Poster Research

I looked into poster research to help produce and expand on my ideas for our trailers poster. So i looked at similar posters, which also have a horror/thriller genre and are based at the same audience and conventions.

This is the poster which advertises the film FRIDAY the 13th, I choose this on as I think that I could use some its designs and incoperate to suit my poster. I think it shows more then clearly the dark, gloomy  personer behind the narrative. I also like the way they have editing the poster so you have drawn into the centre of the light which concertates on one of the lead characters, but as its dark it doesn't give away to much about him and leaves a mystery behind for the audience to imagine what he looks like and will be intrigued to go and watch it. I also like the two main pieces of text on the poster. The quote which says "WELCOME TO CYRSTAL LAKE" has been well places at the top of the poster, it's front is not to bold and big to draw you away from the main image, and its white contrast against the black background works very well and doesn't brighten up the image. I also like the film title, the red font blends in well and also inter links the genre with the symbolism of blood and danger.

This film poster is advertising "THE EXORCIST", I also like this post as I could also use some of its designs and incoperate them to suit my poster. The biggest attraction is the way they have used the lighting so that it shows the siloutte of a mystery character, which straight away gets you involved with the film by making you think about his back ground, the poster is very dark and looks very secretive, with not alot on show it leaves it up to your imagination to furfull what you dont see which is getting you further involved with the film. The quote which says "THE MOST TERRIFYING MOVE OF ALL TIME - In a Version You've Never Seem", this grabs the audience attention as its proclaiming that its a must see horror movie, and telling the audience that they would not have seen anything like it before, this is clever as it  not giving the audience a choice, its saying that it is completely unique, so worth watching. I also like the film title, it's bold and red which usually symbolised danger and blood and you even though you know its the title, it doesn't take your attention away to much from the main image which is what i think is the posters selling point.

 

Here is our poster we created. It is based at the forest where we film the trailer. We did not have the technology to cut the villan out of our trailer, so we got a royalty free image of the net of a black figure, and used paint shop pro to clone him across.