collage poster design — Vertical Text, Centered, Collage

A surrealist collage movie poster centers on a stark photographic face against a plain off-white paper background, executed in a cut-and-paste style. In the center of the upper half, a large black-and-white photographic cutout shows the face of a balding adult man with dark hair at the sides, heavy-lidded eyes gazing directly at the viewer, and a stern unsmiling mouth. The high-contrast print emphasizes every line and pore of his skin, giving the face a severe documentary intensity. His eyebrows are heavy and straight, casting small shadows over the deep-set eyes. Directly behind the crown of his head, a black pocket comb stands upright with its fine teeth visible, resembling a strange rigid crown. In the upper-left corner, the blank cream paper stretches empty to the edges, isolating the face in quiet white space. In the upper-right corner, the same untouched paper continues, with only the faintest grain visible in the flat tone. Below the chin of the face, a cascade of fragmented black-and-white photographic cutouts tumbles downward through the middle of the frame. The falling pieces include a bare hand with spread fingers, a bare foot, a bent arm, a curved torso fragment, a single detached finger, and a knee, each rendered in the same stark monochrome. Each fragment casts a faint soft shadow on the paper, as if the pieces were glued on and are now slipping downward. The smallest fragments near the bottom edge look slightly softer, suggesting they lie a little farther from the picture plane. In the middle-left of the frame, the word "THE" appears in rough black hand-drawn capital letters with uneven, sketchy strokes. Down the right side of the poster, the word "TITLE" runs vertically in large rough black hand-drawn capitals, each letter tall, narrow, and slightly irregular. The hand-lettered strokes vary in weight, with visible texture from the drawing tool. The letters lean almost imperceptibly, as if drawn quickly by hand. In the bottom-left corner, the off-white paper remains completely blank, giving the lowest falling fragments room to drift. In the bottom-right corner, the same empty paper fills the space beneath the final hand-drawn letter. The lighting is flat and even like a scanned paper collage, with only the faintest soft shadows beneath the cutout edges to suggest layered paper, and no directional light source at all. Overall, the sparse centered composition balances the heavy photographic face above against the scattering fragments below, pairing a stark black-and-cream palette with a deadpan cut-and-paste collage style to project a mood of clinical, unsettling absurdity.