Final Blog Post

Name: Lucy Stafford

Candidate Number: 8074

Centre Number: 20299

Centre Name: Bishop Walsh Catholic School

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Final Film Poster

Film Poster Plan

I have created a plan for my film poster using publisher. I will use this as a guideline for the positioning of the features on my film poster. Using publisher I used different shapes and colours to outline the position of the elements on my poster. This will be useful for me during the creation process as I will have a guideline to follow outlining where items need to be placed. My poster will follow conventional rules in film posters by using only one image, as I think this will have the strongest impact and it is very rare to see more than one image so I think audiences will be more drawn to familiarity. Other features include a billing block, cats members, title and slogan. These are all elements typical of film posters so I have followed the stereotypical positioning of a film poster.I think the image will be the most important part of the poster as that is what will lure the audience in.

Photography for Poster and Review Page

This is some of the initial photography that I have taken for my film poster and possibly to use in my review page as well. As it has been difficult to arrange a scheduled time to meet with the actor/actress from my film to model for the photography I wanted to try taking some images using the setting as the focus. I still might take some images of the actor/actress to try with the setting images in the future.

I am pleased with all of the images as I was unsure if it would look good with no models but I quite like it. I have used a range of shots, such as long shot, extreme long shot and medium shot. I think this gives a diverse choice for the final images that I choose to use. All of the images were taken at night which is the same time that my film was shot showing continuity in my products. I also like the variation between in focus, out of focus and blurry shots that I got and I think once I have edited the images I will be able to make a clear choice on which ones I want to use.

Film Poster Planning: Billing Block

A billing block usually features at the bottom or top of a film poster. It contains the credits given for the creation of the film. I think it is important that all aspects of my poster look authentic so I will create my own billing block. For inspiration I have found some from the internet to ensure I know the conventions of billing blocks and what to include.

All of these billing blocks have similar conventions. There is varying font size used when it states roles and names to make the names stand out more and create diversity so it looks less uniformed. Also the fonts style is the same in all of them giving me a clear idea of what font styles work in billing blocks. The colours are all back and white which is useful as I know not to over complicate the billing block, it needs to be more subtle and not take the focus from the main features of the poster. At the very bottom there are also other features such as the film website, institutes that have endorsed/produced the film along with the rating for the film.

Planning my billing block:

• Production Company - Revolution Productions
• Starring - Charlotte Liggins and Will Harris
• Music - 2hear/turkitron/PacmanGamer/DirtyJewbs
• Casting Director - LG & Co.
• Costume Design - LG & Co.
• Editing - Lucy Stafford
• Written by - Lucy Stafford
• Produced by - Revolution Productions
• Directed by - Lucy Stafford

My billing block:

This is my final billing block that I created. To do this I typed everything out on word and changed the font and sizing to make it look professional and to give the look of a real billing block that would be used on a real produced film. To the bottom I added the website for the film in a standard bold font I think this stands out well form the rest of the billing block which is important for the audience so they know where to get more information on the film. I also included my production company that I made and an already existing production company as every billing block seems to have more than one institution in it. Then finally there is the rating that i think my film would receive as this is often a common feature of billing blocks.

Film Poster Analysis