Film Poster planning & development
(The film poster pictures above are 3 different shots of my poster in planning/development and the shot below this is my final complete version of the poster)
Before creating my film poster, I had researched and annotated real film posters to get knowledge and ideas from. I did not get much ideas or knowledge from doing it this year as I had already done this type of research before and therefore I was already familiar with poster conventions, plus I knew what I wanted to do for my poster.
The program that I used to create this poster was Microsoft Publisher and I used fonts from the program, except for the “Through The Eyes Of A Killer” part which was created by Conor and the whole group used as it is the film logo promoting the same film. Although for the ‘chiller’ font on ‘Danny Millen’ and ‘Conor Campbell’ I imported from Microsoft Word because it has an ‘emboss’ feature which makes the font stand out and it made it look different for a bit of variety but still keeping the red/black theme.
As for the picture, pictures were done with the filming and we planned for filming so plans are the same (plans can be seen in my research & planning)
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Since I wrote the above I slightly updated the poster by changing the ‘contains strong violence, etc…’ to red so that it fits in more with the colour scheme of the poster. Although it is informing people I decided it should still look a part of the poster, and I also made the picture slightly bigger to make it stand out more. And I also made the ‘Universal’ and ‘Dolby Digital’ plus the ’18′ certificate smaller as they seemed too big and a realistic poster is the aim. Here is a screenshot:
But I later decided that I would use this version & I added a website onto the poster. This is the final version: