Creating our poster plan

In the group we had been talking about a name for our film and now we had to begin to think about what our poster would look like. We decided to plan what we wanted on our poster and started by thinking about fonts. Looking online our group found many fonts and chose a few which we felt would suit our poster and film.

These are the five fonts that we decided to compared to each other. We picked our favourite after we all looked at them and chose to use the fourth one. We felt this one looked the most professional however it also looks quite simply and would not overpower the images in our poster. Also we liked this font as it was all in capital letters and this looked more effective on the poster and stands out more to people. Compared to the other fonts here, the one we have decided to use on our poster looks quite simple but after looking at other poster we have seen that most thriller posters have simple fonts for the titles.

This is our final poster plan which we think will be very helpful to us when creating the real poster. We have included the font and title that we will be using on our final poster. We have also added other images which we found online and placed them where we think we would like to place them on our real poster. Looking at other thiller posters we saw that most of them had one persons face on the poster. Therefore we decided to follow this convention and put our main characters face on our poster. Also we thought about using a chess piece on our poster because this links in with the name of our movie and also fits in with the plot and trailer. We are going to make our poster portait because we will be using a portrait photo of the girls face and also as we feel that most thriller posters are portrait. On this plan for our poster we placed the title at the top and I think this looks successful as it stands out quite well but does not take the focus away from the photo and chess piece. Also we have included a billing board which is something we will have to include on our poster. We added the billing board at the bottom because this is where most poster places them. The colour font we decided we are going to use for the billing board is red. The colour red is something that we noticed was included in most thriller posters as it adds a sense of intensity to the poster as well as indicating it is either a horror or a thriller. The other colours included on our plan are mainly black and white. We chose to use black and white because these colours are fairly simple and are typically used on thriller posters. One thing I feel that could make this poster plan better is to change the colour of the title slightly so that is stand out better over the top of the chess piece.