Poster analysis

In my last post, you can see the changes I have made to my poster in order to make it look more professional. I looked on Google images at pictures of offical movie posters in order to get more of an idea of exactly how they should look.

I've already researched into horror movie posters, like the Saw posters so I wasn't looking specifically to focus just on horror posters to create my own. I realised that, other than the central picture, the actual layout of movie posters were all the same so I looked at these two posters for ideas.
Like the Beauty and the Beast poster, I put the names of the actors of my film at the top so that they stood out against the background, making the audience notice/recognise their names immediately.

 

Like the Pain&Gain poster, I decided to follow their layout of the screenplay and director information (seen below). I put the parts that I felt were important in bold font - like the name of the film, the names of Lois and me and the film company name.

I also liked that this poster put the month of the release date in bold capitals, in a bright font so the audience knew immediately when they would be able to see the film. I did the same on my poster, putting the font in red to stand out on the black and white of my poster.

 

Poster

I wanted the death symbol which is on the hand on my poster to be in red so that it stood out against the black and white of the entire background. I searched on Google for tutorials to show me how to just get one part of the image to be in colour but they were really difficult to understand. It was proving time consuming to try and change this tiny detail of my poster, so I decided to just leave it as it was because I knew it was unrealistic to try to make that change.

Second Poster

Making changes to the poster

After my teacher looked at my poster, she advised me on how I could change it to make it look more effective and to make the genre more prominent. In order to do this, I changed the placing of the actors names to the top of the poster as opposed to at the bottom as I felt that the top of the poster was more likely to be looked at than the bottom.

 

The most obvious change I have made is making the poster black and white, highlighting the red of the fonts. I decided to do this because red is the colour most associated with horror and by making this the protrusive feature on the poster, the audience are more aware of the genre created. The black and white allows a sense of mystery to what the film is about.

My Poster

Decisions

Instead of carrying on with my DVD cover, I decided that I wanted to focus on my poster instead. Although I would have liked to have finished my DVD cover first, time is proving difficult so I would rather get my poster completed to a standard that I want. Also, the back page of the DVD cover has been proving difficult for me because I don't know how to make the picture the same colour as the front page, although I have tried various different things to change it. If I have more time, I will attempt to complete my DVD cover.

The Ouija Deal - Bloopers

I have put together some of the unused clips from the day we filmed for our trailer, using iMovie.

more detail to the DVD cover

 

Starting my DVD cover using photoshop

 

Here is the beginning of my DVD cover using PhotoShop. As you can see, I have used the image of my hand with the death symbol on the hand in blood (there is a shot of this within our movie trailer which is why I chose to include this). I have tried to make my DVD cover as realistic and similar to other DVD products as possible.

Photos for DVD cover

I created the death symbol on the hand by using red and brown acrylic paint mixed together, to look like blood. I have chosen the second photo to use for my DVD cover.

       

Analysis of Bad Teacher

DVD Cover ideas

My Website completed

Here are the printscreens from my website. There is a home page, cast list page, a page about the film, photos from the shoot and the booking page. Similar to Lois' website, I have kept with the black, red and white colour theme but my background is black as opposed to Lois' which is red.

Lois' Website (link)

http://loisshipwright.wix.com/theoujiadeal

Website Layout I've chosen

Lois' Website

This is the main layout of Lois' website. There is the gallery page which includes the Cast List page and the Photos from the shoot. There is then the About Page and the Booking Page. In the third print screen, 'The Ouija Deal' is usually in a different font but the computer I am using does not display it as it should be shown. Lois has stuck to the red, white and black colour theme which we decided on.