Poster Development

Here are some images of the development of our movie poster. We decided to include a photo of Megan looking very distraught. We achieved this look by smudging her make up so she looked like she was crying. We also had her gazing into the camera because we saw during research how important the gaze of an image can be. Getting Megan to have a serious expression on her face was something that was essential for this photo to be successful. We then had to decide on the colours that we wanted on our poster. We chose red, black and whites mainly because they would stand out well on a poster. We also chose these colours because they are typical of a thriller poster.

Whilst developing the poster we decided that we wanted to change the image to black and white. We feel that this adds more mystery to the poster and therefore it fits in well with the genre of our film.Whilst thinking about the layout of our poster we had to consider what we had seen on other movie posters in our research. We knew that the poster must include a billing board and we saw in other movie posters that it was usually placed at the bottom of the poster. Therefore we decided this would be where we would put it. Also, we knew we had to include the date of release on our poster. We decided to put this at the very bottom underneath the billing board and chose to have it in a fairly large font. We then thought about where we would put the title and the main actresses name. The font we used was chosen because we all feel it looks quite professional and like a thriller kind of font. The name of the movie had to be the largest size font on the poster so that people would see it clearly and because it is the main focus. We added a chess piece to the side of the photo because our movie has a lot about chess involved in it.