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)