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poster headline design — Oversized title, title across the bottom with small tagline

L0785 · poster headline design — Oversized title, title across the bottom with small tagline. Explore the reference image and prompt, then open this composition in the layout tool.

L0785 · Oversized title, title across the bottom with small tagline

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L0785

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A war-drama movie poster in warm sepia and amber tones, showing two enormous male faces filling the upper two-thirds of the frame against a black background. On the left side of the frame, an adult man in his late twenties with short dark hair and light stubble stares directly at the viewer, his brown eye catching a golden highlight. His expression is calm and resolute, his jaw shadowed with several days of unshaven stubble. In the upper-right quadrant, a middle-aged man in a dark military cap overlaps the left man's face, his weathered gaze fixed off to the right. A small star emblem is visible on the middle-aged man's cap, just above the brim. The middle-aged man's skin is deeply creased around the eyes, and his mouth is set in a grim, determined line. Along the right edge of the poster, a bolt-action rifle stands vertically, its wooden stock and metal bolt rendered in fine detail. In the lower-middle of the frame, a thin red sniper reticle overlays the scene: crosshairs with a circle at the center. Inside the reticle's circle, a small silhouette of a crouching adult soldier holding a rifle appears, surrounded by drifting smoke. Behind the reticle, ruined buildings with shattered windows glow in the amber light of a burning city. Small plumes of smoke rise through the amber glow behind the reticle, half-obscuring the ruined skyline. At the bottom of the image, the foreground is a dark rubble-strewn landscape, almost black, anchoring the composition. Across the lower third, a dark red rectangular title plaque with a thin gold border holds a large gold serif title ("TITLE"), with a smaller subtitle ("TAGLINE") nested between its words. The gold letters have a metallic sheen, catching light along their upper edges. In the upper-left corner, the black background is unbroken, drawing all attention to the two faces. The lighting is warm and theatrical, as if from a low burning fire: golden-amber light washes upward across both faces, modeling the cheekbones and brows while the edges of the frame fall into darkness. Fine film grain textures the entire poster, giving the faces a printed, period quality. The left man's ear and hairline dissolve into the blackness on the far left, while the cap brim casts a shadow over the middle-aged man's brow. The color relationship is dominated by burnt amber, dark umber, and pitch black, with the thin red reticle and the gold title as the only sharp color accents. The composition balances two monumental faces above against one tiny silhouetted soldier below, a stark contrast of scale that reads as one man watched and one man watching, in a palette of burnt amber, gold, and deep black with monumental wartime gravity.