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Why movie poster and on-screen title designs rarely match
Why movie poster and on-screen title designs rarely match
Start comparing theatrical posters to the films they advertise, and a pattern emerges pretty quickly: the title design on the poster often doesn't match the title design that appears on screen.
Tips
March 26, 2026
9 min read
How to Create a Billing Block for Your Movie Poster
How to Create a Billing Block for Your Movie Poster
Have you ever wondered how the fine print at the bottom of a movie poster is created? This guide will help you make your own.
Tips
March 25, 2026
3 min read
Chargefield wins 2024 SXSW Jury Award For Poster Design
Chargefield wins 2024 SXSW Jury Award For Poster Design
We’re proud to announce that we’ve won the movie poster design jury award at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival this year! Our poster was for 7 Beats Per...
Awards
March 14, 2024
1 min read
Top 5 Canadian Film Industry Logos
Top 5 Canadian Film Industry Logos
Check out Chargefield Creative Director John Godfrey’s latest article on the Association of Registered Graphic Designers website. Growing up as a huge fan of movies and having an eye for...
Film
September 27, 2022
4 min read
Chargefield Nominated for 2022 Golden Trailer Award
Chargefield Nominated for 2022 Golden Trailer Award
Chargefield is thrilled to be nominated at this year’s Golden Trailer Awards! Our The Fruit Machine poster is nominated in the Best Foreign Poster category, thanks to our amazing partners...
Awards
August 2, 2022
1 min read
Chargefield Creative Director John Godfrey Moderates Design Thinkers Design & Film Panel
Chargefield Creative Director John Godfrey Moderates Design Thinkers Design & Film Panel
Chargefield Creative Director John Godfrey will be moderating the Design & Film panel at Design Thinkers 2021, taking place at 1:00 PM EST on November 18. DesignThinkers is Canada’s largest...
Interview
November 11, 2021
1 min read
Chargefield is a 2021 Reelworld Film Festival Sponsor
Chargefield is a 2021 Reelworld Film Festival Sponsor
Chargefield is a proud sponsor of this year’s Reelworld Film Festival. Reelworld Film Festival showcases Canadian filmmakers who are Black, Indigenous, Asian, South Asian and People of Colour. The festival...
Film
October 10, 2021
1 min read
Chargefield Nominated for Two Golden Trailer Awards
Chargefield Nominated for Two Golden Trailer Awards
Chargefield is thrilled to be nominated in two categories at this year’s Golden Trailer Awards! Our The Need To Grow poster is nominated in the Best Documentary Poster category, and...
Awards
July 6, 2021
1 min read
Chargefield is an official sponsor of Caribbean Tales 2020
Chargefield is an official sponsor of Caribbean Tales 2020
Chargefield is a proud sponsor of this year’s Caribbean Tales Creators of Colour Incubator. Every year the incubator concludes with The Big Pitch in partnership with TIFF, where all participants have the...
Film
September 17, 2020
1 min read
What is the standard movie poster size?
What is the standard movie poster size?
What size should your movie poster be? A seemingly simple question, but one that has a few answers. Not to worry, once you understand the end usage of your poster,...
Film
July 20, 2020
3 min read
Chargefield is an official sponsor of Inside Out 2020
Chargefield is an official sponsor of Inside Out 2020
Chargefield is a proud sponsor of this years Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival. In 1991, Inside Out celebrated its first film and video festival with a small community of...
Film
May 22, 2020
1 min read
RGD Student Awards
RGD Student Awards
We’re excited to announce that creative director John Godfrey will be a judge for the Print Award in the RGD’s 2020 Students Awards! These Awards are a great opportunity for students...
Branding
May 14, 2020
1 min read
Fight COVID-19, win a poster designed for your indie film
Fight COVID-19, win a poster designed for your indie film
Donate to a charity to alleviate COVID-19, forward us your receipt, and be entered to win a poster designed for your indie film COVID-19 is affecting the world in a...
Film
April 15, 2020
1 min read
Top 5 Movie Posters of the Decade
Top 5 Movie Posters of the Decade
Chargefield creative director John Godfrey shares his top 5 movie posters of the decade with RGD: Wandering past the eye-catching movie posters of the ‘80s is what got me interested in...
Film
April 13, 2020
1 min read
Film Independent: Effective Indie Film Poster Design
Film Independent: Effective Indie Film Poster Design
Chargefield creative director John Godfrey speaks to Film Independent about effective indie film poster design. Just as a reader may judge a book by its cover, even more so do...
Film
June 13, 2019
1 min read
Inc Magazine: Off the Shelf and Into the Cart
Inc Magazine: Off the Shelf and Into the Cart
Chargefield creative director John Godfrey shares some packaging design tips with Inc Magazine in this article. Creating a package that photographs well, gives off the right feeling and experience when received and...
Branding
April 30, 2019
1 min read
The Dieline: In The Age Of Adobe Dimension, 2D Isn’t Enough
The Dieline: In The Age Of Adobe Dimension, 2D Isn’t Enough
Chargefield creative director John Godfrey recently spoke with The Dieline about leveraging new technology to create stunning product renders with Adobe Dimension and how he used it to create renders...
Interview
April 3, 2019
1 min read
Chargefield wins gold AVA Digital Award
Chargefield wins gold AVA Digital Award
We’re proud to announce that Chargefield has won its second award for the MyCity training portal that we designed and developed for the City of Hamilton. The gold award from...
Awards
January 25, 2018
1 min read
Chargefield wins gold MarCom Award
Chargefield wins gold MarCom Award
We’re proud to announce that Chargefield has won a gold MarCom award in the training portal category for the MyCity training portal that we designed and developed for the City...
Awards
October 27, 2017
1 min read
Photoshop User: Design Makeover
Photoshop User: Design Makeover
You can check us out in the latest issue of Photoshop User magazine giving a behind the scenes peek at the re-branding process of Mentor New York.
Branding
October 2, 2017
1 min read
Playdates at Sundance 2017
Playdates at Sundance 2017
We’re happy to have collaborated with Honora once again, creating titles for the new TV pilot, Playdates, selected for Sundance’s new Independent Pilot Showcase this year, and will be screening...
Film
January 17, 2017
1 min read
Nocturnal Animals Alternative Movie Poster
Nocturnal Animals Alternative Movie Poster
We’re pleased to have created an alternative movie poster in collaboration with MoviePilot.com and Focus Features to promote the upcoming Tom Ford film, Nocturnal Animals.
Film
December 2, 2016
1 min read
Song of Extinction at Luminato
Song of Extinction at Luminato
We’re proud to announce that Chargefield is working with two-time Gemini award-winning documentary writer/director and artist Marc de Guerre, on the Luminato exhibit Song of Extinction.
Motion
June 1, 2016
1 min read
Who Will Survive America Streaming Now
Who Will Survive America Streaming Now
Sheldon Candis’ Who Will Survive America for SundanceNow Doc Club’s Take 5: Justice in America series is now streaming online. Chargefield created key art, social media graphics, as well as titles and...
Film
May 16, 2016
1 min read