The document discusses the creation of a film poster for a psychological thriller film project. It begins by explaining the inspiration taken from existing thriller posters that feature a central character image. The document then shows examples of posters for Black Swan and Shutter Island that influenced the design. Details are provided about photographing imagery and editing the main poster image. Text is added for the title and tagline using different fonts than in the trailer for variety. Production information is included at the bottom in a smaller font for continuity with the trailer.

1. Creating my own film poster

2. My idea
When looking at existing film posters in my last piece of research, I noticed that most use an
image from the film in the centre of the poster. Especially in psychological thrillers. I like this
idea, as psychological thrillers are very character based, so in my promotional package I will
need to show the character instead of the narrative.

3. My idea
Extending the idea of using a character image in my film poster, I was drawn to use an image of
a character at the top with something extra below or with one big main image.
Here are two psychological thriller posters. I am mostly drawn to the poster for Black Swan over
Shutter Island, as well both films are quite different. Shutter Island focuses on the island in the
title, and therefore an image of it helps the narrative be hinted in the poster along with the
character above as he is the main character. However the poster for Black Swan just shows the
female character who is the main plot and point of the film. Black Swan is my biggest inspiration
when creating my psychological thriller, so I think I will go with one image to be similar.

4. My idea with inspiration
MY
POSTER
I think these icons work together well to relate to my trailer but also to show a new side of the
story on my film poster. The mask, little girl, older girl and the use of the colour red and I use it
as a theme throughout my production.

5. Photo shoot
Here are various
images I took for
images to use in my
poster.
I took different angles
and ideas such as half
a mask and a full
mask so that I had
more options when
creating my poster.

6. Editing and create main image

7. Editing and creating main image
Final

8. Titles
To create the film title for the poster, I used a different font to the one in the trailer, simply
because I attempted it and found that with an interim feedback, many people didn’t think the
font suited the poster and made it look too ‘student project’ like.
MASKED
Font: Chiller

9. Editing and creating texts
I used a Word Art box to insert the text so it
was bolder, made it to the Chiller font and
changed the colour to match my scheme.
Then all I had to do was to fit the font to
the size I wanted it and the width of the
poster I wanted it.

10. Subtitle/tagline
Because I have a subtitle tagline in my trailer, I am going to feature this in my trailer.
Even though I think it work better for continuity if I used the same font here (Head Injuries) for
the subtitle on my poster, I think the font only best works big and I want the subtitle to be quite
small on the page.
I used the font Agency FB and made the
second line of the tagline bigger in size and
had the word ‘truth’ in red- like the trailer.
I also made sure the subtitle was in the
centre.

11. Editing and creating subtitle

12. Accolades and quotes
Even though in my research I looked at poster quotes and accolade mentions
(awards, nominations, etc…) I decided that because my film is a low
budget, independent film I didn’t want to publicise it as a mainstream film.
Extra info.
In my previous research I looked at the date, extra information, credits that feature in
film posters.
This information is usually very small on the film poster, in a colour so it doesn’t stand
out too much on the poster but so that it is easily readable and nearly always at the
bottom of the poster.
The reason for this information is to provide audiences with information, show who
worked on the film and to provide details for how audiences can find out extra
information about the film. This especially comes in handy if the poster is a teaser
poster.
For the extra information at the bottom of the poster, I will be using the same font from the
trailer and the same information for continuity. This font is called SF Movie Poster