There are many types of different film posters, they vary as time goes back as the older they get the more they seem to be hand drawn, alongside having a very classic realism effect.
As shown below the classic film poster for Casablanca seems more natural and not photo shopped it seems apparent that back then artists would draw the film posters for advertisement unlike film posters today that are all done on the computer.
Another example of a classical film poster: Same concept in this film poster it seems to be drawn by an artist which gives it a more realistic cartoon effect.
I think what makes classic film poster so effective is the differentiation in times to what the target audience is interested in now to the posters back then, in that era of time the audience must have shared the same opinion to the fist theatre posters which would just show the director and the name of the film. They are SO effective because they are basic and not what we in this era are used to. An example of a classical film that has developed over time is the famous worldwide hit 'King Kong' and i have different examples to show the difference from the film poster in the past to the film poster now, it shows the difference between how they have developed over time alongside showing a man made drawn poster and a computer edited photo shopped one of today.
I think what makes classic film poster so effective is the differentiation in times to what the target audience is interested in now to the posters back then, in that era of time the audience must have shared the same opinion to the fist theatre posters which would just show the director and the name of the film. They are SO effective because they are basic and not what we in this era are used to. An example of a classical film that has developed over time is the famous worldwide hit 'King Kong' and i have different examples to show the difference from the film poster in the past to the film poster now, it shows the difference between how they have developed over time alongside showing a man made drawn poster and a computer edited photo shopped one of today.
This is the first and oldest example of the king Kong film poster as you can see it is very basic does not have any of the characters in it just a drawing of the ape destroying the planes, this poster was drawn by an artist and no computers were used.
The second example as seen above is more recent as the colours changed more vibrant and graphically improved however it was still drawn by an artist.
Finally the most recent film poster for King Kong that was re-released in the 21st century, it is apparent that this has been photo shopped it is not hand drawn its all done by technical devices such as an expensive SLR camera and edited cropped coloured on a computer, its modern hence we live in a modern period where these luxuries are available back then they had to use what they had.
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