Existing short film posters - 'The Cove'

For my A2 Media coursework one of my tasks involves making a poster for my short film. In order to make a great film poster I decided to take a look at some other existing film posters to get a clearer insight into my task. In my previous post I created a draft, that I am both pleased and slightly unhappy with... therefore when it comes to making my final poster I want to make it as appealing and interesting as possible. I have also learnt from my previous poster that it is important that my poster informs audiences immediately what my film is going to be about, for example the one below suggests that 'The cove' is going to focus on wild life in the water. I feel that my first draft of my film poster was clear and concise, but lacked information about my film which could either cause confusion or make my short film seem boring. - Its important that I attract my TA.

Here is a film poster from 'The Cove' documentary. The poster is simple and has used basic font throughout the entire poster. There is one main colour theme, and the use of blue connotes depth and stability. The use of quotes at the bottom of the poster suggest an element of seriousness, making the documentary seem realistic already.

Creation of my first film poster - Pictures

In my previous post I outlined the method I used to create my first draft of my film poster.

In this post I am going to upload the photos of my process so that my steps to the final (first) product can be illustrated visually...

 

This was the first step after I added filters to my chosen image. I liked the wide range of colours in the photo so I decided to enhance them to make the image itself more appealing. I did this by increasing the overall temperature and saturation of the natural colours in the photo,

I then used highlights in the photo - this one is called 'light leak' and I used the colour 03 in a green shade. 

This step was choosing a font. I wanted something bold yet simple. This was because I knew that I was not going to use much language on the poster - therefore it was vital that I used a conspicuous font for my title. In the end I used the font 'DISCO'. I also came to the decision that I would position the title at the bottom of the poster and have the names of my talent at the top of the page. - Here I used conventions of existing film posters. 

Drafting my film poster

Part of my A2 Media coursework involves making a poster to advertise my short film.
In this post I am going to upload my current draft and explain how I made it... I am also going to focus on the aspects of the poster that I personally like and of course what I think could be improved.

To start with I used my iPhone to take the photos and I uploaded my favourite photo to an editing software called 'VISCOCAM' on this program I was able to edit the basic elements of the photo which only involved a few small steps: Increasing the brightness, lessening the sharpness of the photo and increasing the temperature. - These are my photo editing rules to live by.

I then transferred this same, now edited image to another software for photos on my phone called 'PICLAY'. I liked this application because of the wide range of editing tools that some of my other apps didn't have, such as creating a 'double' or 'mirror' effect, the option to add additional art to my photos and edit the opacity of the image too. Using this I added a pink opacity filter to add colour to the image.

I also used my favourite editing tool called 'AFTERLIGHT' to make some final touches and then of course I used 'PIXLR AUTODESK' to add my title and names to the image to actually make it into a poster.

In the image I used my talent Georgia. The image itself was taken whilst we were filming in a Church.

Here is my first draft of my short film poster

Things I am happy with:

I am overall pleased with my first draft of the poster and I do like the various use of colours on the image - This makes the poster seem more interesting and appealing to an audience. I wanted to keep the poster relatively simple, with as little words as possible. I did not want to risk the poster looking messy as this will decrease chances of people wanting to watch the film. I was in two minds about using the photo of my talent in a church, however since my short film is based on culture, I do feel that this poster suggests an element of this which is also a positive note for me. I did not want my talents face to be shown, as I think that this creates a lack of understanding - the aim of this being that the TA are intrigued and want to watch the film to find out more. - After doing some research I found that many film posters tend to give out limited information about the film. This way the chances of a large audience are increased because although they may have a small understanding about the basis of the film. they cannot tell everything about the film just from a picture. Less is more, and I believe that this works with this poster.

On the other hand: Despite the fact that I am pleased with the photo and the poster itself, I think that the meaning of my film is not portrayed in this draft. I want to change this and use both members of my talent crew so that there is a slightly more in depth understanding of my film and the characters starring in it. These are just a few things that I have learnt that I would like to change and will be doing so in my final draft of my short film poster. 

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