Ancillary Task: Developing My Movie Poster

In this post, I designed a very basic idea of I could use as a poster for my short film as part of my ancillary task. I had the idea of using school photographs of the characters in the film to create the poster. Also I had the idea of getting a photo of a silhouette to represent the mystery behind the narrator in the short film. For a background, I quite liked the idea of having these picture look like they were pinned on a cork board, however I also liked i idea of having the pictures look like they were randomly scattered across the floor. This is a detail that I can make a decision on in the later stages of developing my poster.   

After completing this post, I have now got a very rough idea of what my poster could look like. This is a good first stage because I can now develop the poster as much as I want but I will always have this first draft to refer back too.


After this, I decided to have a go at logging onto Photoshop and recreating this design using the real photographs of my actors to produce my final movie poster. There were many alterations made throughout the process, such as the title and the layout of the photographs, but I am very happy with the final poster.

In reflection, I am extremely happy with my final movie poster. There were many things that I decided to add and change from my original design however I feel that all of the changes I made make the poster even more effective. I decided to change the layout of the photographs, to begin with, because I thought that my previous layout was a little bit too random and it was quite difficult for the reader to analyse properly. Also I decided to add the writing on the bottom of the Polaroids to add a sense of mystery to each of the characters on the poster. Finally I decided to add pins on each of the Polaroids to give the poster an overall more authentic look which I think is extremely successful.