Saul Bass Film Posters

Along with my Short Film, I am also going to have to create a film poster to go with the final film. In my initial research, I have found that Saul Bass is probably one of the most famous film poster designer.
Bass' work has already revealed one important element of the film poster to me - they need to be minimalistic. Simplistic.

 Color is sparse but used boldly in application.

The text and imagery itself was often treated similarly to a logo or a symbol: strong, simple, memorable, metaphorical, and easily applied to any number of other graphic applications. 















All of the images on the poster are centralised and there is a common trend that the images are silhouette. Against the bold colors the blacked out figures stand out. This draws attention to what the figure is doing - giving the viewer subtle hints as to what the film may be out.

Sources: 

http://www.film.com/photos/every-saul-bass-movie-poster-gallery