Blocking: HoURGLASS

For this study, I wanted to look at different composition types I saw in other posters. I found posters that at a glance struck me as “not Struzan”. The posters below, I thought were too symmetrical and bottom heavy to be a Struzan. I call this composition style the “Hourglass”.

However, I did find that this is a Struzan style. As I found in a previous study HERE, the carve vignette Struzan uses is shaped by the pinch Hourglass composition:

Breaking the Hourglass

And I did find that some of Struzan’s most famous compositions used an almost-Hourglass. It usually involves adding an asymmetrical element (often on screen-right) that fills in a part of the hourglass and links the top of the hourglass to the bottom