A plea or a gripe-depends where you are
Mon, 13 Oct 2008, 11:50 amNorma26 posts in thread
A plea or a gripe-depends where you are
Mon, 13 Oct 2008, 11:50 amThis is a plea which may well sound inconsequential or not worth bothering about and may well bring down the wrath of God on my head but..........
To everyone who designs/makes-up/is responsible for Posters
Please. Please PLEASE include the year of production in your designs.
Now this may sound obvious/trite/not worth bothering about BUT I do assure you that in time to come when some poor soul is trying to make sense of the archives (which are usually in a mess when some brave person decides to get them in some kind of order) it saves much frustration and hair-pulling out.
And this is where I get myself into more trouble- the design is not as important as the basic information-WHAT-WHERE-WHEN-HOW MUCH-WHERE DO I GET TICKETS
OK off my soap-box
Missing the point
Mon, 13 Oct 2008, 12:09 pmI think the point is that many of these posters are archived or displayed in the foyers. For example, I was at the Melville theatre just this Friday gone and found a poster of a show I had done there several years back. This poster DID have the year on it which was useful.
I have often seen foyer displays such as this where years are not provided and I find myself thinking "When did they put that on?" and I am sure I am not the only one who does this.
Also for archival purposes, being able to tell the difference between two posters for the same play done in different years, would it not be handy to have the year included?
Having the year adds to the long-term usefulness of the poster.
Also, most if not all movie posters will have release dates on them, if only in the classic Roman Numeral standard. It's a part of the standard blurb that Official Movie posters use. You know, the bit about produced by, starring, etc.
Absit invidia (and DFT :nono:)
Jeff Watkins
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