Film Poster

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POSTER MAKING

Film Poster Sketch Plan

With the starring actors named conventionally across the top, the main image and main character at the center, direct eye contact to grab viewers attention. The credits at the bottom section of the poster.

Front Cover

'HUNT' Magazine

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FRONT COVER MAKING

Magazine Sketch Plan

FC/P Photographs

Photography for Front Cover and Poster

Behind the Scenes

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Sketch plans pre-photography

Make-up (Shannon)

Photography with a backdrop & flashlight

Horror Audience Brainstorming

In our group we discussed a few things we thought that was a potential film horror person or audience. I had very creative ideas and expanded on very metaphoric examples, such as the gummy bears. As these sweets are very chewy, tastes sweet and addicting. I almost related it to gore in horror and some plots within the genre where the characters have addictions or are driven mad...

For the gender ratio, I would note that we re-discussed how the ratio would be best 60:40 as male to female as males would still be a major audience that would be more catered to due to the multiple factors already involved.

Production Name & Logo

PHANTOM PRODUCTIONS

Logo

Making of Logo: Progression

Film Title Font

Which font?

I looked through DAFONT.COM in order to find my film title font. I specifically looked through the horror category of the website in order to pinpoint more genre specific designs.

I chose these selective few. I chose these few as I liked the look and feel of the font's design and print on the page.

I quite liked the way Bleeding Freaks looked, it had a very fancy sans serif play with it. But I knew it was not going to fit into my genre nor plot type (if my film were on clowns, I'm sure I would have been able to use this font, unfortunately, I am not doing a horror film involving clowns). Stranger Back in The Night had a more simpler feel with it's font. It was therefore less impactful as a result. Although I would not use it for my film title, I feel I may be able to use it in another way or another piece of text. Similarly, Quiet Horror Story also did not stand out as the font looked UltraThin. The Night Creatures stood out for me, but I was looking for a more rougher look, the lines and edges although look creepy due to the over extensions, it somehow felt slightly too fancy for a horror title in my opinion.

After narrowing it down, it was between Another Danger, Crucifixion and Lazy monk.

I tried all three of the fonts. Another Danger was the final font chosen for my film title! This is because it had the right flair and stubbiness to it's design. It played with a design where it looks like scratches, bold enough and sharp enough to feel rather provoking. Lazy monk gave the same mood as Another Danger however it was difficult to use it as the scribbling around the letters felt too messy and ruined the space around it. Crucifixion was a very good font which looked much more like 'scratches made by a demon' however it was also difficult to work with as the writing was too erratic. It was difficult to balance on the page unlike Another Danger.

Front Cover Analysis

Inspirational Posters Analysis

I have chosen to illustrate my film poster.

Therefore, I firstly looked through google briefly for graphic examples of horror posters and found lots of examples of teaser posters (which had a lot of space and more simpler designs - briefly giving imprinting the idea to viewers) and full posters (which used space in clever inventive ways in order to sneakily implement different existing elements related to their film into the poster).

Flat Plans

Front Cover

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Poster

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Poster Analysis