Film Poster Initial Planning

Here are some of the images I have used in my draft film poster:

Initial Poster Draft

 

My Decisions 

 

I have chosen to use a blank YouTube page as my background and to place a colourful, naive looking image where the video would be. I have followed the conventions of a film poster by having a large title, which I have positioned centrally. I also have used a Production and Credit Block at the bottom of my poster, indicating the directors, character names and actors, editors, sound technicians and where the film is set. I have also used a laurel in the top left hand corner of my poster which states the awards this film has won, this is also a convention of a film poster.

Initial Drafts of Film Poster

I created three separate drafts for possible final ideas for our film poster...

DRAFT 1:

• This version is landscape to accommodate for the fact that the youtube screen best fits in landscape.
• The credit block has space at the very bottom of the page, but I'd make it fit in line with the edge of the YouTube screen.
• The review quotes and stars to the left could swap sides with the award wreaths to the right.
• I would design a better award wreath and choose something appropriate to be written inside them.
• The title's font matches the font used in the film, but colour should change, undecided on this yet.

DRAFT 2:

 

 

 DRAFT 3:

 

Initial Poster Draft Gemma

In the blank space in the bottom right corner I would place an image of the two characters from the short film.

I have followed conventions of a film poster by:

• having my title as the largest piece of text
• Including a website 
• Includes a Production Block
• Has awards shown
• Mentions other films

What are the style conventions of LWL?

What are the style conventions of Little White Lies?

• Each review is in great depth and gives us a very brief insight into what the film is about.
• Each review will praise and/or criticise each film, giving their views and opinions on the movie.
• The language is very sophisticated and each writer gives us a brief description of the director's previous work and whether this film stood from the others.

• Each review has a varied number of paragraphs. Some have up to 7, whilst others are much shorter at 5 paragraphs.
• The review also contains some historical and cultural context to the film, such as how this film came about.

 

What are the layout conventions of LWL?

What are the layout conventions of Little White Lies?

• Each review is a single page with the main image in a fixed position at the top.
• The review is split into 3 columns with the final one rating each film out of 5, under the titles Anticipation, Enjoyment, In Retrospect.
• The title has the largest font and is a different colour to the text in the review.

• The first letter of the review is in enlarged, bold, and is the height of 3 or 4 lines. It is also, as seen above, the same colour as the title.

What is LWL and who reads it?

What is Little White Lies?

• Little White Lies is an internationally-distributed film magazine.
• It is published six times a year and features reviews, drawings, adverts and photos on a wide range of upcoming films.
• It is based on a feature film, often shown on the front cover of the magazine.
• The film is split into three parts; the lead review, a series of feature articles and the reviews section, which includes interviews with directors and cast of the latest movies.

• A three part ranking system is used to rate each film. The categories are Anticipation, Enjoyment and In Retrospect.
• This magazine is described by The Guardian as being 'the best-designed film on the shelf''.
• TCO (The Church of London) are the publishers of this magazine. They have also published the DIY culture magazine Huck Magazine.
• An online order of the magazine would cost £6, whilst a subscription of 6 copies would cost £29-£33 depending on your method of payment.

Who reads it?

• We are led to believe the target audience for this magazine would be film lovers. It also may appeal to art lovers as there are many demonstrations of artwork inside this magazine.
• The image below is of a Reader Survey taken by TCO. The results were taken from 250 UK readers.

• You can see that 51% of this magazines demographic are 25-35 year olds. This demographic is working people.
• We refined this further to find out that the majority of its readers earn £0-£20k and work in the media industry.