Discussion: Create a Blockbuster Movie Poster and Win!

Create a Blockbuster Movie Poster and Win!

Some of the most action-packed movies to hit the silver screen have been those featuring caped crusaders and super-powered villains. Bring the magic of the movies to City of Heroes Freedom by creating a super hero-themed movie poster and you could win a twelve month subscription to City of Heroes and have your poster featured as a billboard in the game!

You must be 13 years of age or older and a legal resident of the United States (excluding Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. territories, military installations and commonwealths), Canada (excluding Quebec) or the European Union as of as of Wednesday, March 14th, 2012.

The contest opens at 11:00 AM CST (7:00 PM British Time/ 20:00 Central European Time) Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 and ends at 11:50 PM CST (6:59 AM British time / 7:59 Central European Time) on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 (Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 in Europe).

Using copyrighted material or trademarks NOT owned by the Sponsors or yourself is STRICTLY PROHIBITED!

How does one create a movie poster worthy of the most powerful heroes and villains in Paragon City? Here it is, short and sweet!

• The resolution for each entry must be 512 x 760 pixels
• Please create your artwork using layers so we have the ability to make adjustments
• Your unflattened image must be in PSD format
• Use sendspace.com or yousendit.com to send your image to cohcommunity@ncsoft.com
• If you are using in-game screenshots in your submission, please use the highest Ultra Mode settings that your computer allows (e.g.: shadows, water, ambient occlusion, texture quality, anti-aliasing have to be turned up; environment reflections must be turned up where applicable).

1. Between 11:00 AM CST (7:00 PM British Time/ 20:00 Central European Time) Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 and 11:50 PM CST (6:59 AM British time / 7:59 Central European Time) on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 (Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 in Europe), send an email to COHCOMMUNITY@NCSOFT.COM with the subject heading "City of Heroes Movie Poster Contest." In the body of the email, you must include the following information:
   • Your first and last name
   • Your age
   • Your location (including city, state/province, country)
   • A contact phone number (only to be used if we can't reach you via email)
   • Your full mailing address
   • The statement: "If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown and any comments which I may make about myself, and/or this Contest I provide for advertising and promotional activities. By submitting an entry to this Contest, I accept and agree to be bound by the Official Terms and Conditions."
2. Include your Movie Poster file as an attachment if its size doesn't exceed 5MB or use sendspace.com or www.yousendit.com if you have several files or the total file size exceeds 5MB.
   
   There will be (3) Winners and their prizes are:
   
   One (1) First Place Winner will receive:
   
   One (1) 12 Month Subscription to City of Heroes® (Estimated $180.00 / £108.00 / €155.00) and possible inclusion of the winner's submission in the City of Heroes® game (No retail value).
   
   One (1) Second Place Winner will receive:
   
   One (1) 6 Month Subscription to City of Heroes® (Estimated retail value $90.00 / £54.00 / €78.00) and possible inclusion of the winner's submission in the City of Heroes® game (No retail value).
   
   One (1) Third Place Winner will receive:
   
   One (1) 3 Month Subscription to City of Heroes® (Estimated retail value $45.00 / £24.00 / €39.00) and possible inclusion of the winner's submission in the City of Heroes® game (No retail value).

I can't draw worth crap... can I do a blockbuster video instead?

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Just to clarify, do these posters need to relate to CoH directly (e.g. contains CoH characters, landscapes or content), or can they just be "super-themed" in general. Like fiction inside of fiction?

Hey,

We'd appreciate them being directly related to City of Heroes. However, if you come up with something unrelated that does not violate trademarks, etc, that you think would be appropriate, you're welcome to submit it.

Best,
~Freitag

Ok, last question, I swear. Does this have to be landscape, as the dimensions suggest, or is portrait orientation okay to use? I only ask because most posters are portrait.

So, at its core, this contest is open to people with a legal copy of Photoshop?

I've googled Movie posters some more and found some landscape variations. Most are similar to their portrait counterparts, save having graphics and logo OVER the artwork directly. Most of the portrait variations are a little more graphic.

Of course are these pre-release posters? Or post release posters -- The latter would have Reviewer comments ("FIVE STARS" --Peter Clark - Paragon Post) Pre-Release posters usually have rating pending, or the Movie release dates on them. If you did those, it might narrow your window of in-game viewing...

The only thing I can think of is that these contest entries might appear on the BILLBOARDS instead of on the movie theatres themselves. Which wouldn't be too out of character, and give them a wider distribution throughout the game.

I see more and more why they'd want a layered view. In case they have to REMOVE something like release dates or some such that didn't fit.

Hi all,

I am an Australian player. I lodged a support ticket asking if I was eligible to participate, and was informed "Thank you for contacting the City of Heroes Support Team. I have reviewed your ticket. I believe your question would be better directed at the community to review. This can be done through the City of Heroes forums. "

This is that enquiry. The eligibility for the contest is listed as: ""a legal resident of the United States (excluding Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. territories, military installations and commonwealths), Canada (excluding Quebec) or the European Union".

I am none of these things yet still pay monthly and enjoy the game. Australia, you know, that awesome place way south of all of most of you; land down under with meat pies, Aussie rules, cricket, and kangaroos. And City of Heroes!

Can the owners of this contest indicate if Australian players (there are a few of us!) are entitled to participate? Or can the conditions be adjusted so we can? Oh, you'd best include my new Zealand cousins here too.

Many thanks in advance.

First off, love this contest, I'm a big fan of movie posters but I've got a couple of questions.

Could we get an official clarification on the dimensions, and the project?

The contest title says "Movie Poster" but in the rules it specifies "may be used in-game as a billboard" and the ratio is clearly not your normal one sheet movie poster.

Asking for official word on the landscape layout 1024 x 768, verses going more traditional portrait movie poster. And what the final product is because design elements traditionally change from a movie billboard to a movie poster (most notably credits or no credits).

Thanks,
Todd

Unfortunately a change had to be made to the contest - the dimension requirements for submissions has been changed to 512 x 760 pixels

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Oh, the ebil ebil things I will make

It's possible I missed this info, but are we allowed to enter with multiple posters? (Each its own entry.) I have something I can modify from last year's fan art contest, but I would like to do something new as well.

Thanks Snow Globe; I figured it was in there but my eyes kept missing it.

To the drawing board!