Existing Movie Posters

A poster was also needed to market my film, and so I decided to research existing posters, to gain knowledge on what would create a successful advertising poster for my film. From looking at existing posters, I found they tended to only depict a single image, which set a tone of the genre. Many of the horror posters I looked at, were dark in colour, and were often a close up of the main characters face. I found the first image particularly useful as it depicted an eye, something that I needed to incorporate into my design. I find the poster very effective as it is the fingers coming out of the eye that creates a sense of mystery. I chose to look at the second poster, as I liked the fact you had to look deeper into the image to discover what it depicted. The poster contained a tag line of 'what will it sound like when you did?', this is something I wish to include in my poster. Finally, I was attracted to the last poster, through its mysterious appearance. I like how we are not able to see the whole face, as it has been darkened. I like the layout and wish to create a poster similar to this for my final piece.