Film Poster Draft..

From our film poster research we concluded that there are some conventions of film posters that we have to abide by, these include:-

- having the date of release at the bottom

- putting the billing block at the bottom

- having the actors names is at the top

- the film title to be either in the middle or at the bottom

- a possible tag line near the title

This is our initial idea of our poster. We decided to place the main characters on a bench as this is a pose that the audience could relate to in a romantic comedy film. We would use a photo to create this image, whereas we could have drawn or computerised it. We kept the typical convention of having the billing block and the date of release at the bottom of the page as these are seen as less important. We also decided as a group to have a tag line that represents our film and gives the audience an insight of what could happen throughout the film, we decided to put this at the top to make it eye-catching and not draw too much attention from the film title. We couldn't decide the best place to put the title as we wanted to make it eye-catching and impacting, so we chose the middle.

This is our latest design. We have kept the billing block and date of release in the same as this is generally the place the audience will first look for that information. This information is also not as important as the film title and actors/actresses names. We have also kept the same image as before as it shows the genre of the film very well. We decided to add the actors names at the top of the page as this makes our poster look more professional. We had to move the tag line to underneath the image and title, I feel this was a better idea as it doesn't pull the attention away from the image and title. We decided to put the title next to the characters and try to create an effect of it 'sitting' next to them on the bench. We will use bright colours like pinks, purples and oranges and these are romantic, cheerful colours. We will try to portray this in what the characters are wearing as well as the writing. I think a white background would work best as this is typical of romantic comedy posters, such as Bridget Jones and Slumdog Millionaire.