Planning: Movie poster

As a group we have decided what we're going to be working on in the next few weeks. We have to work on getting our trailer and poster of our film created, as well as editing our film clips using final cut. We decided that in our fours we are going to split the two tasks between two groups of two, two of which who are going to be working on the poster and the other two are going to work on the trailer. We decided that we are all going to have our inputs, listening to each others ideas for each task and we are going to use our creativity skills to bring out an excellent movie poster and a movie trailer. Me and Sufia chose to work on the poster, and we used our ideas, as well as the other members ideas to decide on how our poster is going to look like. I have made a plan of our poster, but it is yet to be completed. I have roughly drawn our main actor, and of what he will be wearing.

This is a rough idea of how our main actor is going to be dressed. We decided that our main actor is going to be wearing a dull green blazer (or brown) to emphasis his from the military. His going to have a strap of grenades on him which is going to be revealed slightly. Also, his going to be carrying a side bag.

Research: research on various film posters

I have done some research and identified some of the features of movie posters. I then looked at what features the movie posters had in common with other posters. As there are tons of old and new movie posters it will be hard to gather all the similar features. From this process I will learn what kind of common features each and every poster contains, which makes it eye-catching. I could look at the most popular new ones and look at people reviews to see what they liked about it.  

Old movie posters:

  

This is a poster from 1999, not very old but, as you can see lots of effective presentational elements have been used to make the poster eye-catching. The film is set in a desert, and the colours of the font and the background emphasises on this.

• Both posters have a use of striking colours that make each poster noticeable.
• Both posters present the main characters in the film. These days’ movie posters only include a few or just the main actor in the poster. 

Current and new movie posters: 

These posters have the same conceptual design. They are really eye-catching and stand out. The silhouette of the actors contains the name of the film in the centre. 

It’s interesting to note that these days move posters have a large emphasis on the main actor; where the actor is enlarged on the movie poster with other things around them. Many posters are being created in the same generic layout, like these for example: both posters have an actor in the middle of two huge buildings; they also have their back to the camera. This is effective as makes the audience anxious to find out who they are. I have read some reviews, and many people (age not specified) have said that they found the following two posters very eye-catching. These posters are similar to our ideal poster, of a man in standing in front with lots going on in the background. This shows that are ideas are easily going to relate to modern posters which will attract lots of audiences from the young generation. And, our film is targeted at a young audience, ages 7-16.

Research: On our poster step 1

The poster of a movie is an important extension of a film. The layout of the poster is very similar to our ideas of our film poster. We are using the same layout of the poster; with chaos in the background and our main actor in the front walking away from the disaster. To make it look creative and add suspense, as well as humour, we’re going to make our actor dressed as a teacher, underneath his blazers will be a strap of grenades and he will be walking away from a war scene. Also, to add humour, we are going to have a little girl standing the in the background, in the middle of the mess staring out of nowhere, lost and confused like a zombie.   

What makes this poster especially out of the ordinary and striking is the use of the dark, dull and mood-dropping colours which reflects the theme of the film. The image in the background, especially, is what makes the poster stand out and attention grabbing; there are pictures of broken buildings, car tipped over and buildings covered with large sheets. This all adds to effect of making the poster look surreal. The image of the man by himself, above all, adds to my fascination, and the description which reads ‘the last man on earth is not alone’ makes me as an audience feel anxious to find that what that means, and makes me feel tempted to go and watch the film and find out.