Make It Look Like Something Happens

When your movie isn't finished because your computer crashes (only) when you edit it or try to make copies, the best thing to do, I've found, is work on the poster design. And the best poster design, especially when your movie is in the film sleepy genre (movies that put the audience right to sleep), is something that looks like something is going on.

In the design above, I have every member of the cast, including a few I haven't put up here yet (excluding the voiceover people since they are not very visual). They aren't doing much, so something very active would be difficult to show, since they don't do much in the movie, either. But since there are so many of them, it gives the impression that a lot is going on at once. Which isn't the case when you watch the movie.

However, I have read of many examples where posters and trailers have little to do with the movie. Instead they portray anything the artists can think of that will get somebody, anybody, to buy a ticket or rent a DVD.

Notice that I also include the ecstatic review by Rory Knox Johnston, our bought and paid for movie critic.

While you'll have to come up with your own poster, feel free to adapt my principles for your film sleepy.