discussing layout conventions in detail. Explain how my posters will be presented. Made reference to fonts, colours, imagery, type of camera shots, picture placement etc. linking to conventions of drama/ romance posters

1. My (rough) ideas:
• Film concept no.1: Terry & May
Narrative: a newly coupled pair start to get intimate, a week passes,
and Terry (our main character) doesn’t hear anything from May (her
partner)- this is where we pick up from. Terry finds May at the church,
Someone's recently passed and along May there's very few attendees at
the reception. She starts pestering her for answers, why hasn't she been
responding to her texts? Who has died?
May barley responds, either tearing up telling Terry to go away or flat
out ignoring her.
She leaves abruptly and Terry follows her out. We go on with May as she
walks further down the street and makes a turn into a neighboring
cemetery. We see with her a few men working on a grave and find the
grave-stone has Terry’s name on it.
• Film concept no. 2: Killjoy (?)
Narrative: a clown performs but is lacking energy and between shots of
him dancing and running around, blowing up balloons and scaring children,
there's flash-backs to a car accident that killed his child and wife.

2. Zooming in on idea one; Terry and
May
• I've decided to do Terry and May as it fits more into the romance sub genre
than kill joy ( I couldn’t really build on anything there).
• As a concept I don’t think there's nearly enough LGBTQ+ representation in
film and media as there should be in this day and age- nor discussion of
subsequent internal homophobia that is delt with by people in the
community, so my first idea felt a little more relevant in that respect.
• Moreover, I feel this will more-so hit the brief as the target demographic
that the brief intends for (that is teens and up) will hopefully resonate and
be more responsive towards queer representation and the drab story it
takes place in- something a little darker than average teen rom coms today
that have shown to not go down so well with mass audiences.
• The themes of love, death, self-hatred)- deep heavy hitting topics I feel will
be interesting to incorporate into a visual design than a simple rom com of
two people standing back-to-back or a hero running from an explosion in an
action and more so (in my opinion) fits channel four’s indie, cynical
catalogue of movies that they stream and produce.

3. Colour mood board:
For my colour mood board I took heavy
inspiration from my analysed posters (
persona, Mikey and Nicky and lobster) as
the simplistic yet effective colours not only
allow focus on the main imagery but also
sets up the tone of the film, where deep
reds or blues set up the horrific or woeful
tone of a film, I hope that the beige(y)
greys and whites give off an isolated and
mystifying attitude.

4. Photos mood board:
For my main image I wanted to
emulate the intimacy of the
relationship whilst pertaining to each
character’s ‘loneliness’ having the pair
physically close but never looking at
each other.

5. Fonts mood board : the type of fonts I wanted to
utilize consists of thin flowing
text that’s embolic of
handwriting for a romantic
intimate effect for the tagline
and a thicker but tall font to
grab attention for the title

6. Colours/ images and font (sum up) :
• I wanted to go with neutral/ soft colours to pull more focus onto
the subject matter, the use of solid, bland colours makes the
characters really stand out, and allows more focus into their
relationship dynamic. It more so adds to the ‘indie cult’ theme I
want my film to have, emulating the slow burn/ intense dramas
shown on 4- trainspotting/ the love witch etc.
• The images I'm looking at are inspired mostly on the composition
of posters like persona and talk to her, it effectively conveys the
pairings relationship whilst incorporating interesting and
captivating imagery. I wanted to incorporate an ‘one in the same’
metaphor that alludes to a deeper meaning/ twist to the tale.
• font wise I was looking towards more flowy scrawny text most
commonly associated with ‘romance’- since technically it is a love
tale- whilst being ghostly and faint with the thinness of the text-
more so embodying the pairs withering love.

7. Sketches ( getting ideas down on paper)
Wanted a running theme of the
pairs colours correlation
Red: terry ( more domineering
and intimidating; open with her
sexuality and feelings)
Brown: May (more neutral, calm
and conserved; reluctant to
move forward or accept herself)

8. Development on the
landscape poster
(Reference)
Inspiration:
Title
Billing block
Date Age
rating
Logo
Developing sketches
digitally

9. Development on the
theatrical poster
Inspiration:
Early sketches Title
Tagline
Date
Logo
Developing sketches
digitally

10. Development on the
teaser poster
Inspiration: persona poster/
blue is the warmest colour
(2013) (and the eventual
colour scheme from talk to
her (2002))
Early sketches & final
sketch up (reference
photo)
Early sketches
Title
Billing block
Tagline
Logo
Age
rating
Date
Developing
sketches
digitally