This is it: My final draft for the poster. I used the posters that I had researched previously to put this together. The use of low-key lighting on Neeson's face adds a sense of enigma to the piece, and having half of J's mask does the same thing.
The red title with the bloody font tells the audience what kind of film this is, and the white text tells us that this is a very serious film. The tag-line 'Where is he now?' creates tension ads it implies 'he' is hiding and 'he' is possibly dangerous.
I also added some reviews at the top, by The Guardian and Timeout, to appeal to our target audience. At the bottom there is our production company logo (the hills) and also logos of Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, which tells the viewer where to go if they want to see it.
Good design Greg. If you take this forward, I suggest some changes below:
ReplyDelete- lose the capitals in the middle of review quotes
- make the font for the title more blocked (thicker) if you can, without losing the font style you've chosen. It might not do its job so well if the style is more delicate like this.
- consider changing the tagline - it's a bit too unclear at the moment as to whether your tagline here refers to the antagonist or protagonist (or is this deliberate? If so, this needs explanation on the blog).
- the billing block is too big - look at real examples and note the small size (usually quite difficult to read, even in A3 size)
- the font sizes between the name of the actor and the tagline need to be more different (I suggest the actor larger?)
- I like the idea of the poster posing a question - could you explain the benefits of this for the blog?