One of my favorite movies is No Country for Old Men. I love how this film is a modern western with really beautiful cinematography of the sweeping landscapes of West Texas. I created this film poster with that in mind. This film is adapted from the book by the same name and this poster came out feeling a lot like a book cover.

 

I used several images overlaid to create the background and grainy feel. There is a black and white image of the cowboy in the field. The background image of the mountains is in color but creates more depth with some very subtle hues. I’ve overlaid a $100 bill in the sky to represent the theme of greed and money. 

 

The last image I’ve overlaid is extremely subtle and is only at 3% opacity. It’s a skull since the film depicts a lot of death and destruction. You can see the top of the skull curve around the first 0 in 100 just on the left. This theme is also shown in the deep red of the text and other formatting elements.

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The tagline "You Can't Stop What's Coming" is shown on the right side of the poster in a lighter red as to create a better hierarchy and be more subtle from the other text.