Photoviz Poster
Objective of this project was to communicate information in a visual way. Information design has become a niche of graphic design that I enjoy doing. I think synthesizing information in a graphical way can lead to some really cool outcomes.
For this project I took 100 movie posters and synthesized them together to create this work. My goal was to create a “heat map” of the most used layouts in movie posters. What designers put their titles on the top. Which ones used a headshot as opposed to a full body shot of
the actors.
The process for this one was simple on my part. I collected 100 movie posters. Sized them all the same and put them one by one in photoshop.
I think my computer did most of the heavy lifting this time because with all the movie posters it was starting to bog down my computer. The poster in the image is an earlier iteration.
This iteration was going to be my final. As much as it looks really cool it wasn’t hitting my intended purpose for the project. I wanted this poster to have all 100 movie posters layered over each other so that we could see the outliers and the averages.
I ended up going with this as my final iteration of the project. With the help of some image blending, I was able to bring out all the visual details in the movie posters and have them displayed as one big, beautiful, almost creepy poltergeisty poster.