Wednesday 10 February 2010

Planning : Poster Layout and first draft



Layout 1 :
We chose to use the masterhead at the top to capture the audiences attention straight away, then directly underneath that we have the 3 main characters in 3 seperate collums. Underneath that we have different images such as certificates and the production casting. We belive this is a good layout because it manages to explain the narritve clearly but still leave a hook and the USP which is the characters, should intice the viewers in.

Layout 2 :
This layout is more of your big blockbuster poster that you see in American films, with the main image blown up and taking up most of the frame as a USP. Below the dominant image is the tagline in the centre, with the movie title and then production casting underneath that. We eventually came to the agreement that this would be the layout we would want to try and recreate

Layout 3 :
This again is similar to layout 1 with have the 3 main characters as the USP's but they are slanted diagonally on this layout, while still giving insight into the narative. This conforms to the common comedy conventions we have researched of posters, showing us 3 characters that the audience are going to be hooked on.

Here is a look at our first draft, we like this draft as even though it is not finished we belive we have a good basis to progress on. We like how simplistic it is and how we can create enigma codes from this to keep the audience guessing by not giving too much away already in the poster. We still have to place our main character to dominate the page as our usp and also we will rethink the colours used and try to find better alternatives as they are a bit bland and dont really capture the audiences attention, however the font of clocks to go with our narrative we think has worked well but from our feeback we will have to work on its readability.