Film Poster Draft

This is the first draft of my film poster. So far it lacks the main image; the main image of course will be the main focal point of the poster as it’s what grabs the attention of the viewer. I used Photoshop to create my title piece. The title piece was created by writing my text in my chosen font; I then duplicated the layer and added a gray tint to it, with the correct angling I managed to create the blur-like title you see before you. At the top of the poster I have place five reviews from a mixture of magazine and real directors. I decided to add the quirk of certain comments as I felt it would juxtapose nicely with the seriousness of the poster. An example of this quirkiness is the review from Shane Meadows. In the review I have written that he believes he can learn something from me, thus implying he used to mentor me. Creating this false universe around my film adds nicely to the image I am attempting to build. 

I am hoping to improve this drastically as you would assume. The main points I am looking to focus on will be the credits at the bottom of the poster. This is mainly because it is the part of the poster that I feel will require the most work to ensure that it will look correct.

 

For comparison, here is another official movie poster for the film "War" you can see where I have taken the typical conventions of a film poster and added them to mine, for example;

• The title stands out in bold taking up a large portion of the lower screen but not too much, making sure it doesn't detract the focus from the main image.
• the credits at the bottom, they are near illegible as there are so many,
• Reviews at the top demonstrating how my film was received.

Some things my poster could use from this official poster would be;

• the use of text at the very bottom of the screen to tell the viewer when the film comes out
• The name of the actors.