Page Index Toggle Pages: 1 Print
Normal Topic These pages aren't just thrown together, you know (Read 7,395 times)
diogenes
Platinum Member
*****
Offline


BA Member

Posts: 596
Joined: 20. Jul 2014
These pages aren't just thrown together, you know
17. Sep 2018 at 12:47
Print Post  
My rule is: if there is a nice poster for the film which has a good, prominent picture of the boy or boys in the movie, then I'll generally use that. Otherwise, I make my own profile image. I think I'm better at it now than when I started. A lot of them I'm not really very pleased about, but it's too much like hard work to replace them. However, some of them I'm actually rather proud of! Here are a few of the Profile images I've created which I think turned out quite well:

Most recent one - "La Carnada". Simple, split image, using the caps that Damien supplied (I monkeyed around with the lower image to brighten it a little).

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"100 Days Before the Command". I love this film! Made from screencaps from the movie, again I very much brightened the lower picture. I like the fact that they are all looking towards the viewer. The boy (in fact, an angel) seems to be either getting into bed or getting out of it, in a sparsely furnished bedroom...

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"It Couldn't Happen Here". Another film I love, even though everyone else hates it! Straightforward split image, using screencaps.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"The Silver Chair" This was me trying out something new. I found two images and then arranged them on a black background. The lettering was supposed to be silver, as in the Silver Chair of the title - but is a tad too dark, maybe.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Heart of the Country" - well, I thought I'd complete Christian Bale's page. I found some caps of the opening titles of this miniseries on a website (though no caps from the series itself - the website was only interested in the titles!). I 'restored' the richness of the colours it would have had on transmission (the screencap was clearly from an old VHS recording, slightly faded), and added the little pic of Bale from the series.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Tenderness of the Wolves". Two screencaps. The font and colour of lettering was chosen to suggest the 1920s with a touch of decadence. I really like this one!

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Sparrows". Rather nice screencap of Monty O'Grady.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Strıta" Oh, gosh, I'm so proud of this one. Perfect image from film suggestive of danger, and then, below the titles, an extraordinary Icelandic landscape from the film (which I tinted slightly on the top left to make an even more 'lowering' sky).

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Fauve" Screencap, with lettering designed to be roughly 'skin-coloured', to go with the boy's back, though I don't think I got it quite right! Still reasonably effective, though.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Crime School" - wonderful movie. Absurdly homoerotic - Hollywood knew what people wanted! I like the font I chose for this, italicised for added drama. Oh, and Bobby Jordan always looked lovely.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Dogwood" Well, the boy looks so cheerful, it had to be this image.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Just Add Water" My own poster image is far better than any of the official advertising - tsk! I love the old lady's face!

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Stig of the Dump", the original (and best) miniseries. Strange one, this. Now, I meant to make a banner with Stig on it, but once I created this as a preliminary, I thought it was such a pleasant, pastoral image, redolant of a lost England, that I decided to just stick with it. That's Grant Ashley Warnock as Barney, but you wouldn't know it, since he's looking away from us at the English countryside.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"When Every Day Was the Fourth of July" - which has a very anachronistic subplot element in it, making it quite unrealistic!

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Clockwise" That's Chip Sweeney as the Headmaster's son at the top, by the way. Handsome lad!

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Threads" My masterpiece! There's a scene where Ruth is walking through the rubble of the post-holocaust city and sees various characters, including this boy screaming for his mum. This is just a corner of a screencap, just as the boy is about to exit the frame, and the smoke momentarily clears to show his face. It reminds me of Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' - what could be more appropriate?

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"The Father Thing" Good action shot in near-darkness, suggestive of flight and danger.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"The Cull" Yes, this worked well, The top picture is designed to convey the bleakness of the setting. The boy is just visible in the dim light of the lamp in the lower picture.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Nits" Jonathan Mason's first film. Quite proud of this composition.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

Continued in part 2..
  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
diogenes
Platinum Member
*****
Offline


BA Member

Posts: 596
Joined: 20. Jul 2014
Re: These pages aren't just thrown together, you know
Reply #1 - 17. Sep 2018 at 13:18
Print Post  
part 2...

"Death and Transfiguration". You see, at the top the flames are from a hearth, with the boy asleep in front. Below, the flames are from a cremation. Hence the suggestion that the idyll of boyhood contains the seeds of death and destruction. My own version of "Et in Arcadia ego"...

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Children" I think this same image was used in some of the advertising, which isn't surprising.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Grandpa's great Escape" Unfortunately, I couldn't find the images online to get the width of this banner right - it's too narrow. Nevertheless, I think I made a pretty good composition.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Fourth and Orchard" Somehow, this came out quite well.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Love and Death" The darkness of this image (from a screencap) suited the mood of the film.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"The Wilderness" The film is nonsense, but the banner's not bad!

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Hue and Cry" I like the boy emerging from the rubble in the lower picture. In the days before Health and Safety, and before constant parental surveillance, the bombed-out London of the late-40s was a boys' playground.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"I, Claudius" I had to get the snake in! "I, Claudius" is not "I, Claudius" without the snake!

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"Amarcord" Subliminal (?) suggestion comparing Mussolini to a donkey (which is a bit of an insult to donkeys, but never mind).

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"The Yankee Clipper" This is a great shot of Junior Coghlan.

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

"How Olin Lost His Eye" - Oh dear! You just know that this is not going to end well!

(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)


.................................

As always, please don't hesitate to make suggestions as to additions to the database - I shall be happy to oblige! (Otherwise, I shall just make pages for whatever I happen to be viewing, which means that you'll all have to put up with my Dickens obsession!)
  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
Cinefan
Platinum Member
*****
Offline


BA Member

Posts: 1,116
Location: Britain
Joined: 19. Nov 2009
Gender: Male
Re: These pages aren't just thrown together, you know
Reply #2 - 21. Sep 2018 at 20:36
Print Post  
I am gobsmacked. My ghast is flabbered. These are very well done indeed though many of the films I've never heard of. Many thanks, 'diogenes', for all the time and work you must have put in to these banners.
  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
diogenes
Platinum Member
*****
Offline


BA Member

Posts: 596
Joined: 20. Jul 2014
Re: These pages aren't just thrown together, you know
Reply #3 - 22. Sep 2018 at 12:39
Print Post  
Thanks!  Smiley I enjoy doing it.
« Last Edit: 22. Sep 2018 at 16:29 by diogenes »  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
JefriNTheDeep
Member
*
Offline


BA Member

Posts: 22
Joined: 06. Oct 2017
Re: These pages aren't just thrown together, you know
Reply #4 - 01. Oct 2018 at 02:45
Print Post  
Superb work! I am sure that you have dedicated a lot of time and effort creating these lovely works of art.

I am new here and have yet to contribute. But I know that it takes a lot of hard work to maintain and grow this precious resource.

Thank you very much for your efforts and for sharing your talent and eye for beauty. You seem to be able to find the perfect image that is at the center of every quality Boy-Centric film.

  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
diogenes
Platinum Member
*****
Offline


BA Member

Posts: 596
Joined: 20. Jul 2014
Re: These pages aren't just thrown together, you know
Reply #5 - 01. Oct 2018 at 12:02
Print Post  
Well, thank you! You are a gentleman, sir! Smiley
  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Print