planning for poster

Ideas for our poster.

Our poster will show various conventions of our psychological thriller. The colour scheme will be quite dark for our poster, to represent the narrative for our film trailer.

 The poster will consist of Harley sitting underneath a window on the phone, as that then links to the title of the film, ’29 calls’. We will then have the male character looking through the window as this represents the narrative of a stalker.

 We found various posters from other thrillers or films, ‘The uninvited’ poster gave us inspiration for the looking through the window shot for our poster.

 We researched quite a few images on the Internet and came up with various ideas. However we don’t want to make our poster look like a horror but our thriller is quite dark and intense but it’s quite hard to make the difference between each genre. 

We also researched other stalker/thriller genres and a film that came to mind when we were researching was the film called 'obsessed', which has a similar narrative as our trailer.

Most thriller films have quite dark colour schemes like the film ‘Taken’ is also a thriller and uses black brown and grey throughout their poster. This was something that we wanted to include for our film poster, as it’s something that will follow the conventions of a thriller poster.

We may come across some issues when we put the photo of Harley into our poster as we have already created a poster before we’ve taken photos of the characters as a starting basis. It may be difficult because of lighting and the contrast between the photos we will take and the already designed poster background.
As we wanted to get ahead on our poster and start to film we downloaded an image to start off with as a basic poster back ground and then we added a window in via photoshop and started to edit the poster itself, our disadvantages so far is the fact we aren't as good at Photoshop and editing as we would like, but this is a challenge for us both and we will practice our Photoshop skills to edit the poster.
We wanted to go with the traditional thriller themed colour scheme and we have edited the right colours into our poster with the poster quite light and the background darker, giving the impression something is odd. We also had the idea of having the image of Harley on the poster in black and white but having just the phone she is holding coloured in red, this is something we will need to work on but it's something we feel will look quite good and will stand out, as it links with the narrative and the title of the film, '29 calls'.

After researching and brainstorming various ideas, we thought of an idea for our poster that will describe the narrative enough, not to give away the ending but enough to entice audiences to watch the film. Not only with the trailer but also with the designed poster. Using dark colours with the contrast of the grey window we imported externally from the internet, on top of the background of a room we found from a non copyright website.