collage poster design — Oversized title, bottom title, collage

A painted historical-drama movie poster of a swirling collage of gaunt nineteenth-century figures rising from smoke and fire. In the upper-right, a huge shadowed profile of a bearded adult man looms in near-black silhouette, only the edge of his nose and beard catching the light. At the upper-center, an adult man with a full beard and a wide-brimmed black hat looks down, his coat collar turned up against the smoke. In the upper-left corner, an adult man with a long rifle slung over his shoulder stares out from blue-grey smoke. Below him, an adult soldier in a dark cap gazes downward, half-dissolved in teal mist. On the mid-left edge, the lined face of an elderly bald adult man emerges from the haze. At the center-left, an adult man with wild curly hair in a heavy brown coat fixes the viewer with a hollow stare. Just right of center, an adult woman with long dark hair and a shawl looks directly at the viewer, her face lit warm by firelight. At the mid-right edge, the close-up muzzle and hammer of an antique flintlock pistol juts into the frame. Across the lower third, a line of uniformed soldiers in dark red coats and tall shakos stands around a fallen body in a burning village street. The soldiers' bayonets catch thin glints of orange light above their shoulders. Flames and orange smoke engulf ruined stone cottages on both sides of the soldiers. A wash of ember-red light floods the bottom of the frame, dissolving into dark smoke at the corners. Near the bottom center, a large distressed white uppercase title ("TITLE") with a rough weathered texture spans the width above the embers. The lighting is split between a cold teal-blue smoky gloom in the upper half and a roaring orange-red firelight from below, with harsh rim light carving the profiles out of the smoke. The composition stacks the floating faces in a smoky pyramid above the fiery tableau of soldiers and ruins at the base, in a palette of burnt orange, ember red, teal smoke and ash black, rendered in a gritty painterly realism with a mood of bleak vengeance and sorrow.