Poster Drawing Drafts

This was the first idea for my film poster with two close ups on my main character with two different expressions, one where he looks menacing and the other where he looks peaceful. The secondary images are there to support the main images and the different sides of this one person that they represent. The idea of the title splitting two characters was something that I liked from other film posters such as 'Shifty' as I believe it help the audience distinguish between the two and the different personalities that they represent.

An idea that I also enjoyed is visible in the poster for 'Shifty', the main image is of two males sitting against a wall of some sort. This strong urban look is something that I want to portray in my film poster and therefore, having my main image in front of an urban backdrop of some sort would really exemplify the mood and themes of my film. 

Analysis of Film Magazine front covers

The poster seen above is of an issue of Sight and Sound where instead of the main character being the U.S.P and the main image, it is the director or producer of the film. This is something that his given inspiration for my magazine front cover as I plan to have an image of me the director of my trailer on the front cover. The bland, plain background is simple yet effective as it gives a nice cool, classy look to the magazine. Again perhaps I will look into having a relatively bland background so that all the attention is put onto the unique selling point of the magazine front cover, that is to say, the director or...me. The text seen above gives a rather urban look with serif fonts being used, this is something I will aim to use on my magazine front cover as the theme of my trailer is a gritty, low-budget British one. Moreover, the colour palette again resembles that Britishness with blue, red and white being used which represents the colours of the Union Jack. Finally, the masthead with the bright yellow and with it being present on the left third of the page, is something that will make it stand out when lined out on the shelves. I will therefore try and use a technique similar to this when I create my masthead.