[fanart] Season 6 promo poster

[aragarna]

Three new promo posters for season 6 have surfaced recently on the web. Which I find at best not representative of the series (is this about a gigolo or something?), at worse ridiculous (a photo from season one photoshoot, really?). Also, once again, no Peter on any of them. And I know Matt Bomer is gorgeous and all and he looks just fine all deshiveled in the first one, but Peter is just as important to the story as Neal, and I wish that every once in a while the promo people would aknowledge him. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't harm the show's success...

So I decided to make my own poster. Something that looks a little more like "White Collar" to me. And with both guys.

Comments

[sapphire2309]

Yeah, TDK is conspicuously missing from the promo posters. I like this one! :D

[scarym1.livejournal.com]

Love your promo photo. : )

I agree with you. I watch WC for both guys and it is frustrating that the promo dept doesn't seem to realize that.

[doctor-fangeek.livejournal.com]

While I generally agree with you about the USA PR people & their failure to use Peter/Tim in posters & on DVD art (at least for the first 2 or 3 sets), I think the fundamental problem this time around is general laziness & lack of caring about WC at all. I don't think any of the 'Season 6' artwork is actually new, but rather a bunch of recycled stuff hey just tossed together.

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

It was precisely the combination of those 2 things - actually 3 things - that upset me when I saw them.

There's the fact they're re-using old stocks of photos. Hell that pic of deshiveled Neal was released last year as a sort of "unused photoshoot". And as nice as this photo is, it's so far from what the show is about... It's not Fifty Shades of Caffrey, it's White Collar.

And there's the fact that once again, no Peter anywhere. NONE of the previous promo posters for any season has shown Peter. And he's only on the S4 and S5 DVDs. And yes, I understand, Matt's hot and young and I know there's a significant number of people who watch the show solely because Matt Bomer is sexy. But still, when you do a series of posters, you could still display the other man character every once in a while. I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't do any harm. Those promo are actually extremely misleading if you think this is the Caffrey show... Most of the other TV shows make posters that feature the 2 leads, or even 4 or 5 characters.

And to make it all worse, those posters are not even good conceptually. This is literally what fans can come up with when playing with existing material on photoshop to make some fanart.

[paganlowroader.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess you gotta give them credit for consistency. If I were anyone else in the cast -and certainly Tim DeKay- I'd be upset about the lack of recognition for 6 years of bringing my A game, episode after episode.
I assume this pathetic effort will include the final DVD sleeve.

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

true. Though I feel like Tim isn't the kind of guy who truly cares about being a poster boy. And he knows we love him, and we do our best to remind him. ;-)

[embroiderama]

Yes, that's so much better! They should hire fan artists to do their promo work for them. :)

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't dare say I'm any close to being a professional, but honesly whoever they hired isn't either. So, yeah, I'm sure we could do just as well. And we wouldn't even asked to be paid.

[embroiderama]

At this point, I suspect they point some intern at a folder of promo photos and tell them to pull something together. :\

[joy2190.livejournal.com]

I much prefer your version! Looks like they're definitely hanging onto 50 Shades' coattails.

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
Yeah, I mean that photo on Neal certainly has its appeal (still could do with a little less photoshop), but in what world is that representative of the show?!

[treonb.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful!

I hadn't seen the other posters, and from your description, I don't really want to. *glares at show*

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
Well, it's nothing you haven't seen already anyway! (but if you're curious, the link is in my post)

[leesa_perrie]

Love Neal, but agree, where's Peter? Or the rest of the cast? It's not just a show about Neal!! Plus the whole lack of what the show is really about and the use of old photos - and the fact that fans can do better!! *shakes head*

Still, they're better than some SGA cast photos from S5, that were so badly shopped it looked like the cast were floating above the stairs/floor they were supposedly standing on!! (No shadows = floating people.)

Love your poster, much, much better! :)

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
Yes, like, I don't know Person of Interest generally has 4 or 5 cast, Castle has Castle AND Beckett (for a show named Castle!), House had several fun promos with the entire cast... Suits always has the 2 guys, and Sherlock too. Damn everywhere I look they're more fair to their cast.

You'd think that with such an incredible cast, which is one of the main reasons the show is so good, they'd be a little more proud...

[caseyf123.livejournal.com]

I really like this. Nice job!

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! :-)

[alvahana.livejournal.com]

Your poster is way better than the official ones. Someone should pitch it to those people from the network!

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-)

[kanarek13]

This is epic, and it's what should be promoting s6 in the first place :D