'Mixtape' Poster - Alex Lloyd

When researching posters of British short films, I noticed this particular one. Luke Snellin's film 'Mixtape' shows its poster as a painting, I feel this connotes its genre being social realist as well as showing it has a low budget. The painting is of a shot used in the film including the main character walking to his next door neighbours house, I like this idea as a poster, it is also in landscape form. The setting within the painting shows a gritty, unwealthy area and portrays its character as a lonely boy.

I like the idea of creating a similar poster for our piece, of which we would have a mid close up of Milo eating his breakfast with his parents in the background arguing. This is one of the most important shots of the film, the blurred focus on the parents hides their identity making the father seem scarier, our main character is in focus, his facial expressions connote his sadness. This would be a landscape poster and would attract a local and city audience in my view. There is enough space for a title as well as awards and quotes. I like the idea of ours being done as a drawing or painting also, it signifies the fact that our main character is a young child but can also help interpret the film as a low budget, social realism short.