Becky: Cinema Poster

Everyone in the group had specific poster types e.g. DVD poster, mine was to create a cinema poster. Firstly we had to draw a rough draft of what we were aiming our posters to look like; this includes the chosen font, tagline and images that will be used. It is important that each poster is cohesive with the other as all are advertising the same film, so the title and tag line on each poster needs to be the same.

 Rough draft of my cinema poster

When taking the photographs for the main image, I used my draft as a guild to angle the model to create the image I was aiming for. 

After the photos were taking and uploaded onto a computer, I opened it up on a program called Photo Shop. On this complex program I cropped the image and blacked out the background, I did this to keep the location a secret also it draws all the publics attention to the writing including the title as well as the main image. 

When this was completed I transferred the finished image to Microsoft Word 2003. As Leonie was the first person to do her poster, she created the template for all our posters; this included the font and colour of the title as well as the names of the cast and crew. 

When my image was opened onto this program I had to move and alter the size of the writing to fit around my main image, also I added some extra information including the opening date of the film.

Final cinema poster

As our target audience is adults (15+) i kept the coloures of my poster dull and not vibrant as from research most children film posters are vibrant and extremly colourful; these bright, attractive coloures anchor the younger generation to watch the film, also it draws them in; therefore i used darker and more blunt coloures as i didnt want to attract the wrong audience. As well as this, we chose a font that was simular to those that are used for the titles of period dramas e.g. Pride and Prejudice; this font works cohesively with the main image which is of the main character in her dated, Tudor styled dress; together they attract our target audience successfully.

I am pleased with the outcome of my poster; I believe that it is suitable for its purpose which is to attract and perswade the public to watch this film.