Poster Research - Alex Lloyd

When planning what to have as our main image for our film poster, we knew we wanted something creative. We didn't want a photo of Milo as he is seen within the film with a big title above and awards in the corner, as this is seen for all posters. We wanted something different, something unique. When planning different ways to do this we all made rough posters, as you can see for Carolines initial poster idea, her image would be a drawing of our character with limited colours shown, this is an interesting and innovative idea which in our view would be perfect for our social realism and would connote that the main character for our film is a young boy. Whilst creating our initial poster ideas, Jack found a bag with a designed image on it, this image was made out of text and was particuarly interesting. As sound is very important within our film due to the monologue of Milo, it being the only way the audience can sympathise for him, we felt it would be a great idea to create an image made out of our monologue's text. I researched into artwork made from text and found these ideas designed by artists:

These are all clever designs and were looked at when planning how we would design ours. The male face would be far too difficult to create with the software we have. One image that was looked at further on was the image of the fist and how the text has outlined it. Our group came up with the idea in having the text from our monologue outlining the image of Milo sitting down eating breakfast, we would have a bottle also to connote alcoholism within the film. I believe this kind of idea would suit our genre well being unique. Another reason for it is it would show how low budget our film is, most short film posters are quite plain in comparison to Hollywood film posters, it is easy to tell which were made with a smaller budget.

Here are just a few short film posters I found, 'Still' is particuarly interesting as they have not included a photo from the film as their image alike our plans. They have relied on interesting designs and have very little colour making the red seem very eye catching.

Underneath is a rough initial idea of what our image would like designed by Jack Storer, we have decided that we as a group thouroughly like this idea, the final is in process.