Podcast covers

Since my last post I have actually become the co-host of the Cinema Villainy podcast.  I've been designing a new cover for each episode, even some of the old episodes that I wasn't co-hosting.  A lot of time I take a still from the movie and Photoshop it into something different.  The following are a few of the ones that I like the most...


I took the image of Ryan Gosling from one of the posters for the movie and over-saturated it with this shade of blue.  Then I took a cityscape from from Los Angeles and put it in the background and hit it with pink.  The sky was fun to shade like this and then I just added text.  It took a few minutes to find the font they used for the movie, but this color scheme seems to be in a lot of the designs for the film.


Leeloo had just been "born" and was on the run at this point.  I always loved the framing of this shot.  I enhanced the light and dark areas of the drain pipe and made it orange.  I took the background behind her and made it a different hue of orange.  I brightened Leeloo up and blurred things up a bit.  The simple text is similar to that used on the original poster.


To me, this sums up a lot of The Professional.  It's Leon hugging Mathilda after he has saved her again.  The entire film revolves around Leon basically being a father figure to her so this seemed like the perfect choice.  It is a movie about a hitman, however, so the grungy red made sense to me.  I used simple text again because it put me in the mindset of a typewritten police report.