My film poster

As a part of the brief, we had to design our own individual film poster. This was my design:

- First of all one of the main things that i had to decide was whether to take a screen shot from the film or to design my own. I chose to take a screen shot from the film because if my group did decide to use this as the final film poster i felt that it would be easier to produce.

- Next of all i chose to have the shot of the main character walking down the street, this was because i felt that it showed him in isolation, and not around anyone which will signify to the audience that the character is meant to be coded as kinda lonely. This is also reinforced by the character wearing earphones, like he is in his own little world and cut off from everyone else.

- One of the other factors which i thought was important was the tag line, i wanted my tag line to be effective, and also make a potential audience watch the film. I chose to have the word isolation, because that is one of the main themes throughout the film, so it will give a hint to the audience and also because it is emotive language.

- I chose to have the title appear on the road so that where the road was plain it would make the title stand out even more. Titles that our group is looking at are "The bench" and "Like father, Like son"

- The cast names are placed at the bottom of the poster as it is a common convention to have the actors names at the top or bottom of the poster. This will reinforce to the audience that it is a film poster.

- The colours which i have chosen to incorporate into the poster, are dark and bleak. I did this so that i could try and represent the mood of the film. Therefore giving the audience and sense of the themes which are going to be represented in the film.

- I feel that this will appeal to this target audience because first of all, the potential target audience can relate to the character, as they will be of the same age and also of the same class.