Planning-Film Poster Inital Ideas

Day 1: I have now started to make my movie poster which will compliment my movie trailer. Today I worked on finding an image that I will use as the focus for my film poster. I decided to do this because when researching I found that the majority of the film posters use a bold image in the background and then base the poster around this. I felt that their had to be clear horror mise-en-scene in the image that I found from our trailer if it was to convey the narrative of our film. However after spending the lesson looking through our footage to find a still it proved difficult to find a clear image that would also reflect the narrative of our trailer, rather than simply just showing a still close up shot of one of our characters. Therefore it was clear to me that I had to rethink my approach.

Style of poster I am looking at

Day 2: After going away and researching further about what type of shot I could use that would convey narrative as well as showing a character from the film I decided on my film poster idea. As the narrative of our film is heavily focused on our main characters trying to escape a ghost which is haunting them I felt it would be important to include this in my film poster as it would incorporate the narrative of the film. Therefore I decided that a photo of one of our main characters up against a wall with their hand over their mouth would show how they are both scared and the wall would reflect how they are scared. I decided I could then take a photo of our ghost character and also blend this into the image on photoshop with editing.

Day 3: I got in contact with one of our main characters called Hayley who is playing the part of Charlotte in our trailer. I asked her whether I would be able to take some photos of her the following day for my film poster, to which she agreed and we organised when we would shoot the photos.

Day 4: In our third lesson of the day we had found that we both had a free period so this is when we went to go and take the photos. I had previously located a garage with an old looking brick wall which I decided would be the best place to take the photos as it fitted with what we needed and also incorporates an element of synergy for between the trailer and film poster. The photo I decided to use can be seen below.

Day 5: Now I have my image I can now start to manipulate the image and edit this into the style of a typical film poster, incorporating all the elements that I have found from my research into film posters.