As you can see on my last post, I have grab some screenshots from our short film which I feel would work for my poster final design and also my double-page-spread design. We didn't have time to do a more professional photoshoot because our protagonist Rory Wilton had to leave early to go to an acting audition in London which we were told by him last minute on our first day of shooting. However, I believe these screenshots look professional and will add a statistic element to both my poster and double-page-spread designs. I believe all of these screenshots fit into the thriller film genre and give an edge to each of the products I am intending to create. I also believe these images relate to other images featured on thriller film posters which I believe give them an edge which connotes that these film posters are promoting thriller short films. I believe this mainly because of the colour palette which connotes a dark an eery tone which is essential to a thriller film poster.
I believe these screenshots I have chosen, (including the photo of the chefs knife which I am looking to illustrate) will allow me to test out various different minimalistic styles of designs which will allow me come up with the most professional design for our short film.I have added an image of a chefs knife to my 'original images' section because I had an idea of using one of the main elements of our short film to promote the film, in terms of the film poster. I have seen this modern take of an Alfred Hitchcock poster of the film 'Psycho' and I feel I could recreate something like this for my final poster design. I haven't definitely decided on using this idea for my final product, but I am intrigued into how it will look
in terms of a more modern approach into the creation of my poster. I also like the fact how this poster has used the typically 'unnecessary space' to their advantage. The only two things in this poster which fill somewhat of the space on the poster is the shower head and the knife, both very important components in Psycho. I also like the stylistic feature of the text coming from the shower, representing water coming from a shower head. They have put information about the cast, director, the writer, and other important crew members, which is done in a very stylish way. I can't do this for my poster because a shower isn't an important aspect of our short film, but I like the way they have gone against more classical takes on other film posters and given it more of a minimalistic, modernised look I believe fits the market of film in todays society.
However, one element of this poster I can take inspiration from is the illustrated knife with the blood beginning to drip off the edge of the blade. A chefs knife is a big element of our short film, so I could somehow use this as inspiration for my final poster design. There is a very similar shot in our short film where the blood is dripping off the end of the knife, which looks almost exactly like the illustration of the knife in this film poster of Psycho.
Also, for my knife illustration idea, I believe I could use a relevant and symbolic colour from our short film for the background, which will allow the illustrated knife and the text of the cast and crew to stand-out to the audience. I believe the colour of black could represent the black glare of the coffee table he ultimately takes the cocaine on. I could also add some sort of powder which symbolises cocaine to show that the black background symbolises the coffee table from our short film.
I have also found this poster from the film 'Sin City A Dame to Kill For'. I like this poster because of the title in red. I believe the red title saying 'Sin City' looks very statistic and adds a certain edge and change in tone to the rest of the features of this film poster. I want to somehow incorporate this style of text and the colour red which will symbolis blood, a very crucial factor of our short film. I also believe the large bubble style font of text gives the poster a classic and animated feel to it, which I believe will fit perfectly into my film poster. I like how big the text is. It allows the title of the film to made evident on this film poster, and the audience are instantly drawn to this area, even though there are many things going on in this poster. This is definitely something I want to replicate for the final design of my poster, which is also a very important aspect because I want my poster to have more 'unnecessary' space to go against the common conventions of real media products.
Another aspect I like about this poster is how the text is laid out both on top of the 'SIN CITY' title, and underneath it. I believe it keeps the text very neat, yet stylish which is also something I want to have for my final poster design. I will therefore try this style out in the editing process of my poster to ultimately see whether or not this idea will work effectively with the rest of the elements on my poster.
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