Post 28: Poster Ideas

When designing my posters i had initial ideas that I would have a character poster with the log line wrote just below the title. This way the main character is introduced to the audience but with not too much of the film given away that builds up some excitement for the film.

I also wanted to try a similar design but with more than one character centred, to show a sense of relationship and friendship in the film. Both would have the QR code to show that they're modern films with new media technology used within them. 

Post 27: Poster Development

Post 26: Annotated Poster

I decided to annotate the film posters to films of the same drama genre. Therefore I choose Titanic and The Help as both have similar story lines. Titanic showing the romance and The Help showing the social issues, although both in different settings and time eras, they both however, share the same conventions as our film, Dead End.

Post 25: What makes a good film poster?

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/02/7-elements-of-a-great-movie-poster-design/

Post 24: Posters Specific To My Genre - Drama

I conducted some research into film posters of the same genre as our film, drama, through the website IMDb.
http://www.imdb.com/genre/drama
It gave me a number of ideas to a way of creating a film poster for our film.

I found that the drama genre's film posters often contain a lot of dark colours and are made to look quite intense and dark. From this research I found that the posters all contain the main character(s) and or the supporting character(s). The posters don't give too much away about the film and only suggests the drama. Straight away we know that these posters are for drama films because of the codes and conventions that they carry such as the dark and bold colours and emotion that the images of the characters are showing.

Post 23: Poster Research

I created a Pinterest account and then pinned a range of different film posters from different types of genres from different time periods that show the differences they now have and the influence of the modern technology that allow them to seem more sophisticated. I decided to use Pinterest because it was a way of keeping all my ideas together and be able to look at them in overview while comparing them. This was a way of influencing my idea for a film poster as i took a more modern approach to poster design.

Post 22: Film Marketing for a Short Film

i found this website useful when researching for short film marketing.