Poster Cover Image ideas

Most of our blog has been focused on our trailer but today i have decided to give you an update on how our poster is coming along

First of all we have decided that our main character from our film (Sean Oyebanjo) is likely to take precedence on our film poster. This is simply because through our analysis of Film Posters, we found that the protagonist of the film is usually framed centrally on the poster and takes precedence. 

We have been debating whether to have a full portrait of our protagonist or just a close up and so this will probably be settled by a survey which will be given to our target audience and we will take on board their advice. 

There are 3 main ideas/effects which we currently like and may try implementing onto our poster

Figure 1- Greyscale Tpography effect

Figure 2 - Colourful typography effect

The first two , are shown here on the left and right. They both involve placing/using text on a portrait. The difference is one has colours and does not actually cover the face (Right) whereas the other (Left) covers the entire face and is not colourful it is actually greyscale. We like this effect because it is unique and different . In addition it would allow us to place key words from our film on our poster and we believe it would make the poster more visually pleasing. 

However we also realise that there are some issues with this effect such as the fact that it may be hard for the viewer to read the words. Also if we use the effect in the way done (in the example on the right) then it may be confusing for viewers, and they may find it hard to read the other parts of the film as the cover image may take up to much space

Figure 3- 'Half and Half'

We also like the effect used in figure 3 because we could relate it to our own character very easily. This is because on one side we could have our protagonist before selling drugs and then the other image could be of our protagonist once he has started selling drugs. This could be done in a full portrait shot as well. We believe it would be effective as it would allow us to show the differences between our character once his life changes for example, he would dress differently when he starts selling drugs in order to fit the representations often portrayed in social-realist films. Finally it would make it clear to the viewer that our film involves a character who changes immediately and so if they like this idea they would be more likely to read the actual article

We are not certain that we will use one of these ideas but we do like them very much and we may compose a survey to see what our target audience think.

Finally we may take a break from our poster as we are currently focusing on planning, filming and editing our trailer which is taking up a lot of time and effort. However we will try to keep you updated as much as possible