Draft film poster

Making my draft film poster 

Before creating my flat plat I researched into film posters in my genre I found a film 'Anna' to be my main inspiration for my film trailer. 

Flats plans - 

I create a draft flat plan for my film poster so that when it came to creating it in photoshop I already had some and ideas as a base and was able to imporve and develop my ideas. 

I then created my draft film poster using photoshop, to show the stages it took to creating my film poster i used cam studio to record the process using the layers. From my flat plan idea I changed the main image on the poster as, I chose to not have the knife and place the tag line as writing in the book. I felt this gave the book a greater enigma and more relation to the story.             

Feed back on Draft film poster 

Fromt the feed back I recieved from my film poster focus group, I had similar likes and improvemnt ideas from most the poeple. 

The main advice and improvment ideas I found from my audience feed back were that the main image was good and people liked the mystery and enigma it created. However, they also said that it was difficult to get a sense of story line or plot from the one picture, on the other hand others said that they thought it was about a tragedy and that the book may have an important role within the film or that it belong to a killer or sociopath. From the audience feed back I also recieved comments about the repetition of the line "The ending is always the best", people said that they understood why this was done as the book had the ink blotch effect but others said that maybe have a different tag line as this may help construct the story line that I wish to come across in the poster.

From these ideas I decided to change my poster from a teaser to a theatrical as I felt I could portray the story line better but still retain the enigma that the main image created in my orignal poster. I chanegd the oreintation of my poster from portrait to landscape, as I felt the main image sat better on landscape poster rather than portrait.  This also allowed me to add extra images to help the narrative flow better and be presented more clearly yet still creating a sense of mystery as this is one of the key conventions of the psychological genre. 

I created this collage of images that I had created to use on my new final film poster, I wanted to have a variety as I wanted to experiment to see what image best suited the poster.

Final film poster