Poster Presentation – Framing, Mounting and Light Boxes
When you are going to hang a poster up on your wall, don’t just use Blutac or sticky tape!!
Consider framing or mounting your poster, or even using a light box. This way you will get the full effect of your poster—and it will last much longer.
Framed Movie Posters are wonderful in your living room or a bedroom or study. They can also add real atmosphere to a family room or to a home theater.
You can buy ready made frames or mounts, or make the frame or mount yourself. Check out your local hardware store for materials. Or else, check out the Internet, especially eBay—there is a great selection out there.
While both frames and mounts offer a great way of presenting a more attractive finish in any room, in a dedicated home theater room, the ultimate in movie poster presentation is the backlit poster light box. The use of a backlit box will better help bring about the cinematic ‘feeling’ into your home.
Movie poster light boxes add a unique finishing touch to your home theater, or in that case, anywhere you want to display your favorite poster.
The classical way to illuminate movie posters for display is from behind. Most poster light boxes operate in this manner by having a light source mounted on the rear side of a box frame.
These poster light boxes are also referred to as ‘backlit poster boxes’ and are normally designed to take 1 Sheet posters.