Poster Design

After looking for other short film posters online, I found a style that I really liked and want to replicate for myself. Rather than using real shots of the actors, these posters had digital drawings of the characters by using only one colour but with different shades. Here are two examples of the posters.

 There are multiple reasons as to why I like these kinds of posters. For starters, the characters are noticeable as the person in the short film. Although it is not them and rather just a drawing. The characters can be seen with a trait the they have in the film also. For example, in strangers in a bed, the man is quite an angry man throughout which is clearly shown in the poster. Because the image is drawn rather than an actual photo, it can be altered a lot easily. For instance, in the tea chronicles, the man is drawn small and inferior to the man with the cup. Drawings can also be mixed and symbolic rather than true to life as shown by the strangers in a bed poster. The symbolism can mean multiple things depending on who looks at it so i will have to choose what patterns, shapes and objects to put into my poster to give the general message of being trapped. (Maybe like a key or something to do with being locked like a padlock)

Posters - Key Conventions

Title- The name of the film. This is the biggest text on the poster to stand out to the audience.

Selling Line - Smaller text somewhere near the title. This sums up the film in a small phrase.

Main Image - The most important image of the poster. It is the biggest and clearest and normally contains the main actor(s) involved.

Secondary Images - Other images used on the poster that may be used to highlight other things in the film that didn't fit in the main image.

Background - The image or colour scheme used in the background. This often conveys the location of the film or the atmosphere.

Actors - The names of the main actors are in a smaller font than the title. These are used as unique selling points.

Director - The director's name is on there also a smaller unique selling point.

Company Logos - The logos of the companies involved with the production are often on the poster to give smaller details about the film.

Billing Blocks - The small print used on the poster to give details about who is involved and what companies are involved.

Change of Plan

After asking the school care taker, I have found out that my school no longer opens on a saturday. I had originally planned to film my shots on saturday but I now have to change my plan to film the main footage of my short story after school when my actors are available. This is a little inconvenient because my schedule revolved around the filming on saturday but I don't think the timing of the production will be delayed any later than 2 days. Because I need to film after school, I now need to make a few signs to put on the doors requesting people to use the other stairway while filming is in progress. I am going to film using a lot of different shots so if someone happens to walk through anyway, it won't disturb the production too much because I will only film small amounts at a time that I can piece together at a later date.