Poster Research

A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface, or sometimes are even put online in order to advertise something. Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster can just contant just text or just graphics. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative. They're used for many purposes;they're frequently a tool to advertise events,films, protests and other groups trying to communicate a message. Posters are also used for reproductions of artwork, particularly famous works, and are generally low-cost compared to original artwork. Another type of poster is the educational poster, which may be about a particular subject for educational purposes. They're quite easy and cheap to produce and are great ways of introducing things to people; they're particularly good for informing people on new films that will be coming out and is one of the most common ways of advertising films alongside television advertisments.

some posters are very simplistic but
very effective, like this poster 'the birds' the feather is effective because it is a common attribute that is related to a bird, the colour red could signify danger, or it could signfy love and passion, it makes the audience curious of the story line, because it doesn't give a lot away but makes people intreged, it has the title of the film on the poster, and the maind characters name; it also has a bit of writing at the bottom, this bit of writing usually involves the makers and associates of the movie.
If we were to use this sort of poster we would have to put something on associated with the word 'misguided' something like an arrow, and the colour red would be significant because i could represent the danger of the rape.

some are really complex and involve a lot of graphic photoshopping, this poster is intregueing because it makes people wonder about the story line because the man is running, and the floor is coming up, it has a sort of fantasy theme to it. this poster has dark colour and a matalic coloured text; which suggest an action film, it includes the tag line 'MAKE EVERY SECOND COUNT' which gives a little away about the storyline, but not a lot, which is a good way of attracting the audience because they want to know what is meant by that.
If we was to use a poster like this we could have the geek in the middle running away from all the thing in the party, which would be photos of people and bottle of alcohol and drugs, etc.
we could also have a tag line that says something along the lines of 'NOTHING IS EVER AS SIMPLE AS YOU THINK' emphasis the fact that the geek thinks she's been invited to this party on nice terms, but its really because of the planned rape.

 

some posters dont work as good as others, this 'x-men' poster for example doesn't look as attractive as the 'source code' one above as it clearly hasn't has as much work put into it. the design is fine for the film 'x-men' but its not a design that could be changed to fit others, the sillouette of the man suggests a dark side to the man in the heart of the poster, it is simple but wouldn't personally attract me as an audience.

 

others posters involve a capture from the film itself and have the main characters, which attracts the audience and makes theminterested; the poster has the main characters name at the top and the title 'inception' is in the colour red to make it stand out from the rest of the film; the poster has a lot of blue colours to suggest a dreamy type world in the background.

if we was to use a poster like this we would have Robyn Making's at the top as shes the very central character of our film, and we would have the character; alice, fiona, emily, chris and kieran on the front of the picture, in the background could be a picture of the party room; we could again put the title in red to make it stand out and emphasise the danger of the rape scene.