Film Poster Idea - Laura

Sam looking in the mirror is a key shot during our film as it shows a moment of self-reflection, and we start to see signs of his repressed anger when he throws the concealer down (furthered with the way we have jsut seen him stabbing the microwave meal). Also, the way we only see his reflection, and not himself shows the way he is 'trapped'. and perhaps isolated as a result of his situation. So an initial idea was to use a similar shot for our film poster.
Originally we had the idea that we could see Sam in the mirror, then Amy can be standing behind him, physically showing that she is the one trapping him. However, we felt this followed too similarly to the conventions of a horror genre as use of the mriror is often used in this genre for a sinister effect. Furthermore, the audience do not know straight away that it is about domestic violence, and they are supposed to be unsuspecting of Amy in the beginning, so if she looks sinister in the poster it will give too much away.

However, we did think of ideas where we only have Sam in the shot. I have taken print screens from the film to show the various different shots we could use with Sam - though of course for the final psoter we would retakes these shots. There is the close-up where Sam is looking in the mirror. This will be the shot I will use for the final design, as it shows Sam is reflecting on himself and his life; portraying the 'realism' genre that our film conforms to. The other two shots are where Sam gets the concealer out of the cupboard, and the other shot is where Sam is opening the cupboard. I will use the first shot as it goes with out theme better than the other action shots.
In my mock design, we thought of writing the film title 'Trapped', onto the mirror because this then reminds him that he is 'trapped', even in the comfort of his own home - which is shown at the end of the film when Amy comes in without Sam knowing and asks for the phone.

  

However, when looking at the conventions of a film poster, we found that the title of the film on the poster, has to match the font of the title in the film. We used an iphone to show these titles, so I did some research to find out which font the iphone uses. "The original iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GSsystem interface uses Helvetica." Typing this into Microsoft word, I found one that looked very similar...

Trapped

 

I tried putting a print screen of the title from the film on the phone onto the mock poster, as well as trying using this font. However, neither of them looked right against the bathroom background as they look to mechanised, so we will keep thinking of new poster ideas.