View Full Version : Design Silent Hill's Movie Poster (ATTN: onetrackmind)
javeryh
12-06-2005, 12:00 PM
$2,500 to the winner!
Everything that's been said so far about currently-in-post-production Silent Hill film from director Christophe Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf) indicates the filmmakers understand what makes the game tick with fans, and a new contest inviting people to design a Silent Hill movie poster is a solid indication the promotional team wants to work with the anxious gamers, too.
The full contest details are available at www.welcometosilenthill.com (http://www.welcometosilenthill.com/), but here's what you need to know: design a poster in JPG or GIF format no larger than 300K using assets provided on the website itself (art from the games are off limits) and submit it by January 3. Staring the next day, the website will start tallying votes for best poster design. If yours happens to make the final cut, the design "may be printed and may be distributed to theaters," which allows TriStar Pictures to back out if all the submitted designs end up sucking the big one. Even if you don't end up printed nationally, though, you'll still score $2,500 cash, 25 passes to see the movie and some other unannounced prizes. I'll take the $2,500, thanks.
See: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3146060
Reality's Fringe
12-06-2005, 12:16 PM
Using only art from the site is both weak and a good idea from a creative standpoint. It makes people focus less on trying to photoshop eye-candy and come up with something marketable. I could use an extra 2500....
TurkeyOnRye
12-06-2005, 12:21 PM
No kidding.... definitely interested....
the3rdkey
12-06-2005, 12:24 PM
Here is the official movie site:
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/
onetrackmind
12-06-2005, 12:24 PM
Hey Now! I definetly gotta do this...thanks for thinking of me buddy :)
wow i checked this out and all the images and titles they gave you made me all excited like.... Im definately going to do this... The list of limitations is wild:
No nudity or sexual activity
No gun to camera/no shooting to camera
No gun to victim/no shooting to victim
No more than 2 guns may appear
No reference to drugs/drug paraphernalia
No offensive language or gestures
No blood
No violence towards women
No cruelty to animals
No mutations/mutilations/cadavers
No excessive violence or brutality
No rape/molestations
No people on fire
No people in explosion/people blown out of explosion
No exploiting/capitalizing on rating (i.e., "R has never gone this far", "Banned in Boston")
No demeaning of religion, race or national origin
Supercake
12-06-2005, 01:21 PM
No nudity or sexual activity
No gun to victim/no shooting to victim
No reference to drugs/drug paraphernalia
No offensive language or gestures
No blood
No violence towards women
No cruelty to animals
No mutations/mutilations/cadavers
No excessive violence or brutality
No rape/molestations
No people on fire
No demeaning of religion, race or national origin
Hopefully these are at least covered in the movie, otherwise it wouldn't be Silent Hill! ;)
danny-o
12-06-2005, 01:34 PM
So I guerss nazis raping women while shooting at the camera while beating babies and making secret bio monsters and feeding them bunnies is out of the question.
Strell
12-06-2005, 01:54 PM
So I guerss nazis raping women while shooting at the camera while beating babies and making secret bio monsters and feeding them bunnies is out of the question.
Only if the bunnies are on fire as well.
Well i have made 4 of them... I have to narrow it down to one...
I wish i could submit two or so... :cry:
onetrackmind
12-06-2005, 04:25 PM
Well i have made 4 of them... I have to narrow it down to one...
I wish i could submit two or so... :cry:
you should post them up and get some feedback from some cag members
javeryh
12-06-2005, 04:33 PM
you should post them up and get some feedback from some cag members
We should have contest here or something among CAGs and then the winner here submits to the contest where all of CAG can vote for it and get one of us $2,500...
onetrackmind
12-06-2005, 04:42 PM
We should have contest here or something among CAGs and then the winner here submits to the contest where all of CAG can vote for it and get one of us $2,500...
that would be an awesome idea. i know theres a ton of really talented photoshop people around here.
munch
12-06-2005, 05:30 PM
If you've made them, post 'em. Since i am in no way artistically inclined, I really want to see what you all are doing.
I talked with Onetrackmind and Javeryh and it seems that there is no way to post it on the public forum without the issue of someone taking the item and submitting it as there own. Now im not saying that any of you guys on the forum would, but the 35K other registered cag'ers who don’t post and just read, well its to much of a risk.
I think that it should be universally decided upon that on 1/3/06 after the submission deadline is over, that we can post them up and get the consensus from you all. Now artists, if you want feedback feel free to share them with people you trust and work "behind the scenes" if you will.
Hope everyone understands.
Apossum
12-06-2005, 06:09 PM
Me and OTM collaborated on this one, what do you guys think? no one steal it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Apossum/apossumssig9joHill.jpg
javeryh
12-06-2005, 06:12 PM
Me and OTM collaborated on this one, what do you guys think? no one steal it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Apossum/apossumssig9joHill.jpg
Awesome! :rofl:
onetrackmind
01-05-2006, 09:41 AM
Well my poster didn't make the cut i guess since i didnt recieve a confirmation email yesterday. Hopefully Lice got in.
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/306/poster2yj.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Fuck. I wish I'd have had time to enter.
How many were they going to put up for the vote? (Too lazy to check myself.)
javeryh
01-05-2006, 02:27 PM
Well my poster didn't make the cut i guess since i didnt recieve a confirmation email yesterday. Hopefully Lice got in.
You did a really nice job anyway. I like the minimalist yet still creepy approach you took. WTF were they looking for?
onetrackmind
01-05-2006, 02:41 PM
You did a really nice job anyway. I like the minimalist yet still creepy approach you took. WTF were they looking for?
thanks that was the approach i wanted to take. I wanted to keep it simple and i picked the best picture i could find even though i did a lot of work to the image. Heres the original i worked from.
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4206/sh070d600823bs.th.jpg (http://img337.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sh070d600823bs.jpg)
Wait until you see Lice's... his was way better than mine.
As for what they were wanted... beats the hell out of me.
Snake2715
01-05-2006, 02:51 PM
Wow I do want to see Lice's and OTM that was a nice job there...
Obviously you have a small fanbase... to bad it didnt work out for you I know where my vote would have been.
onetrackmind
01-05-2006, 02:54 PM
Wow I do want to see Lice's and OTM that was a nice job there...
Obviously you have a small fanbase... to bad it didnt work out for you I know where my vote would have been.
thanks bro, as always i appreciate it!
Apossum
01-05-2006, 03:06 PM
that's good stuff OTM!
guardian_owl
01-07-2006, 02:23 AM
So, any others get accepted?
Pancake Rabbit
01-07-2006, 02:40 AM
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68/gioseph/silenthill.jpg I got accepted
guardian_owl
01-07-2006, 03:00 AM
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68/gioseph/silenthill.jpg I got accepted
Change that flashlight to Pac-man and you've got a great Pac-Man: The Movie poster.
1SwtDeception
01-07-2006, 03:04 AM
Don't movies usually look for a black background kind of poster? But great job on the poster OTM, hopefully there will be some more design-my-movie-poster-contest.
guardian_owl
01-07-2006, 03:06 AM
Don't movies usually look for a black background kind of poster? But great job on the poster OTM, hopefully there will be some more design-my-movie-poster-contest.
Not always
http://www.cinema-extreme.com/pics/nieuws/saw_poster2.jpg
Pancake Rabbit
01-07-2006, 03:09 AM
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68/gioseph/pacman.jpg
guardian_owl
01-07-2006, 03:13 AM
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68/gioseph/pacman.jpg
Brillant!
onetrackmind
01-07-2006, 09:21 AM
well i was wrong... i got an email this morning. They said they recieved so many submissions its taking them longer than expected to get through them.
VOTE FOR MY POSTER! (http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/postercontest/vote/vote_popup.php?imgId=985)
pimpinc333
01-07-2006, 09:48 AM
well i was wrong... i got an email this morning. They said they recieved so many submissions its taking them longer than expected to get through them.
VOTE FOR MY POSTER! (http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/postercontest/vote/vote_popup.php?imgId=985)
Voted OTM! Everyone Vote For OTM! That shit is tight bro.
Hey i made it in too... VOTE FOR MINE....
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/postercontest/vote/vote_popup.php?imgId=652 (http://news.sonypictures.com/rspba/r2.php?b=131&193495/47071361/193497/H/http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Esonypictures%2Ecom%2Fmovies%2Fs ilenthill%2Fpostercontest%2Fvote%2Fvote%5Fpopup%2E php%3FimgId%3D652)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/licemasta/CAG/SH.jpg
Looks like they must have taken pretty much anything that didn't violate the rules? (Just judging by the very high id numbers of Lice and OTM's submissons. Hopefully we can get a few CAGers past the popularity piece of the contest and into the finals. Kind of cop out on Sony's part, but whatever.
I have been going through them one by one and its amazing how many of them are the EXACT same concept and lay out. AMazing... kind of creepy actaully... but if you think of how many of the pictures where usable and of a decent image it makes sense to why they look similar....
edit ( ALot of the iamges are empty. As in 1 through 30 or so... so theres probably around 500 total...)
TurkeyOnRye
01-07-2006, 07:49 PM
They're both good... I don't know which one to pick...
rabbitt
01-07-2006, 10:40 PM
I sigged both of you guys. It looks like you can vote once a day. Perhaps Cheapy wouldn't mind advertising this in the next CAGcast to get the votes in.
They're both good... I don't know which one to pick...
Well you can vote once a day so switch off every other day....
Try to get us both to the finals... that would be quite an acheivment.... anyways thanks to all that has voted and those that might ;)
TimPV3
01-08-2006, 04:50 AM
I voted for OTM's because his thread was on the front page, but tomorrow's vote is going to you Lice.
FaintDeftone
01-09-2006, 12:38 AM
I voted for OTM's poster, though Lice's is very nice too.
whoknows
01-09-2006, 12:58 AM
well i was wrong... i got an email this morning. They said they recieved so many submissions its taking them longer than expected to get through them.
VOTE FOR MY POSTER! (http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/postercontest/vote/vote_popup.php?imgId=985)
Voted for you, of course :D
Well i know you all voted for OTM and he will benifiti greatly from it....
But being tonight is the last night... I ask any of you to spare some votes for a fellow cag. Any more votes i can get would be great... and get atleast two cags into the finals....
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/postercontest/vote/vote_popup.php?imgId=652
Thanks all who have taken the time..... :bouncy: