Obviously, posters aren't as popular in such a digital age where video trailers and vox pop interviews can become far more wide spread reaching far larger audiences, posters only really capture a very local audience, depending where it is sent out to and distributed. Even so, they still remain the most recognisable and traditional method of advertising a new film.
For my short film, I took inspiration from posters for some of my most favourite films. Posters for:
Scary Movie:
The Hobbit:
Love Actually:
What you may notice from all these posters is how there is one main image above the main bulk of the text and legal writing. They're also all featuring an after market image, where the main actors from the film have been placed in special photography set specially for the poster e.g. they aren't stills from the film. I really like this layout, as often I find I cannot read or make out the writing where its been placed in with the poster image. I also find it looks a lot neater and more pleasing to my eye at least. Hence, I shall develop my own poster with these criteria in mind!
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