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.

Existing Movie Magazine Front Covers

Before creating my own movie magazine front cover, I found it essiential to research exisiting magazine front covers. I did this, to help penetrate ideas, so that I was able to create a successful and realistic layout for my own front cover. The first magazine front cover I analysed was produced by Total Film, and is displayed on the left. We are made aware that this movie magazine may contain promotional details about the film 'King Kong' instantly, by the text placed to the left of the cover. The writing is larger than the rest of the text, minus the magazines title and so we are automatically drawn to reading what it says. Also, the 'models' featured on the cover, are famous stars, whom will attract fans into buying the magazine and watching the film. The front cover also contains smaller text, promoting what else there is to read if you buy this magazine, and so I will have to incorporate this into my own piece, as to make the magazine look realistic.

The second magazine front cover was again a cover from the magazine 'Total Film'. However, althernatively this time a 'scene' from the movie has been used. This creates a genre to be formed, with a skull being shown at the bottom left hand corner. Red font has been used, this could be to connotate blood. The title of the film being promoted has been written at the bottom of the cover, centrally, and so our eyes are automatically drawn to this.