vertical typography — Top Title / Bottom Title / Oversized Title

A neo-noir movie poster splits between stark stacked title type above and a ghostly double-exposure portrait below. Across the top, the placeholder "TITLE" stacks in three tiers: a small vertical cream word at the left edge, an oversized black condensed word dominating the middle, and a white serif line on a black band below. Below the type, the image shows an adult man in near-total silhouette, his profile facing left, a wisp of cigarette smoke curling upward. Superimposed over his dark profile, a second exposure reveals a pale ghostly face in three-quarter view, its features soft and blurred. The man wears a light-colored open shirt or jacket, its collar and folds barely emerging from the black. The double exposure blurs the boundary between the two faces, merging them into one haunted composite. Deep black fills most of the lower two-thirds, swallowing detail into velvet darkness. The pale face glows with an almost x-ray pallor, its eyes shadowed and indistinct. Smoke threads drift through the left side of the frame, catching faint light. The composition keeps the silhouette's head at the right, the ghost face leaning in from the left. Heavy grain covers the whole image, giving it a photocopied, underground texture. The ghost face's shirt buttons catch pinpricks of light down its front. No other figures, objects, or credits appear anywhere on the poster. The title type bleeds slightly into the black at its lower edge. The cream of the vertical word is the only warm tone in the upper block. The silhouette's ear and jawline trace a hard black edge against the gray haze. The ghost face's hair melts into the surrounding dark, its outline dissolving. A faint vignette darkens the extreme corners, pressing attention toward the faces. The lighting is stark and ghostly, a single dim source raking the ghost face from below while the silhouette's rim catches faint purple-gray spill, and darkness consumes the rest. Overall, the heavy type block presses down on the void-like portrait in a top-weighted design, the palette is bone-white and ash-gray against abyssal black, the style is gritty noir double-exposure, and the mood is paranoid and suffocating with narcotic haze.