For my next task I had to create my poster. To begin the research for my poster I looked at a variety of existing posters from different genres to get a sense of the conventions.
From analysing these posters, I found that all posters share the same conventions regardless of the genre. For example they may have a tagline, billing, a dominant central image, certificate and so on. Once I had decided to focus on a horror/mystery genre, I decided to look into the genre conventions so that I knew what to include on my poster. I looked at them in terms of font, colour layout and many more.
After this, I decided that background colour of my poster should be black and plain like the majority of horror posters I looked at. I wanted the colour of the font to either be a red to represent blood. From my research I knew that the serial killer should be on the poster.
Once I created made my billing, decided the name of my film, and the release date, I started playing around with colours and layout with the influence of the other posters that looked at in the same genre.
My poster contains the film's central antagonist, as was common in the genre posters I had analysed, whilst also making reference to other films from the genre. I also made reference to horror in the tagline and incorporated a bold white text.
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