Comments on: Credit Where Credit Is Due

By: How to Create a Movie Poster Billing Block in Photoshop | INFICTUS - Digital Madness

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:19:30 +0000

[...] we get ready to place the text, head over to Posterwire.com to read more in-depth information about the billing block. It’s basically must-know [...]

By: Got Guns? « Posterwire.com « the movie poster weblog

Got Guns? « Posterwire.com « the movie poster weblog — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:24:54 +0000

[...] interesting feature of this one-sheet is the placement of the poster’s billing block. Rather than running the credits at the bottom, the Lord of War credit block is on a single line [...]

By: Randall

Randall — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:47:43 +0000

Thanks for the informative post about movie poster typefaces!

Just as a sidenote (since someone asked) I believe that the “DVD Video” logo and the MPAA ratings are all registered trademarks. They’re probably okay to use in a high school or other personal project, but any commercial use could subject one to civil liability.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:19:35 +0000

What is the reason for the credit block appearing at the bottom and centred on a film poster? Is it just an accepted convention of posters? Thanks

By: RJ

RJ — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:19:08 +0000

Thanks for the Steeltongs suggestion — its *perfect*!

By: christopher

christopher — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:40:44 +0000

jeff – wow! thanks for that tip about steeltongs. that’s ridiculously cool.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:31:30 +0000

Another good font is SF Movie Poster available also from dafonts.com

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:35:40 +0000

hey thomas, check out dafonts.com, the font titled steeltongs(free for download) has all the answers to your problems it automatically makes certain keys designated to say certain titles for people in a smaller size, just please try it and tell me it’s not perfect! I was having the exact same problem figuring out how to do that. check it out!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:01:08 +0000

What is a convenient way to quickly produce a billing block? Are there any programs specifically designed to do such a thing? It’s easy to make the first part of the billing block (just small caps) but once you get into the “Production Designer”, “Music Composed By,” etc., where two layers of text are laid on top of one another, it’s fairly time-consuming and difficult to get everything lined up correctly.

Anyone have any ideas? Just curious…

By: rachel

rachel — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:23:02 +0000

Alex, like the above person said “brandsoftheworld.com” might have the mpaa ratings.

Most things that are used in widespread publications are vector based files with a “eps” file extension.

Your best bet would be to google search mpaa vector file or something like that. :)