Creating Our Poster

As a group we decided it would be best if we spilt into pairs and worked on one ancillary project per pair, this way we would finish our project on time. Ancillary text one was a film magazine cover, this would be completed by Dilan and Abisola. For ancillary task text two we had to chose between a film poster or a website homepage, this project we be taken on by Chris and Sara. We chose a film poster because we had more experience with film posters than website homepages, as posters are more common.

To start off with we looked at a variety of film posters to see how they are laid out and what they contain. However, to make our poster more successful we had to narrow our film poster research down to just comedy posters to fit in with the theme of our film. Here are a couple of examples we looked at:

• How to Lose Friends and Alienate People -  this poster inspired us by the layout of text, we liked the way the production credits, logo and film website was set out. We used this poster as a stimuli for our own and then decided what logo's we wanted to use.

• Ferris Bueller's Day Off - from this poster we learnt that many comedy posters use tag lines, this therefore inspired us to create our own tagline for our poster. 

As a group we came up with a selection of four different tag lines for our poster, but because we found it so difficult to pick one we left it to a pick to chance and picked one out of a hat. Luckily we all liked the chosen tag line. The selections that we had were:

• Don't let your mascara run
• I can see it in your eyes
• From rags to drags
• Blossom into a beauty  <--Chosen tagline!

During class, we got a chance to see previous students anciliary tasks and teaser trailers. One item we looked at was a poster for the film We got the idea of using eyes as the main focus of the poster from a previous students poster for their teaser trailer called "Redemption". We thought the eyes would be a really good focus and would grab the audience's attention.

The four logo's we choose were:

1. Universal
2. UK Film council
3. Working title
4. TBC

However our teacher informed us that the universal logo and the UK film council association would not be associated together so we changed Universal to Studio Canal. We followed a theme of black and white coloured logo's.

In the end we couldn't decide between 'blossom into a beauty' and 'Don't let your mascara run' so we left it to a vote.


We was unsure about what to include in the production credits so we google'd 'production credits' and used this image as our guide, changing the names to make it relevant to our film.