Final Movie Poster

PLAN

ORIGINAL IMAGE The image i chose was from a photo shoot with Edit Magazine earlier this year. In Photoshop i slightly darkened the image and cropped it to fit the poster dimensions, leaving room in the header and footer for important information such as the tag line, actors names and title.

I decided to keep the ripped paper background from my previous poster experiment as it subtly connotes a theme of the movie. The only thing i adapted was to rotate it the other way as i feel the text flowed better coming in from the left as that's where the eyes are naturally drawn. 

Again, the font was carried through from my previous poster. I think the bright pink title works really well being the only flash of colour on an otherwise completely black and white poster. It makes a statement and matches the message of the movie itself.  

Putting the most important bits of information in a bold font will attract viewers and therefore entice them in as they may already be fans of the book or previous successful movies from the same author. The same goes for the actors names; if fans can see that their favorite actors are involved in the movie then it will be an immediate selling point.

Movie Poster - Experimental

PLAN

ORIGINAL IMAGES

 
BLURRING THE IMAGES
Instead of having two separate block images i took inspiration from other romance movie posters such as The Last Song and The Best of Me and blurred the images together.

The movie revolves around the main characters, Rosie and Alex writing letters to each other so i wanted to incorporate this element into the poster somewhere. I decided to use the torn paper effect as the background for my title.

  SELECTING THE FONT

From looking at other romcom movie posters i found that pink was a commonly used colour. I wanted something quite bold so i chose a bright fuchsia which i think works really well in connoting the fun, romantic tone of the movie.  

Because of the busy background image the strap line was getting lost and was fairly difficult to read. To solve this i had to create some sort of background for the text. I used the ellipsis tool to draw a simple white oblong shape which i then feathered around the edges and lowered the opacity to 60%. The text is now clear to read without the background being too much of a noticeable distraction.