Movie Poster Developmental Studies.

Movie Poster, Developmental Studies

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In order to create a film poster which will successfully represent the world of our film, I reasearched many different fonts, film posters, colours and credit blocks in order to be able to develop the stages of creating our film poster.
The fonts I found all have a similar style and are all strong characters that are bold and often look rough and parts faded out. This fits a typical thriller convention as these style of fonts hold a mysterious element. They appear tough and I personally feel the "28 Days Later" would work well on our poster, as it stands out, looks rather rough and suits a thriller genre.
When researching idea's for our poster, me and my group decided that we would like to have Alfie's face covering half the poster. This idea was used on both the "Waz" film poster and also "Frailty". The "Waz" poster especially represents the style and effect we want our poster to display. The dark lighting falling across the characters face with his hood up, creates mystery and also makes him appear quite menacing, which is the impression we want Alfie's character to create. The "Dark Knight" film posters also use the idea of covering half of the characters face, however using symbols. We thought we could use this idea incorporating our films key props of the lighter our even possibly a petrol can. The dark lighting with focus on the main characters face is also an effect we wanted to use on our poster. The intimacy between the characters on the "Twilight" film poster is the relationship we would like to show between Marie and Johnny's character, even though they will only be in the background. We decided Alfie should take up the foreground of the poster to show he is the films protagonist and to build suspense. In both the "KIDS" and "Kidulthood" film posters the lighting creates the kind of atmosphere we want for our film poster. The dark, gloomy atmospher creates suspense and mystery and also highlights the focus of the main character.
I decided on dark, dull colours such as blacks and greys, for our poster as this fits our thriller genre and will also make our text which will be in red, stand out. We decided on red as this was our inspirational colour for the film and will contrast with the darkness of the poster which emphasises the suspense and mystery.
For the setting of our poster, in our group discussion we decided that the most appropraite setting for our movie poster would be a desolated dark corridor. This way we could use both Johnny and Marie's characters in the poster, as well as Alfie in the foreground without the poster looking too cluttered.
I looked at multiple different movie posters to get idea's for credit blocks. It seemed that the majority of thriller credit blocks were fairly similar and kept rather simplistic which I thought would work on our movie poster as not to draw attention away from the main focus. Unlike the "Ocean's 13" movie poster, we decided to use a typical credit block, because the "Oceans 13" credit block fits super well into the style of the film and the house style.
An idea we had for our poster was to make Alfie's eye stand out as their is a key scene in our film which focuses on Alfie's eyes. I thought we could add flames into Alfie's eyes to give the audience a clue about the events of our film. It would also add mystery to the movie poster and possibly intice the audience and interest them.