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: