Poster planning & First Draft

One of the Ancillary tasks was to create a film poster for the film trailer we are producing.

Due to me being the only person in the group who is confident with Photoshop, I offered to make the poster for the group. 

Isaac kindly created a plan for the film poster. I used it as a template to work off which helped a lot. Also Isaac wrote all the text which goes at the bottom of the poster, however I had to re-create it because or resolution issues with the picture. 

Isaac and I had a Skype call where I started creating the poster. Within a few hours we had created the first draft poster and it looked really good to us.

One thing we changed was the orientation of the poster. We decided that we could try making it landscape. By doing this we challenged typical conventions of film posters as they are typically portrait. 

The main image we used was a shot of myself looking into the barn. We thought it was a really good shot to use and we could fill the black with the text instead of having to remove parts of another scene. The short is a slight dutch tilt with connotes that something isn't right.

As for the typeface I thought a quite "grungy" look would work really well. It matches the theme of the film really well with all the barn scenes in the trailer. This bold typeface is common in thriller posters such as the one for the film "Black Rock". I decided to go with white and red as it not only fits with the genre and conventions of a thriller poster, but it generally just looks and works really well. Red is a really outgoing colour which pops on the poster.