DECONSTRUCTION OF MY FILM POSTER
PLANNING
The three posters that I chose to analyse all have a similar design which is one that I am very fond of. The protagonist is positioned taking up the full frame of the poster or most of the frame with their eyes looking slightly off to one side. This inspired me to create my poster using these ideas.
Similarly to my trailer, all of the film posters I analysed are thrillers and so this gives me an idea as to how I should set out my poster in order to fit in with the thriller conventions.
All three of these films include the protagonist either on a pursuit in solving a mystery, trying to set things straight, discovering a great evil or discovering an unwanted truth. These themes pop up in my trailer and become especially significant towards the end of my trailer when we, the audience, see that Molly (our protagonist) finds out she is part of a twisted game show.
For my poster, I want a similar design to Secret Window as I love the close up and shadowing on the face.
CONSTRUCTION
When we were constructing our film poster, our group did a photo shoot with the actress who plays our protagonist, Molly. We took many images, however they did not come out as I had wished and the weather was too bright. I felt this did not depict the film in the right way.
We later then had another photo shoot when the weather was more gloomy and decided this fitted with our theme more.
EDITING
After my first draft, I decided that I wanted to include a picture of the French town that Molly was staying in so that the audience had an idea of the location. This could also be a way of attracting them. I printed off my unfinished poster and drew on what I wanted to design later.
I got inspiration from posters such as 'Secret Window' which helped me to design my poster. I included a close up of the protagonist and another close up of her but slightly faded out to create an eerie effect. This involved me layering the two photos together and decreasing the opacity on one of them. I played around with the brightness and contrast of the image but chose to go darker to fit in with the thriller convention.
Although I was keen to include the French house in my poster, upon the feedback I received, I realised the line from where I had cut the house out from was too harsh and not subtle enough to fit in with the rest of my poster. I decided to use the paint tools and work the colour of the protagonists hair and the bricks of the house and merge the colours together so that the sharp line would go unnoticed.
After having successfully blended out the harsh line I was able to focus on the size and colour of the text and positioning of the billing block. The images displayed above shows how I have rearranged the positions for the actors and the different colours against the background in order for them to stand out the most and look appealing to the audience.
RESEARCH
Poster analysis of The Sixth Sense
Poster analysis of Secret Window
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