: How to represent a general movie in a cover picture for illustration purpose? I'm making a SaaS landing page, and in the upper section there's an interactive illustration of the product (a web

@Chiappetta793

Just to dump some ideas... popcorn? Film strips? Clapboards? Red carpets? Something being filmed? The last one can be pretty versatile too; if you ever want to change what is being filmed, you can probably photoshop the images in the camera and background to be different.

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@Shakeerah625

I'd go for something very recognisable, like a popular animation movie. (Finding Dory, Zootopia, or maybe just Big Buck Bunny?).

This way it won't easily be mistaken for a still picture.

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@Welton168

A picture of a movie theater?


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Maybe add some animation and on window load move the curtains from a left-right 200px in view to something like 100px. Giving it the feel like the movie is starting?

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Another option is to have the user choose it's favorite movie from a predefined list when browsing the page and upon selection, fetch a sequence from that movie and add it in the banner.

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You can create an image of a movie premiere and it should always chance upon refresh or as a slider with the title of the most popular IMDB movie titles from the current year.

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