Draft posters

As a whole group we took a full couple of lessons to complete our practice for designs of posters to promote out film Childhood. Here is what our efforts and ideas created:

The potioning and layout of the poster design we created was very much influenced by our research from The Last House on The Left. As I explained in our influential poster design post, we really liked everything about the poster however the layout is a bit simple and expected. We are looking for a different, unexpected design for our poster, a design we would put more effort into producing. That is why we had another attempt but this time changing the position and layout. Here is what we came up with and believe our design improved: (Tayler)

We prefer the second poster we created. Although the picture is larger, we managed to not loose the great lighting of the wooden back drop. We prefer the positioning and layout of the second poster practice design. The faint sentence as the top on the poster is screen grabbed from our teaser trailer as it one of the titles we used. Same goes for the first poster we designed. The film title font and text size is also a screen grab from our teaser trailer aswell as the background we insearted behind the text which is of a dusty aged wooden floorboards which relates to the wooden back drop of the still image.

(Tayler) 

We got the design idea of this poster from "Shutter"'s film poster, as it really inspired us and also influenced greatly, we like the fact that it was original and different. We loved the idea of having a person as the main image, however wasn't so obvious therefore creating a spooky effect. The images we put together used as the background of the poster are still images screen grabbed from some of the footage used in our teaser trailer.

When we first put all the images together like a collage, we found the edges of the to be to sharp and also the images to be to bright and in your face, which we felt didn't really give us the aged affect we were looking for.  In order to overcome this, we used Photoshops various tools to smudge the edges as well as blurring them slightly to create a dark dingy effect. We placed Katie's (the actress for our main character in Childhood) face in front of the collage, then after changing the Opacity level lower we were able to dissolve her face in the background. It made it look as though Katie's face was put behind the images, which was exactly what we wanted.

Overall, having practiced three individual poster design, we feel this attempt is our best yet and we are extremely pleased.

(Tayler Becky)