Initial poster ideas

Above are a selection of our initial posters. They were designed for our first trailer which we had called "manor house", but due to difficulties with our filming locations, we had to change the name of the movie. therefore the poster had to be changed as well.

1) Poster number one would have been the final piece if we had kept our "Manor house" idea. The peachy/dirty looking background was the best colour we found as it didn't draw the eye away from the main images. It also looked the best behind the red lettering.

2) This poster is the same as poster 1, but it has a green background and a hazy middle picture to add effect. We felt that the green just didn't match any of the rest of the poster and looked a bit odd. This didn't matter too much as it was only experimental and we went on to change the background colours and overall effect.

3) Again, this is the same poster just witha red background. we liked this version as all the features seemed to work together, however it still looked a bit bland. I think that where there isn't and sort of fading or effects added to it, it may look slightly unproffessional.

4) Here is the first draft of our final poster. We all liked the idea of an eye, with a photo of a person crouching down photoshopped into the pupil. The only thing wrong with this, is the colour, which i have talked about in "The final poster" part of the blog.

Probleams incurred...

• The photo of the man was part of a larger photograph. Therefore he had to be cut out and placed on a seperate layer.
• So it looks like he is looking into a mirror, there needed to be a line around the circle. There was problems with this because we couldn't get the line to run in a circle without looking fake, or clashing with the other photo. In the end a new poster had to be made with various different layers to be able to make it work.
• Finidng the right colour combinations was a problem because they either didnt work or looked unprofessional.

The Final Poster

Final idea...

On the left is a preview of our finished poster. After creating a few draft posters, we finally decided on the idea of having an eye as the main image. As a group we thought that an eye was appropriate as the film is called "watching".

• From doing research into colour connotations, the colour red represented blood, aggression and danger. Seeing as the genre of our film is horror, the colour red seemed to be a good choice so that the audience can automatically get a feel for what the film may include.
• The font that has been used is called "Times and times again". We experimented with a few other font types, including "Black Chancery" and "Baskerville" , but neither of these seemed to be right. The font we have used for the final poster gives and edgy feel and is typical to that on other movie posters we looked at.
• A typical movie poster has the titles at the bottom, so to give extra effect to our poster, we have included the names of our production company (KLM Productions) , our names, editors and photography directors. Again we used the same font as above, just much smaller so the attention is still drawn to the title.
• Finally, the cinema release date was added and also we put the South Downs college logo at the bottom. This logo acts as a symbol for "the studio" of where the film was edited and as a group we thought this gave a nice touch to the finished poster.

• This is a screenshot of our first draft. It still includes the same eye image and the photo of the person crouching down in the pupil, however the colour is an icy blue.
• We liked the idea of the eye, but decided that the blue colour gave of the wrong connotations. Instead of being seen as a horror film, the blue gave of too much of a subtle feeling to it. After playing around with a few different colours, we chose to stick to the red, as seen above.

On the right is the photograph used to create the poster. Photoshop was used to create the final poster.