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.