What Is A Film Poster?
A film poster is a poster used to advertise a film. Studios often print several posters that vary in size for various domestic and international markets. They normally contain an image with text. Current day posters often feature photographs of the main actors.
Film posters also need to be artistically interesting, as people buy them to hang on walls as decoration. AS well as them having a commercial purpose to promote an event and product, they also need artistic value.
The main purpose for film posters is advertisement, to 'sell' the film. Film posters have the title in large, bold writing with images of the films 'attractive' actors. The actors names are usually featured at the bottom of the poster to remind you that the film has big-time stars. Designs, colours and fonts are used to appropriately reflect the mood and genre of the film. The poster sometimes includes a catchy parse from the film or a critics comment, to interest the viewer.
Film Poster Examples: Teaser Posters
Teaser trailers contain basic information such as the title and hint to the genre of the film. They are used to interest the audience and excite them without giving away any of the plot.
Main posters:
Main posters usually contain images of the main actors and the film title. The often hint to the genre and themes of the film, for example these films are all romance/ emotional films and we can see this from the use of colour and imagery.
Romance/drama poster mood board:
We have created a mood board on Photoshop to give us inspiration for the composition, colours and font used in similar romantic drama film posters.
WE found that a lot of colours were used, mainly blue and red. White is a colour often used in romantic posters, suggesting innocence and purity.
Close ups of couples faces are used in almost all of the posters we looked at, as the couple are the main focus of the film.
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