Film Poster Pictures

Beth was in charge of taking the pictures for the poster, which included the photos of Ellie and also a picture of her house. Below are several off the unedited pictures that we may be using for our film poster:


It was Beth's job to take several different shots of Ellie for our film poster, the basic idea for this picture was to take a shot of Ellie looking straight at the camera with a startled/ wide-eyed expression. However we dont want to have the whole of Ellie's face in the picture, only around 60% of the face.
We now need to look at each picture thoroughly and take into consideration which one will work best for our film poster. Certain aspects that we need to consider are; the lighting, the expression, the size and how easily we can fit it into our poster.

Above is the image of Ellie that we have decided to use for our film poster, we went for this one because the lighting in the photo was the best and highlighted Ellie's startled look well. It was also the best size for the poster because it showed the right amount of Ellie and still allows for her emotion to be portrayed.

Aswell as the image of Ellie's face we also needed a picture of Beth's house for the background of the poster. We needed to ensure that the the picture was taken at the correct time of day, this is because we wanted the sky to look gloomy and dark but we couldnt leave it too late as otherwise when we came to editing the picture it would look to dark and blurry to see.
This is the picture of Beths house which we are going to use for our film poster:

Font changes

After trying out the several fonts that we had initially chosen, we decided that some of them did not work as well as we had hoped and therefore it was necessary to change them.

• Playback- Magazine front cover name will be in font - Franchise.

• Darkness Awakens- Title of the film on the magazine front cover, film poster and movie trailer will be in font- ACID LABEL of Dafont.

• Film awards 2010 highlights- writing on magazine front cover will be in font- impact

• Exclusive interview- writing on magazine front cover will be in font- Copper STD

• Issue 217-writing on magazine front cover will be in font-200 Century gothic

• Trailer writing (Eleanor Failes/ release date)- will be in font Tosca Zero

• Behind the scenes- magazine front cover- impact

Film Poster Planning

I originally began designing the film poster for darkness awakens on the computer package Adobe Indesign. At this point in time the pictures that we will be using for the poster are unavailable so I decided to start by making a simple template on the computer using our original ideas. I began by opening a blank document in Indesign and filling it with a black background, this is because for our poster we wanted to keep the colours dark and monotonous and having a temporary black background will give me a rough idea of whether the other colours in the font work well.
I then added in the text that we have decided to use for our poster and positioned them where they are going to be in the final poster. The font I used at this stage is not the font that we are going to use in the final poster it is solely there to give us an idea of what the poster will look like and how big or small the font should be, and also where we should position the text in the poster.
I decided to write the stars names “Eleanor Failes” and “Lucy Smith” in red writing and position it at the top of the page, in order to make it look more effective I decided to make the first names of the stars bigger then their last names which I positioned underneath of the first name. The reason I did this is because it is a conventional aspect of a film poster to have the stars name at the top of the poster, this is because it is purposely there to attract more people with the star appeal of the film.

I also decided to put the "IN CINEMAS JULY 20TH" in bold red font at the bottom of the page. Even though this poster is only a template for our actual film poster, we all felt as a group that we liked the positioning and font of this line and therefore we are going to use it in our final design.

I then went on to try and find the best positioning for the title of the film and also where to position the line for the review of the film. I decided to write these fonts in a white colour because i wanted it to stand out from the black background and from the red font that i used for the other pieces of texts.

The font i used for the title of the film "darkness awakens" is not the actual font that we will be using from dafont.com, it is simply there to give me a rough idea of the positioning of the text and the size of it.

For the review line "The best thriller of the summer", i decided to copy star shapes from Microsoft Word and position five stars below the line.

This is what my final template looked like when I had finished positioning the texts and sizes of them. This template will give our group a rough idea of how the final poster will look, however we may change certain parts of the poster if they do not work well with the images:

Final Trailer

This is the link to our finished trailer from YOUTUBE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omg7SNaNLE0