Saul Bass's Movie Posters

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  • @TheRoyalOceanFilmSociety
    @TheRoyalOceanFilmSociety  5 лет назад +72

    Which one is your favorite Saul Bass poster?

    • @AgsmaJustAgsma
      @AgsmaJustAgsma 5 лет назад +4

      Hard to pick a definite favorite, myself, but if I had to pick a single one it would probably be Saul Bass' unused poster for Schindler's List, the last one he's ever done.

    • @ThatXavier
      @ThatXavier 5 лет назад +4

      Favorite Saul Bass Poster: The Two Of Us
      Favorite Saul Bass Title Sequence: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

    • @AndyGattis
      @AndyGattis 5 лет назад +5

      which ONE?!

    • @levmyshkin8366
      @levmyshkin8366 5 лет назад +1

      My favourite is the Tonko (The Silk Road) poster. The shape is like a scroll, not a usual poster, and shows a great balance of detail with his iconic style. Thanks for the video!

    • @joelwhite2361
      @joelwhite2361 5 лет назад +1

      Vertigo. B/c it is the only one I've actually seen. Also, I went to the Paramount in Austin to see Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 35mm. A really great movie at a really great venue. Going to try to make it for the 70mm screening of 2001 later this summer.

  • @fab.devon.comics
    @fab.devon.comics 5 лет назад +558

    Portrait video about posters. You crazy bastard. Love it.

    • @gramajomd
      @gramajomd 5 лет назад +3

      This is fucking amazing

  • @HylianKilljoy
    @HylianKilljoy 5 лет назад +706

    This is the best use of the mobile phone aspect ratio that I've ever seen on a RUclips video! I've never seen someone use this aspect ration in a creative way that actually matches the topic of the video.

    • @seangalvin5922
      @seangalvin5922 5 лет назад +4

      Nerdwriter did it lately

    • @prodevus
      @prodevus 5 лет назад +2

      Came down here to comment the same thing (not the nerdwriter thing)

    • @vvrrva
      @vvrrva 5 лет назад +1

      you should check out a short film titled "The Dispute" by illegalciv it's use of portrait aspect ratio is really cool!

    • @patrikpolach7913
      @patrikpolach7913 3 года назад

      Another great example is Jamie Windsor's video 'The INSTAGRAM PROBLEM for PHOTOGRAPHERS':
      ruclips.net/video/Gu0zEniLKrs/видео.html

  • @EntertainTheElk
    @EntertainTheElk 5 лет назад +187

    Such a great idea to have this as a poster ratio. Looks great on my phone!

  • @marathonman2050
    @marathonman2050 5 лет назад +145

    I can see your video editing style and use of minimalist images were heavily influenced by Saul Bass. Great Job, man

  • @PogieJoe
    @PogieJoe 5 лет назад +41

    By pure coincidence I decided to watch this on my phone whereas I typically don't. What a treat!

  • @jackierosas9593
    @jackierosas9593 5 лет назад +22

    The Vertigo poster is glorious. It's so simple and violent.
    The man grabbing the woman as she runs away.
    Yet, it could also be looked at as him trying to save her from falling as she is off-kilter.
    The swirl, which illustrates the disorientation associated with vertigo within the film, also looks like Madeleine and Carlotta's hair bun. It also centers the characters.
    The man is the only figure in black, solid and central, while the woman is a mere outline, she takes on whatever color is in the background, sort of how Scotty really doesn't see Judy for who she is but what he can make her become which is Madeleine, the object of his obsession. She is an outline that he colors in with hair dye and clothes to make Judy into Madeleine once more.
    Actually, when you look at the poster from a distance, you can't see the woman anymore, all that is left is a man crouching, caught in the tide of the spiraling circle, which could be used to show how in the end Scotty does end up alone, captured by the truth that his obsession brought him to.
    God, I love this poster.

  • @ronan4413
    @ronan4413 4 года назад +15

    Really loved how you described the posters, "Feeling like Jazz". I've never used that phrase before but I love it and look for movies that give off that same feeling.

    • @TomCat05t
      @TomCat05t 2 года назад

      ...but unlike jazz, which relies on improvisation, Bass' posters were the result dozens of drafts to reach the final image.

    • @Moodboard39
      @Moodboard39 8 месяцев назад

      Old fashioned

  • @maxresdefault_
    @maxresdefault_ 5 лет назад +33

    A very interesting watch, and the aspect ratio is especially striking on mobile

  • @EverythingInFrame
    @EverythingInFrame 3 года назад +3

    Your editing is impeccable. The way you captured Bass's essence and even effectively used his style in transitions and text in this video is very admirable. Great work as always!

  • @Thron2111
    @Thron2111 5 лет назад +6

    The Thing Poster is just the best
    Horror movie posters are just the best
    movie posters without photos (old movie posters) are just the best

  • @dudezillasf
    @dudezillasf 5 лет назад +10

    I love the editing and design flourishes in your essays... Great work!

  • @NateandNoahTryLife
    @NateandNoahTryLife 5 лет назад +20

    “I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares”

    • @Moodboard39
      @Moodboard39 8 месяцев назад

      Non artist wouldn't ...or creative people

  • @NateandNoahTryLife
    @NateandNoahTryLife 5 лет назад +4

    I actually have 4 Saul Bass posters in my living room! Great video, vertical actually makes sense for his subject matter.

  • @pimeto
    @pimeto 5 лет назад +7

    Watching this with RUclips dark theme was a pleasure! Well designer and executed job you did here, mate! Keep it up!

  • @breannaw7254
    @breannaw7254 5 лет назад +5

    Watching this on mobile is *chefs kiss*

  • @DANAMIONLINE
    @DANAMIONLINE 5 лет назад +3

    Great video. Creating movies posters that symbolize and summarize the film’s theme or ideas is another step toward extending the story across different mediums.

  • @Andi_Thy_Is
    @Andi_Thy_Is 2 месяца назад

    I'd consider myself a fan of Bass's work but I had NEVER seen that Magnificent 7 poster before and it's incredible.
    Also this is such a unique aspect ratio for a video and it really carries with the subject matter, this is so well made and enjoyable.

  • @Frankfanja
    @Frankfanja 5 лет назад +3

    I love how this is in a vertical form

  • @shroomkingdom8152
    @shroomkingdom8152 5 лет назад

    Love Saul Bass and love what you did with the vertical video.

  • @basedbattledroid3507
    @basedbattledroid3507 5 лет назад +5

    I think you did a pretty decent job emulating his style in the graphics.

  • @juanaolg
    @juanaolg 2 года назад

    i always come back to this video, it truly is one of the coolest things on youtube

  • @MackenzieDavenport
    @MackenzieDavenport 5 лет назад

    Been waiting for this video from you forever.

  • @talkingdeads
    @talkingdeads 5 лет назад +2

    holy shit, I never knew Bass made the shining poster! now I know why I liked it so much

  • @SebastianTinajero
    @SebastianTinajero 5 лет назад

    I’m so happy channels like yours exist

  • @levmyshkin8366
    @levmyshkin8366 5 лет назад +3

    This video was great, I’d love to see a similar video on Polish Posters, they are world famous among designers but the history and style is unknown to many.

  • @NateandNoahTryLife
    @NateandNoahTryLife 5 лет назад +1

    I love the such good friends poster! It hangs in my room even though I’ve never seen it.

  • @igloocookie
    @igloocookie 5 лет назад +1

    Love your videos. Excellent analysis of Saul Bass.

  • @matamoney
    @matamoney 5 лет назад

    the most satisfying vertical video i've seen in a long time, maybe ever

  • @softpretzelclub
    @softpretzelclub 5 лет назад

    the animation is done so well in this video!

  • @flowerfairies4685
    @flowerfairies4685 5 лет назад

    your editing ..... it......s truly wonderful

  • @wetsber
    @wetsber 5 лет назад

    Never thought i'd fall in love with the look of a vertical video

  • @scifience8297
    @scifience8297 5 лет назад +22

    Please do a video on Stanley Kubrick´s frequent use of slow motion

    • @popflicktionedits3256
      @popflicktionedits3256 3 года назад +1

      What is there to say? He uses slow motion and he uses it well, hard to stretch that out into a video

  • @AlfredAmeneyro21
    @AlfredAmeneyro21 5 лет назад +4

    You. Bloody. Genius. Loved how you played with the aspect ratio for this one, just perfect.

  • @grahamlovesmovies
    @grahamlovesmovies 5 лет назад +1

    Thanks for the video. It's really inspiring to see someone create a video essay on a subject they know nothing about. Who needs research when you can regurgitate opinions about posters from movies you've never seen?

  • @flowerfairies4685
    @flowerfairies4685 5 лет назад

    YOUR VIDEOS ARE EVERYTHING!!!

  • @TheGabe473
    @TheGabe473 5 лет назад

    Loved this so much!!!

  • @timurabakarov
    @timurabakarov 5 лет назад +1

    one of my favourites channels

  • @willmulligan3896
    @willmulligan3896 5 лет назад +6

    The poster for Django Unchained seems reminiscent of Saul Bass' posters

  • @Cinesthetic
    @Cinesthetic 3 года назад

    There has been a great collection on display in the Stanley Kubrick exhibition that was on tour the past couple of years of Bass's storyboard art from Spartacus- Brilliant.

  • @benrositan2279
    @benrositan2279 5 лет назад

    This wonderful man thank you

  • @paulgastelum2143
    @paulgastelum2143 5 лет назад

    this is one of the greatest videos ive ever seen

  • @jaredkunish
    @jaredkunish 5 лет назад +1

    I love how you made the video fit the phone of the screen! Very appropriate given the subject and also very unique, great video man

  • @FloraWest
    @FloraWest 5 лет назад +5

    I knew about his film work but had no idea he'd done all those iconic logos.

  • @edwardevjen4741
    @edwardevjen4741 5 лет назад +2

    .This is kinda fun to watch, I have a second screen that is set vertical. I had a take wondering why full screen filled my entire screen.

  • @jeronimobalcarcel4613
    @jeronimobalcarcel4613 5 лет назад

    Another magnificent video.

  • @smalltalk.productions9977
    @smalltalk.productions9977 5 лет назад

    thanks for the effort and the sharing. i am an appreciative subscriber. thumbs up.

  • @pavelns
    @pavelns 5 лет назад +9

    omg the video is vertical i just noticed while scrolling, thats brilliant!

    • @gramajomd
      @gramajomd 5 лет назад +1

      Holy shit, I realized like almost at the end, fucking amazing

  • @drhall343
    @drhall343 5 лет назад +17

    This dude must've loved Rothko.

  • @samwallaceart288
    @samwallaceart288 5 лет назад

    Ok. People seriously need to make more videos in vertical. Vertical fullscreen is my new obsession.

  • @JoinHolmes
    @JoinHolmes 5 лет назад

    One of your best

  • @veetihautanen7142
    @veetihautanen7142 5 лет назад

    Didn't even notice the aspect ratio of the video until the very end!

  • @sethleoric2598
    @sethleoric2598 5 лет назад

    These look pretty good

  • @jjonestowne
    @jjonestowne 5 лет назад

    My hero. Brilliant. Genius. Love.

  • @futbol121711
    @futbol121711 5 лет назад

    Spectacular video

  • @jonathanday2509
    @jonathanday2509 5 лет назад

    This video was like holding a poster!

  • @chickenmcnugget4904
    @chickenmcnugget4904 5 лет назад

    Such a unic and simple way to make a video about posters using this video format. I love it

  • @andrewrrhemperly
    @andrewrrhemperly 5 лет назад

    Wow, this was great

  • @TheJayman213
    @TheJayman213 3 года назад

    "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."

  • @eti401
    @eti401 5 лет назад +2

    I will marry the first person who buys me an original Saul Bass poster

    • @gramajomd
      @gramajomd 5 лет назад

      Well, you look handsome

  • @tae523
    @tae523 5 лет назад +1

    He also directed the masterpiece Phase IV

  • @KHQMaster
    @KHQMaster 5 лет назад +3

    I'd love it if you did a piece on Satoshi Kon!

    • @hoganholo99
      @hoganholo99 5 лет назад

      Yeah, even with a video from Every Frame A Painting, he's still vastly underappreciated.

  • @AauroraPictures
    @AauroraPictures 5 лет назад

    youre so good dawg. Wow

  • @EmaPoppy
    @EmaPoppy 5 лет назад

    Such a cool and visually different video. I love the aspect ratio. Great job!!

  • @asphaltandtacos
    @asphaltandtacos 3 года назад

    I am definitely drawn to the minimalist approach and fonts which are difficult to identify. Any suggestions on the fonts he used?

  • @TJ_Mc
    @TJ_Mc 5 лет назад +1

    You played me, hombre. I watched the whole vid in landscape, then had to rewatch once I realized I'd been gamed. Like close-up magic, this is art. Good one.

  • @lamecasuelas2
    @lamecasuelas2 5 лет назад

    That Bunny Lake Is missing is a sicks postee, and a very good movie by the way

  • @BertieFett
    @BertieFett 5 лет назад +1

    Great video. Saul Bass was always the daddy

  • @benjaminhertzog5951
    @benjaminhertzog5951 3 года назад

    Some of Saul Bass’ artistic visions remind me of the opening credit scene of Monsters Inc.

  • @TheMadAfrican1
    @TheMadAfrican1 Год назад

    I genuinely can't remember when I saw a good movie poster. Most these days SUUUUUUUUCCCK.

  • @henryburby6077
    @henryburby6077 5 лет назад

    This is fucking GREAT!!

  • @turtleboy1188
    @turtleboy1188 5 лет назад

    The framing is interesting

  • @edwardsholty7959
    @edwardsholty7959 4 года назад

    Saul Bass also designed the titles and credits to many of the movies that he created poster for. Usually the same design elements were in both. Can you show the titles and credits?

  • @snoot6629
    @snoot6629 5 лет назад

    now i know why vertigo's poster is cool as hell

  • @frankiewoodhouse2914
    @frankiewoodhouse2914 5 лет назад

    MASTER

  • @DanteToska
    @DanteToska 5 лет назад

    What's the movie shown at 7:17 ?

  • @nathanielhernandez8843
    @nathanielhernandez8843 5 лет назад

    You fucking bastard, this is glorious

  • @snilrach
    @snilrach 5 лет назад

    I should be watching this on my phone.

  • @CherrySkinAnimal
    @CherrySkinAnimal 5 лет назад

    Funny you compare Saul Bass' approach to jazz as one of his clear influences was Henri Matisse whose arguable masterpiece was a book of posters entitled - Jazz!

  • @samwallaceart288
    @samwallaceart288 5 лет назад

    Saul Bass. So that’s the name of the guy that I keep thinking modern posters need to emulate more often. Romantic movie poster tradition is once again rearing its giant floating head.

  • @priyadarshh
    @priyadarshh 5 лет назад +2

    Ah! The aspect ratio. Like a poster to my eyes. 👌

  • @suburbanlife4377
    @suburbanlife4377 5 лет назад +2

    Why did you take down the “beauty of the summer blockbuster” video and then put it back up after a while? It was kind of a long time ago that you did it but I just don’t know why

    • @burgesssam
      @burgesssam 5 лет назад

      he put it back up? I've been looking for that video for a while, i love it.

  • @seanperman2000
    @seanperman2000 5 лет назад

    I was like why the fuck is that aspect ratio like this... then I was like, o ya that makes sense

  • @bigfootlil
    @bigfootlil 3 года назад

    Really youtube, an ad 1 minute in, half way through a sentence?

  • @nicolle2126
    @nicolle2126 5 лет назад

    love how u made this in portrait wow

  • @experi-mentalproductions5358
    @experi-mentalproductions5358 Год назад +1

    Why did you delete the other video on posters?

    • @Moodboard39
      @Moodboard39 8 месяцев назад

      Not a art world but movie ....

  • @aaronahlfeldt2916
    @aaronahlfeldt2916 5 лет назад

    What Microphone do you use

  • @josremery
    @josremery 5 лет назад

    Interesting choice to post this in poster format ( ;

  • @maxmagnus777
    @maxmagnus777 2 месяца назад

    you have "Freakonomics" voice

  • @aarshkapasi6630
    @aarshkapasi6630 5 лет назад

    ♥️♥️

  • @rams6702
    @rams6702 5 лет назад

    gotta love the ol' youtube aspect ratio thingy

  • @rodrigonarvaez398
    @rodrigonarvaez398 5 лет назад

    How can you talk about what the design represents and evokes of a film when you have not seen the film? I understand that these posters are unique design pieces and can be analysed as such, but they are inevitably linked to a story.

  • @mjaada
    @mjaada 5 лет назад

    Myyyyyybiii

  • @cameronjones7747
    @cameronjones7747 4 года назад

    Saul Bass’ voice sounds so much like Bernie Sanders.

  • @halimghani
    @halimghani 5 лет назад +2

    I love floating heads.

  • @UltimateKyuubiFox
    @UltimateKyuubiFox 5 лет назад

    We really need a return to form with film posters. Every Marvel poster, for instance, is innately inferior to its alternate design. Film as a medium is so detached from viewing itself as art that a mere shift in poster design might be what we need for perception to shift again. Disney is like the biggest company in the world and if they don’t feel safe marketing their products, how is film supposed to be safe as a whole?

    • @Moodboard39
      @Moodboard39 8 месяцев назад

      They there for money

  • @thomasbyg4795
    @thomasbyg4795 3 года назад

    AGAIN...GREAT LITTLE FILM ...NO INFO ON WHO...WHAT ... OR BACKSTORY... ON IT'S INCEPTION...

  • @URBONED
    @URBONED 5 лет назад

    to say he put equal to or more effort into his posters than the directors did on their entire film is a bit of a stretch.

  • @rtpoe
    @rtpoe 3 месяца назад

    It boggles the mind that Saul Bass is not included among the Great Artists of Post-WWII America. Roy Lichtenstein copied the style of comic books, Andy Warhol LITERALLY COPIED someone else's design for a soup can label - and they are Great Artists.....

  • @jdfgkjdfvhkfdj6740
    @jdfgkjdfvhkfdj6740 4 года назад

    🇹🇷