Evaluation of My Film Poster

In creating my Poster, I wanted to limit the potential 'leakage' of main plot areas of the film, and in doing so, I decided to use symbolism to hint at what the film may be about. I chose the road placement, so as to represent a journey, Grace's and Diana's mental journey in the film. In searching for the location, I scrutinised various aspects before settling on the one used. I feel that the road not only is easily distinguishable as showing a journey, but has an immediate focal point with the vanishing point, which is intensified by the trees following the road. Taking the vanishing point as the focal point the piece, I chose to use it as a feature, placing the hands underneath, so to ensure that the audience would see the focal point, and then read the other information of the piece. I stuck with the conventions of Drama, using a calligraphy font, as to foretell of an emotive drama piece. From my research into potential fonts, I decided on this font, 'English', because it is easily read, but also is reminiscent of aged handwriting, so to represent Grace.

From showing my poster to audience members, they all find the piece to easily foretell of a drama, and the hands symbolising some sort of emotional joining. My audience also saw the film as a 'Drama' genre, most using the font to distinguish this. They also see the mixed cloudy/sunny sky in the piece to foretell of a mixed atmosphere.

I created my piece using Adobe Photoshop, and I found this easy to use, and using layers I was able to easily incorporate all of the factors I wished to. The text was bought in from 'DaFont' and then coloured in Photoshop. If I were to recreate this piece I would outline the white text with another colour (i.e. red or blue) to lift it from the background slightly. If I were to industrially create the piece, I would emboss the film title, tagline and other words around the hand, to draw the audiences’ eye.

I feel that my film poster works well with my trailer, as it retains a sort of anonymity for the main characters, whilst generating a mysterious interest in the piece. I do however, feel that the Young/Old theme is not shown enough between the two hands, and if I were to recreate it I would work on this aspect.

Overall, I am happy with my Film Poster as it creates the mysterious, slightly ambigous theme in the film. It is easily distinguishable as a Drama, both because of the text and the content, and raises most of the themes I wished it to, without making the story of the film too obvious.