Psycho

Thursday, 21 January 2016

poster construction / Research

Poster research

When researching into posters I notice the colours are dark and have a bluish colour to it. The text is always entered at the top or bottom this is something that I made use to use at it a common convention to horror posters. In most go the posters the the font is Serif I believe this is because it has a tradition/old feel to it, there are also posters that use a bold font. For my poster I believe that using a tradition font will work the best however I will try different styles, a lot of the titles are white which is interesting.. most likely because its on a black background so I'll be aware of this when designing my poster. I liked the main person on the poster looking directly at the audience because it's engaging which is what I like about it. I like the disperse effect on the Dracula poster I thought it was effective. I have also noticed that the main character is on the poster which is why we took test shoots of the main character who was also the monster in the trailer. I research psychological posters as this is the genre we went for and it has a clear indication that it something to do with the mind and when thinking about my poster I wanted it to be obvious. In some of the posters theres a scene that looks like apart of the film this is showing clear links whilst other posters have a background that relates to the film which also shows a clear clear link.

Test shots (mag/poster) & mise-en-scene

These are our test shots for the poster and magazine. We had half the face normal and half the half with make up on it. This shows the both sides of the movie which gives the audiences an insight of what the main character will look like. It was also to show the characters role in the movie, that she has two sides to her. The shirt that I'm wearing is the same shirt that is used in the trailer this is to link the trailer, magazine and poster together.

The reason why we picked this shirt is because it can show the contrast of innocents and evil. The red can represent the evil in the character (Ms.Chapel) but is mainly covered by white, it shows that she wants people to see her fake innocents but her evil shows through.

We tried varies shoots like mid-shots, long-shots, High angled shots this was to see which worked well and which didn't. I tried different poses so that all shots wasn't the same and we felt that my head tilted gave off a more psycho look to my face which is why we picked this photo.We had my hair tied up and down to see which one looked the best, in the end we felt that my hair up looked better because I look scarier and more weird. We tried filters over the lights to change the lighting of the shot, we felt that the pink didn't give off a good effect for our poster so we tried the blue plastic which gave off an icey/cold look which we felt worked best.