We began thinking of ideas for our poster quite early on. We wanted something simple, we looked into different film posters and we all analysed different ones for our research. We came up with various ideas; where the figure could be stood in a window and one of the females stood outside or one of the girls stood near a record player with a candle or a lit match to illuminate her face- we thought we could photograph this when it came to filming this scene in the trailer.
After much debating, we settled on having a big spooky looking house as the main focus. This would be the house where all the drama is set in the trailer. We would use my house for the image as it features in the opening scene in our trailer.
For the actual image, I luckily already had a variety of photos of the exterior of my house that i had taken for my A level photography project so we uploaded them all and decided on the best one for the poster.
We settled on this one, we liked this best due to it having the best angle that we thought would fit well with the genre. I took this image from the ground so it’s from a low angle which makes the house look even bigger than it is from a low angle shot.
To make our poster, we used the program ‘Serif Draw Plus’, we uploaded the image onto it and placed it into the centre but we decided to move it around later on in the making process.
We then edited it to black and white to give it more of a horror feel. We made the background black and we planned to have white text on top so it should be clearly visible and we positioned the image on the poster where we thought it should go.
Here we added the title and we spent a lot of our time raking through all the fonts on the software to find one suitable for our poster and to suit the genre well. Our title ‘THE UNINVITED’ looked best situated at the top of the poster, in capitals to make it more prominent.
We used a brush tool on serif draw plus similar to a spray paint as we thought it would be fitting with the trees and create an eerie atmosphere. We also added the production logos and adjusted the colouring to fit with the dark colour scheme of the poster.
We then added the social media links and a website. We then made a tag line, we decided this last minute, when we were piecing the poster together. We eventually settled on ‘THEY’RE NOT ALONE IN THIS HOUSE’ we thought this flowed well and decided that having ‘THIS’ in italic to make the audience prolong the speech of the word. We also made up a release date; from our research we knew that it is very common for horror films to be released close to Halloween so 8/10/15 seemed a suitable and realistic release date.
The age certificate was something that we needed to be noticeable but not as bold as some of the other text on the poster. We placed it underneath the title and towards the right so it didn’t distract the attention away from the title.
We copied our production credits from the end of our trailer. Having these on a poster is important so the audience know the main cast members and the main people involved in the making of the film. We took our time organizing the layout of the poster, this involved the font and size of all the text and which bits needed to be more noticeable.
This is our final poster, as a team we feel as though it reflects our film well and suits the genre.
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