Rough Sketches Of Film Poster Designs

Here are the two rough sketches of the poster designs for mine and April's media production.

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Our first idea was to have a close up shot of Lewis and Nico's (Nathan and 'The Other Nathan) face to take up the majority and be the main focus of the film poster, whilst having screenshots of certain shots of the other characters featuring near the bottom of the film poster. Taking on board what we found when we analysed various editing effects used in similar film trailers, we chose to use bold font for the name of the film. We also made the creative decision to have reviews of the film to be place just under the character's face, so that it would be the next thing that our target audience would notice. Our film's slogan is made to appear as a question to the audience, allowing them to question themselves and what they are seeing on the film poster. Following one of the codes and conventions of film posters, we chose to have the film's billing credits and website address at the very bottom of the poster. 

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Our second idea was designed to appear a lot simpler, but effective. The decision to make a brain the main focus of the film poster was made to try and represent and relate to our film's narrative (in terms of looking at how our lead male character is suffering from a mental disorder, and everything that has been going wrong from him stems from this type of mental health issue). We made the creative choice to have the name of the film appear like it was being spelt out by using various pills, which again links to the narrative of our film production, as the lead character is heavily involved in the drink and drug party scene. The film's slogan appears more as a statement, almost warning the audience of the danger that is to come. We slightly broke one of the codes and conventions with this poster design by having the name of the film placed at the top of the film poster rather than near the bottom. Like with the first film poster design, we chose to have reviews of the film placed either side of the image of the brain so that the reviews wouldn't go unnoticed by the audience.