Preliminary Posters

 I decided to begin to create posters with various ideas on it, we had the basic idea of having our main character's face as central to the poster and half of which faded into darkness. Representing her fading into her illness and two sides of her due to her dis-associative identity disorder. Therefore i decided to practice on paint and picasa 3 so that when it comes to the real poster, we would have an idea of what we can do and what resources we have. First i began with a basic idea with a random picture just to display what half of a characters face would look like. The i started to add pictures of our actual character to see what it would look like. I did this so that we would have the basic knowledge of what we need to include. for example, the title, a tag line, a main image, the production and distribution details, the release data and the rating.

When making our poster, we thought it would be a good idea for us to begin making a few posters, in order to test different ideas and layouts to ensure we find the one that is more effective. We would have a better idea of which pictures work best with what lighting and effects, but also whether it should be detailed or simplistic. When we completed each one, we did find that the detailed poster was more effective in promoting the film. We did not have to edit the photo too much, just the use of deepen and darken around the face, emphasised the face and making it very clear and striking. Also, the layout of only having half a face emphasises the dominance of her alter ego due to her disorder. The following posters could be classed as teaser posters. 

This poster is very wide horizontally, the eyes are really emphasised by the black background. They are in between D.I.D YOU? Which indicate that we are asking her did you? This will intrigue the audience. We also included the release date along with red smoke which is also featured in the trailer, integrating them together and red represents blood and anger which are themes within the film. Although we are not using it officially, we did think that this is the type of promotional poster for our film that would feature on the sides of buses or trains.

This rectangular vertical poster is very creepy due to the lighting and editing. We did use darken and deepen in order to amplify the shadows. This just includes the date and tag line making it very simplistic but we feel effective. There isn’t to much writing that it distracts from the main image. However, we did feel that this was very horror themed which may not be the best for our film as we wanted to avoid confusion.

Again this is very simplistic, however it does include essentially the most important thing: the title and date. We also felt that this effect really assists the costume and make up as the blood on her neck looks almost as if it were real which is exactly the effect we wanted. We went for a completely different approach here, with the shape of the poster, and the colour scheme but we feel it looks very effective. 

Although our task was to only make one main poster which we have done, we still felt it would be beneficial to show the others. Also, films have a multiple of posters they use in order to promote it well, often others more simplistic or more detailed than each other.