Poster Idea By James

After researching film posters and their conventions I have created a mock up design for a poster for our film "Trapped".

The elements that make the image and my choices to produce things the way I have can be found in the interactive image map below. 

So after creating a mock up poster I feel I can take some positives and negatives from it:

Positive:

• I feel that the conforms to themes of our film. The graphology relating to the message symbols as well as the iPhone reflect the relationship between Amy and Sam. She is constantly in contact with Sam through phone calls and text. 
• The title of the film stands out, the colours and capitalisation allow the poster to stand out, it engages the audience in my eyes and appears bold - much like the content of our film. It's a shocking glimpse at a very real issue.

Negative

• Although the poster features the two main characters in some ways I feel as if the poster shows a little too much information, do the viewers really need to see Sam lying in a hospital bed. The eagle could also notice the heart monitor has no heart rate on which means that Sam is dead. I feel that if my group was to decide
• The colour choice for the brief synopsis line needs to be changed. The sections in green need to be white, the white needs to be changed to green. "Domestic Abuse" should stand out, white doesn't really make it stand out.

I have also collected some audience feedback for my poster to gauge reaction from some of the audience that have watched our short film.

I think Laura's feedback in particular reflect my thoughts in that the picture gives too much away. However all of them overall were satisfied with this mock up of the poster. I will put my ideas with the posters that the rest of the group have produced to gauge their thoughts and opinions and offer my thoughts on their design.s

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