Ancillary Task Planning - Film Poster

As with the magazine cover, I felt that an ideal place to begin my planning for my film poster would be to review all the research I undertook at the beginning of the year. From looking back at this, some of the key points I read were:

• The text should be stylish and fitting to the film, but also clear.
• The main focus should be the characters.
• Any other focus should be on subtle equipment and props.
• Include generic features such as cast names and a billing board.
• Make sure that the colours work well together and the poster is not seen as over the top and instead sticks to a few dominant colours.

With this in mind, I decided to roughly design three different posters using the user-friendly program of Microsoft Paint and ask my friends and family of the target audiences age on their thoughts. The designs were rough but would allow for me to decide a format which I feel is an important starting point for designing a poster. The designs do not show the picture of Joe playing the character of Liam as I explained that it is assumed that a large picture of the main character would fill the gaps. I wanted a large quantified number that would be easy to understand so I simply questioned people which template is most authentic and preferable to them and received the below results.

Now that I have decided my template, I felt I should find a suitable picture of Joe to use. I have previously blogged a range of pictures I have taken of Joe throughout the task and now I need to decide which is most engaging and appropriate. From my research, I have decided and believe that a poster with Joe making eye contact with the camera is most engaging and can also lead to people feeling uncomfortable and given the severity and tense aspects of our film trailer and concept, this is fitting. I reviewed all the pictures I had of Joe and decided to edit and use the attached picture below. With my template and image decided, I decided to roughly draw how I imagine my poster to look below.