Film Poster Process

To begin the creation of my film poster I began by placing a plain black background in order to insert my films title '#disconnected' which was placed at the bottom of the page.

The film title '#disconnected' was placed here because after researching into different film posters this seemed to be a conventional place for it.  As for the font and design of the title the colours are to represent Facebook, along with the font which is also the font Facebook use on their logo.  I used these fonts and colours as the trailer for this film poster is related to social media and Facebook plays a large role throughout.  The word 'connect' was also made italic and blue as I waned it to stand out because I represents, again, connecting through social media and also the characters being connected through friendship.

I then started to play around with the background by making it gradient in order to not make it look so plain and dull.  However, when I added the actors names on top you were unable to see them as I wanted the names to be the same colour as the title to keep the colour scheme flowing.  I also added boxes as an outline of where I wanted to place my images.

I then moved the gradient in order for the names to show which was successful.  However, the white in the gradient is now underneath the 'ed' of the title which may be hard to read.


































I then added a billing block that my group created and placed it a the bottom of the page, again, another convention of a film poster.  However, because the background of the billing block was black and the gradient falls lighter at the bottom of the poster.  The result of this not blending doesn't give it a professional look.  To resolve this issue I changed it back to a plain black background so that it is the same colour as the billing block and displays well.  I then added my first image of an anonymous Facebook icon as it reflects the anonymous user trolling the friendship group.  It is also placed in the middle of the poster as it plays a large part throughout the film.

I then added dotted lines around the remaining boxes and connected to the anonymous icon.  This is also to reflect the Facebook as it is used as a connecting feature on the home page and also reflects all the main characters connecting with each other throughout the film.

I then added the remaining images to the page.  Each image of the character was made to be as if they were all in the video call.  However, I feel that some images are too posed and need to be retaken, they also don't show a shocked reaction like I had originally planned.