FINAL PRODUCT

FILM REVIEW + MOVIE POSTER

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Film Review

To create a good film review for Samhain I searched through newspapers and magazines at home such as Sight and Sound. I analysed film reviews also online reading Empire, which is the biggest movie fan based magazine world wide. I studied the layout in some Empire reviews and will employ some of the same techniques used by the writers to my Film Review.

Points that must be included on a poster to give information to the potential audience and reel them in would be to have;

• The film's title is a very import feature that must be added to the review simply so that the audience knows what they are going to go and see, using an odd title name could create mystery around the film to draw the audience in, the same audience response could occur using a grabbing title.
• The release date will be included in the review and poster, this is to guide the reader to know when the film will be in theatres for them to see, this is a good technique to employ on a poster or a review as the reader can then make plans to go and see the film on which ever date we will set it to.
• A description of what the film entails but worded cleverly to not give away too much information should be employed at the beginning before the audience engages with the actual written review, this is good to employ early so that reader has a purpose to keep reading whether the film is a no-go or not.
• It must be the end of the film review where the final opinion should be implemented, whether the film is worth a watch or not. The final opinion of the film will be the last part that the audience read, therefore if the review ends on a good note, the audience will be inspired to go and watch it.
• The main characters' actors and the director should be featured in the review to give credit and allow the audience to know who will be in the film and knowing the director can give them a sense of what type of style the film will be.

Making a Film Poster: Inspiration

Before making the movie poster, it would be a good idea to learn a little behind the construction. I found a time lapse video of the creation of a 'The Dark Knight Rises' poster, watching this gives me an idea of home much time and effort should be put in to the design.
This also reminded me that credits should be added  to the bottom, with a date to show the release.



My favourite types of movie posters are Compilation Posters that have depth and a lot of imagery for the audience to interpret.

Film posters used in the Star Wars series have a style which can tell the audience a story before watching it, using such attention grabbing imagery, with multiple events going on at once. This is what I aim to achieve with the creation of our film's poster. 

Star Wars posters typically have the main enemy super imposed in the background, I admire this as it looks as if the villain is watching, which is a direct link to our film. I could potentially emulate this for our poster.

Looking at these montage like posters is very exciting when done right, the posters will shape an idea in the audience's mind which will want them to go to the theatre to justify it. 

 This version of The Wicker Man poster is a similar style, but using hand drawn images. I admire the border and symmetrical sky design. I wish to adapt this technique to our poster incorporating dismal colours. To do this, I will draw images by hand, scan the drawings and convert them on to Photoshop, where they can be perfected and formatted in a fashion to grab the audiences attention.

As the film is a horror, I will need to draw some ominous pictures, such as upset skies, desolate islands, and an unnerving portrayal of the Pagan Wildmen. Using colours such as Red, Black, Grey and Deep Purple, will further help the audience indicate that the movie is associated with the horror genre.

Incorporating key images you see in the film is important when emulating this style, the light house, town, boat and the three characters will therefore feature in this poster.

POSTER DIMENSIONS

Dimensions are an important factor for the poster mainly for advertisement. The movie poster will need to be a portrait image so that it is able to fit in to traditional poster holders located in areas such as bus stops, cinema walls, train stations etc.

One sheet: (27" X 41") is the dimensions of the standard movie poster. These posters are printed on a thin paper and displayed on the theatre walls. The next most commonly used movie posters size is 40" X 60" these posters are larger, but still come in a portrait format. This size of poster is typically used for advertisements on bus shelters and train stations.