Film Poster Development..

We are currently in the process of designing our film poster on Microsoft Publisher. We have decided on a pink and orange colour scheme, as these are generally seen on ROM-com posters and portray the feeling of romance very well. We came across a dilemma when we realised the actors names we had chosen to star in our film didn't fit very well with our format, so we changed Zoey Deschanel to Gabriella and Andrew Garfield to Garfield. This was a long process to pick the names, as they had to be the same sort of length and fit well together. We decided to make their last names bigger and a different colour to stand out and catch the viewers eye, because the actors/actresses last names you generally more famous than their first. We have created a tag line for our film which is "love makes the imperfect, perfect" we put this on our poster as well, we chose to put it at the bottom so not to distract people from the title and actors names. We noticed that all film poster have billing boards on the bottom of the poster, we therefore created our own. Generally people tend not to read the billing boards on a poster and therefore granted this feature less iimportant. We zoomed into a ROM-com poster to see what content is included in a billing board, we did our research to find a popuar ROM-com director and chose Nancy Meyers to be supposedly directing our film. We are currently fighting with the size of the writing to make the billing board and it is currently a size 14 in Bodoni MT Poster Compressed style. We chose this writing as on posters it's usually quite squished up and hard to read, and this rests well with the rest of the poster. We chose not to include a specific date of release and decided to just go with Summer 2011, most ROM-coms tend to be released durig spring and summer as these are romantic seasons, where most people tend to fall in love. Underneith the date, we chose to put a website for our film as we found that post posters do have them. Obvoiusly we still have to add in the main picture and title but we haven't had a nice day to take pictures for it. We are planning to have a picture of the main couple sitting on a bench and try to make the title look like it's sitting on the bench with them.

Rom-Com Poster Research..

To understand what we need to include in our romantic comedy poster, we decided to do some poster research solely on Rom-COM posters. All four of these romantic comedy posters have the two main characters fronted to catch our attention, they also have the actress' and actor's names above their picture. Typically the woman is positioned on the left and the man on the right, we therefore decided to portray this on our own poster. Focussing on their names, we noticed that the last name is considerable bigger than the first, and often a different colour, we also decided to include this technique on our poster. Our colour scheme is orange and bright pink, this typically portrays the romantic comedy feeling very well, shown in the 'Faillure to Launch' poster. We also chose to keep our background plain and simple and chose white like 'The Proposal' and 'The Ugly Truth'. In these posters we noticed that the clothes the actors are wearing represent the colour scheme used on the poster, we also decided to use this convention, along with the typical tagline underneith the title. Although this is only shown on two posters, we felt that most Rom-COM's tend to have one, also that the date of release is positioned at the bottom of the poster and is not often specific. We decided to keep the typical convention of having the billing block at the bottom of the poster, which is not only shown on Rom-COM posters, but on most film posters also.

New Story Line..

We have decided to alter our storyline to give it more depth and challenge the usual conventions by using the a black boy as our main male character. Usually in a ROM-com, the main couple are of one origin and don't usually mix between cultures, this can be shown well in the High School Musical franchise, there is a white and black couple, but never any mixed couples. So we are tying a new thing in the media world.


Our story is about a single girl called Maria, who is looking for her perfect man. She is one of those girls who doesn't want to settle for just anybody and believe she deserves her prince charming. As she was brought up by parents with a very loving and strong relationship, she is desperate to find her own happy ending. After trying to find her perfect man she starts to wonder whether the so called 'Mr Perfect' actually exists. Her friends encourage her to go on a final date, she thinks that this man is the best person she's ever met. When she takes him back to meet her parents, the object and forbid her to see him. She's perfect for her, just not in her parents eyes.

Story Line Animatic..

This is the anamatic of our teaser trailer story line.  

Magazine Draft..

This is our first draft of our magazine front cover. After researching into Total Film magazine we decided to base our ideas around their layout. We will be using a close up photograph of our main character - Maria (Jade), as this is the typical convention of a magazine cover. We also noticed that Total Film often advertises story headings which are covered inside. The magazine also usually gives away free posters inside, therefore we have included this ad on our poster. Typically the magazine title would appear behind the main photo so we will show this on ours. We also need to make sure we include the important finer details like the bar code, date and price.