Drafts of posters (1)

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Drafts for my film poster

• The evolution of my film poster

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My initial design

• Originally, for my film poster, I was going to
  use a medium shot of the main protagonist. I
  would then add the various conventions from
  generic film posters onto my poster. This was to
  create an visually appealing poster with an easy
  to understand design. My first attempts at
  creating this type of poster did not go smoothly,
  as I had no real direction, I tried to make a
  generic poster, yet I lacked the style to make it
  appealing. As you can see below, I quickly gave
  up on this style of poster, and I attempted to
  create a poster of a certain genre.

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The next step

• My next idea was to create a poster of the
  mystery genre. To do this I did research into
  mystery posters, examining the wide variety of
  posters and trying to select style to emulate.
  I decided on a similar style to the film poster
  for Flightplan.
• I one again decided to use a picture of the main
  protagonist. However this time I decided to use
  a medium close up with a direct mode of address
  with the audience. Similar, but not exactly like
  flight plan. This time however, like Flightplan,
  I decided to add a background to the picture, to
  give the audience an idea of the setting and the
  tone of the film. Once again I decided to switch
  the style of my film poster. This was mainly due
  to the fact that halfway through production of
  our short film, we decided to put more of an
  emphasis on the surreal nature of the short film

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The final style change

• After our priorities changed when it came to the
  genre of our film, I decided to once again change
  the style of my film poster, to match the genre
  of the film. This was to make the poster a more
  effective marketing tool for the film, as it is
  quite counter intuitive creating a mystery style
  poster for a surreal film.
• As surreal poster focus on disturbing or wacky
  imagery, so I decided to create a poster with
  weird imagery, so I focused on a subject that has
  a serious impact of me, namely the eye. Eyes are
  also quite common in surreal film posters, as I
  found during my research. Unfortunately I
  struggled when it came to reacting a unique and
  interesting take on this cliché of surrealism
  poster.

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Making the poster my own

• To help show of the surreal style of my film, I
  created the poster, with the imagery of an eye.
  Now, a serious issue appeared, I didnt know how
  to give a unique take on my poster, at first I
  decided to fill the rest of the background of the
  poster in a flesh like color to blend in with the
  eye. I was reasonable happy, however I felt that
  something was off. So I created a second version
  of the poster, I created a juxtaposition of the
  surreal imagery of the eye, with the ordinary
  grey background. I am undecided which is my
  favorite, however I am pleased with how I have
  progressed, I have picked up a number of new
  skills, and I have gained a quite large amount of
  knowledge relation of the conventions of posters,
  mainly what is needed an how it should be
  arranged.

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Final version

• I decided to go with the grey background, as I
  quite liked the idea of a juxtapose on the
  poster, it also appeared much better when printed
  out, compared to the other poster I created.