Poster Ideas

I have designed 4 poster ideas that are drafts for our poster which is part of our promotional package.

The first design on the left is an image of daisy (our main character) looking into the mirror. This poster is effective because her reflection in the mirror is different to reality. The reflection will show her to be a 'normal' teenager so she sees herself as something other people do not. Her reflection will be an innocent young girl who is being taken advantage of and she is being betrayed. The reality will show her to be mentally ill with blood on her face, her hair messed up and greasy, her eyes very dark. Overall she will look extremely scary. The mirror we will use is an old mirror that I (Gabby) have that has cobwebs and dirt all over it. This will help with the mise en scene of the trailer as it has horror connotations and it an antique.

The second design is our favourite. This shows a handprint (which will be in blood or steam, we haven't decided yet). The handprint will be on a window and Daisy will be standing in the background. This is very relevant as the handprint has scary connotations and the blood or steam will look very creepy, meeting the needs of our genre and making it obvious to the audience what type of genre it is. The tagline is also very important so it needs to stand out on the poster. As the poster will be very dark, we think the writing for the tagline should be in white as it will stand out and the colour will contrast with the narrative.

The third poster draft on the left will be an image of a red wall with blood handprints on. We came up with this idea as we like the handprint on the window idea and thought this would be effective aswell. The tagline which is located in the middle of the poster stands out although looks oddly placed. We may try this idea zoomed out so there are smaller handprints on the wall.

The fourth poster draft is a zoomed up picture of an eye which I got inspiration from a poster I found of a film called 'skeleton key'. In the middle of the pupil we would use photoshop to input fire. This is relevant because in our narrative, at the end of the film the audience find out that our main character started a fire to kill her best friend.

(The skeleton key poster)