Further Poster Designs

These are refined poster ideas using Serif DrawPlus8 and our new photography!

More filming, more photography

We have successfully done more filming and photography for our posters :) yay! So a BIG thank you to our actress Jenny, who once again had to clamber into a damp coffin, and cover her beautiful face in "dead" make up. Thanks :)



The following images have been slightly edited to contrast the light to create a more cinematic effect. For the make up we darkend around the eyes, paled up the skin and lips, and back combed the hair. We attempted to create the "gothic" look.   

Potential poster photos

Here are some rough potential photographs for our poster, if we decide on the Blair Witch Project style of treetops: 

Abyss poster idea

Poster designs in more detail

We discussed our poster designs in more detail, paying particular attention to layout. The bottom two designs were examples of more conventional layouts, and although these satisfied the genre we thought they were not particularly unique. We therefore tried to expand our creativity in our other designs.  

Our favourite design is the top left hand sketch. It is the most relevant to our plot, whilst remaining intriguing to the viewer. We also thought a lot more about where the viewer's eye line would naturally fall. Our next step will be to take high quality photos of our actress so we can develop our ideas further.

Buried poster 2 deconstruction

Tag line research (from other media blogs)



Progeny's tag line is 'Hush little baby, don't sat a word'. This is an effective tag line because there is a child featured in the poster as the main image. Because of the way the child is positioned and dressed, she looks sinister which puts an edge on the simple nursery rhyme line and gives it a scarier feel. The line is also relevant to the film because it is the main song in the trailer, so the poster and trailer are clearly linked.





Insurgence's tag line is 'sometimes it's better to be left in the dark'. It is a good tag line because it reveals the film has a literally dark narrative, which can also be seen from the night vision style image. However, it is quite long so not particularly catchy .





Seventh Heaven's tag line is 'the hangover you'll never get over'. This is a good tag line because it is clearly related to and implies the narrative of the film being focused on alcohol. However, it is also quite long- tag lines should be short and catchy.  





This is a sketch for the Thick Skin poster. Although not the final product, it has been decided that the tag line will be a quote from the teaser trailer. This is a good idea because it directly links to the film and people will rememeber the line when they watch the film so are likely to repeat it, promoting the film. This would not work for our poster, however, because we have little dialogue and it is all 'help!' and 'get me out!' so wouldn't work very well.



Pan's Labryinth Poster Deconstruction

First Poster ideas

Our first poster design ideas- very vague!

The Golden Section