Having now completed the first draft of my short film poster, I decided to deconstruct two of my more significant inspirations to determine what aspects make them really successful and how I could incorporate those aspects into my film poster.
I really liked the film poster for "Whiplash", despite it's simplicity I think it's a really effective poster and both draws and holds interest. The drum kit has been made the central and only focus of the poster which works well to immediately convey the subject of the film. However, to add more depth and interest to the drum kit it has been designed more as an expressive piece of art. This may have been done to reflect the perception of music as an expressive art, which may help it to appeal to an audience of musicians. The colours are neutral, simplistic and compliment each other well, and do not contrast one another to the extent colours like black and white do. The focus picture is then underlined by the film title and additional credits, which again works well to make the drum kit the focus point of the poster. I would like to try and replicate these techniques in my film poster, however rather than a drum kit it will be a picture of the orange.
Fight club was another film poster that I really liked and tried to take inspiration from to create mine. It's been constructed in a very similar way to the Whiplash poster, placing a singular focus image in the centre, and then underlining it with the title and framing it with additional credits. However, unlike the Whiplash poster, the title in this one slightly overlaps the image, which I think is really effective. The Fight Club poster employs a much greater diversity in colour, using darker colours for the background and bringing the light source to the front. Dark shadows are also used to obscure elements of the background, this again helps to place focus on the foreground and the lead character.
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