collage poster design — Serif, Collage, Diagonal

A painted action movie poster in a 1970s pulp style, presenting a dense crime-scene collage framed within a thin golden-yellow border that floats against a flat black background. The background outside the framed panel is a solid, unbroken black that fills the top margin, the left and right edges, and the lower third of the poster. In the upper-left corner of the framed illustration, an adult woman with long brown hair wrapped in a patterned red headscarf wears a loose lavender-purple blouse and presses one hand against her chest, her face turned toward the right with a tense, worried expression. In the upper-right portion of the frame, a mustached adult man in his late thirties with dark shaggy hair wears a dark denim jacket over a white shirt and faded blue jeans, gripping a long rifle diagonally across his torso with both hands while looking directly at the viewer. Behind the two figures, loose smears of scarlet and vermilion suggest drifting smoke and fire. Along the left side of the frame, beneath the woman, two grim-faced adult men in tan-brown jackets aim silver revolvers toward the viewer. Near the lower-center of the frame, an adult man in a dark coat and flat cap fires a revolver, his body recoiling from the shot. To the right of him, an adult man in a dark purple shirt delivers a flying kick to a second adult man in a green shirt and brown trousers, whose tan cowboy hat sails off his head above him as his body bends backward. In the lower-left corner of the illustration, a pale blue sedan with a door hanging open stands beside a dark car wrapped in bright yellow-orange flames, with tiny painted figures crouching and running around the wreckage. In the lower-right portion of the frame, a mustard-yellow bus with dark lettering on its side stretches horizontally, small figures of adult men visible around its doors and windows, while a crumpled dark body lies motionless on the reddish-brown ground in front of it. Across the bottom of the poster, beneath the framed panel, large bold yellow slab-serif capital letters read "TITLE" enclosed in quotation marks, spanning nearly the full width against the black. The lighting is flat and poster-bright, with saturated painted highlights on the faces and clothing, a warm orange glow radiating from the central flames, and deep black shadows filling the outer margins to keep attention on the collage. The composition balances a symmetrical two-figure apex above a crowded lower action field, in a hot palette of crimson, amber, and mustard against deep black, in a pulpy 1970s painted style that feels loud, violent, and urgently dramatic.