{"id":72973,"date":"2013-06-09T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T13:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=72973"},"modified":"2013-06-09T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T13:01:30","slug":"no-this-is-not-the-official-poster-from-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/06\/09\/72973-no-this-is-not-the-official-poster-from-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug\/","title":{"rendered":"No. This is not the Official Poster from &#8216;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-72974 no-lazyload\" alt=\"desolation-of-smaug-poster fake\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>Without hearing from our official entities, this reporter will unequivocally state the following poster is NOT the first poster for &#8216;<em>The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.<\/em>&#8216; Why? There are a variety of reasons, some I will outline below with a &#8216;fake factor&#8217; rating. The closer to 10, the more obvious the error should raise a red flag!<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 20px;\">\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>Fonts<\/strong> &#8211; All major film\/tv licenses have a strict style guide that require all assets created follow a defined set of rules. One of the main components of any style guide are the specific typographical fonts allowed to be used. The font used with the \u00a0&#8216;From The Director of &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; Trilogy&#8217; is wrong. <em>(Fake Factor: 8)<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Film Name<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Another major component of a style guide? Getting the film name correct! Guess what folks, the LOTR trilogy can only officially be called &#8216;The Lord of the Rings&#8217; trilogy, not &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; trilogy.\u00a0<em>(Fake Factor: 10)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Existing Imagery<\/strong> &#8211; Here&#8217;s a link to the image that was used in this &#8216;poster.&#8217; Yup, just swapped the color on the jacket. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blu.stb.s-msn.com\/i\/9C\/3E96FEE3B63EBB417EE336712C65F_h498_w598_m2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"no-lazyload\">Image<\/a>]\u00a0<em>(Fake Factor: 8)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Poor Graphics<\/strong> &#8211; Let&#8217;s be real here. While some might be cynical about PJ&#8217;s films, he would never let such a poorly composed photoshop job make it into the wild. Check out the really bad &#8216;white&#8217; glow behind Bilbo<em>.(Fake Factor: 9)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Low Res<\/strong> &#8211; Anytime an image is sent around to various news sites in a lower res format, it is usually because the creator doesn&#8217;t want you to notice the poor quality of the composition.\u00a0<em>(Fake Factor: 5)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And on and on&#8230;(I&#8217;m sure many of you will find additional reasons)<\/p>\n<p>Here at TheOneRing.net, we try our hardest to never report something as &#8216;fact&#8217; until we are sure. But if this is the real poster, then we don&#8217;t have much faith in what is coming next in the franchise!!<\/p>\n<p>Do you see other red flags in the poster that clearly show its a fake? Enter them below in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without hearing from our official entities, this reporter will unequivocally state the following poster is NOT the first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"No. This is not the Official Poster from 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-iYZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72982,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72973\/revisions\/72982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}