Film Poster

When researching film posters part of what you are looking for is how it communicates the brand of the film and how it is unified with the trailer and magazine cover.... but part of it is also just getting ideas for your own poster.

So here's how to completely rip off an existing idea (no one will ever know hee hee!).

I was sitting at one of the Macs in H120 trying to think of what makes a good poster. The answer was staring me in the face - literally. I was looking at the poster for Capote on the wall right in front of me, which I think is actually a DVD cover - it doesn't really matter for the purpose of this post, but it looks something like this:

So I searched for an image of a man in a similar pose. You will have to use your own photography, but doing a quick search this is what I found:

Then I thought - I need a background.... I wanted to get that same low horizon idea from the Capote poster and after a bit of searching I found this:

This was perfect because it stes up a kind of blue colour scheme. Here's the resulting poster with some notes:

This took me about an hour including all the searching and downloading.... if it was all original photography it would get an A... but probably not full marks - even copying real media will only get you so far. It's a bit blank and could be cleverer.

You should start thinking about your film and print work.

Come see me for more detail on how to achieve these effects.