional tool. If the film sounds interesting and the poster looks interesting, its got to be a good film right? Wrong! Just because the poster has had a bit of money spent on it, it does not necessarily follow the film did! But a good quality movie poster always gives that implication. Most films that arrive at movie theatres today are big budget studio affairs and always have high production values even if the film content still regularly falls badly short of good quality.

So how can movie posters be saved? Well, high quality movie posters are still being produced for new films if you care to look for them. For example, the new Darren Aronofsky film Black Swan has had a number of brilliant posters produced for it. But for every Black Swan there are scores of Toy Story 3′s. I think I have to conclude that the quality of a movie poster is just not important in the movie industry anymore. It just needs to be functional and unless the Internet suddenly explodes and the public abandon the cinema multiplex for independent art house cinemas (if they can find one), that’s the way it will remain.

There are a lot of sites over the Internet which sells various types of goods and services. There are some websites which sell specific items. On the other hand, there are also some sites which provide their customers with general products. As of the present times, there are already countless of sites which cater to the online shopping needs of a modern individual. But the most effective of these businesses are those which serve the wants of huge consumers. These consumers are those who visit the web almost everyday. To be exact, these buyers are those kids who are in their teens and early adulthood. One of the online businesses which cater to the likes of this consumer group is Movie Posters – selling products in line with music, celebrities, movies, sports, video games, and other areas that excite the new generation.

Movie Posters is an online site which offers movie posters, postcards, and magnets. However, its products do not end there. It also sells apparels. To be more exact, the site provides shirts and tops. Its tops include sweatshirts, hoodies, long sleeved shirts, dyed shirts, and tank tops. These items are made for both the men and the women. But if you are in your middle thirties and you want to buy one of these shirts, you have no reason to worry about not fitting into one. The T-shirts that Movie Posters offers also come in super-extra large sizes. This serves as an assurance to the special need of some buyers.

If you want to buy an apparel in line with entertainment, you have a lot of selections to choose from. First, there are celebrity T-shirts which are designed with the faces of famous celebrities. Among these celebrities are Bruce Lee, Che Guevara, Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn. Some of the shirts come with anime designs. The most popular are Naruto T-shirts, Bleach T-shirts, and Fruits Baskets T-shirts. Of course, there are also movie T-shirts which are among the most sought-after items. Some of these are Carrie shirts, Batman shirts, The Punisher shirts, and Borat shirts. Other entertainment T-shirts are sports, music, comics, video games, and television.

If you want to buy T-shirts or tank tops with designs other than music and celebrities, there are apparel items with fantasy, nature, travel, novelty, funny, and alcohol-&-drug designs. T-shirts under the fantasy subject have designs like piles of skulls glowing in the dark. Other designs include dragons and clowns. Most of the apparel which belong to the funny subject usually have funny caption designs. When you want a nature T-shirt, you will likely choose among animal and floral designs. On the other hand, novelty T-shirts appear like simple tuxedos, ruffled tuxedos, or designed with popular brand names.

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