Research: Reflection of learning of film posters with links to own film poster

1. When creating our film poster, we were inspired by a number of thriller/and psychological film posters that we saw.

1. The Girl, Interrupted

For this poster we liked the idea of the girl staring at you, as it creates an effect on the viewer. The cut off face idea I liked, during the primary editing stages we tried to re create it on our poster:

We tried to adopt the same eye effect also, but changed the colour of the eye to a striking blue. One item of the poster we thought was best not to have was a picture of another character in the background. We felt that it diverted attention from the main shock factor of the staring girl and also gave too much away about the plot.

2.

This was another poster that helped us to learn and gain ideas for our film poster. We adopted a similar faded editing effect on the face. The dark tones are similar on our teaser trailer and film magazine. We also liked the shadow effect used on the face of Bruce Willis and adopted this technique. We also liked the idea of using red in our poster because it connotates danger and blood, and this poster used it.

Our film poster:

Note the similar white and black effect used on both posters.

3.

Although it is ironic that the two films we used to help us learn more about film posters have "Perfect" in their titles, we liked both of them and the perfect witness used the eyes to attract attention to the poster. Although the majority of the colour tones are a in bold skin colour, we decided to adopt a similar technique to change the colour of the eyes on our poster from a dull blue to a striking blue in one eye and green in another. This is because it connotates fear, as clear can clearly be seen in the girls eyes on the poster.

Titles:

This poster didn't follow conventions and used minimal titles at the bottom of the poster. We decided that in order to make ours seem more realistic, we would add credits at the bottom, similar to other film posters on the market. However, we did like the white "Perfect Witness" colour as it stood out, and decided to make our font white when we made it in Indesign. A difference was the actual font and ours was against a black background.