The document discusses the design process for a movie poster. It begins by researching conventions of typical movie posters such as including the title, credits, release date, and logo. Photos are taken of the main character in different poses. Fonts, colors, and backgrounds are experimented with to develop the visual style. Elements from example posters like Juno are incorporated, such as a hand-drawn effect. The poster aims to attract a young audience through its use of bold, bright colors and an emphasis on the comedic "nerdy" character.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products The Poster Eden Taylor

2. Typical Film Poster Conventions

3. As i am doing the main poster for the film i did some research into the main conventions of these and found out that they are; Film title, Credit block, release date, actor names, film certificate, logo for companies involved in the film, a unique selling point, film website and some have a tagline.

5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Posters

9. Mean Girls Poster

11. Juno Posters

15. Starting My Poster and the Conventions I took from my Research

26. The Background Colour Explorations When I looked back at my design stages so far I noticed that I tended to stick to one main focus, edit it and then that would be my final design for that section without really experimenting more using variations. Here are just a few variations of colour for my stripped background so far and what I think of each colour in particular: Blue: Personally at first I felt the blue maybe too dark and overpowering but come to experimenting and using such a strong bold blue shade really seemed to work especially against the rich red within the title. I felt that the blue also brought out the texture within the photograph with all the shading and pencil strokes. Yellow: I firstly decided to pick a brightly coloured background to really stand out to the audience’s eye as well as show in contrast to the dark and slightly dull pencil shaded cartoon character. I also chose yellow in particular as there was a little touch of yellow present within my main title edging around the lettering. I thought that the yellow would look good in the way that it ties everything together. Overall I felt that the yellow when completed looked rather over powering and harsh to the audience eye and was perhaps a little to bright and bold for my poster where it creates such a strong impact that any information would just be hidden or discarded totally.

27. The Background Colour Explorations Red: I can help but feel that everything seems to work together in that I have created and stuck to simple and minimal colour schemes using red and white as my main feature colours, I also felt that the red of the title seems to disappear within the background also being red. I changed the intensity of this shade of red to slightly darken it compared to the rest of the colours and I felt that it helped to a certain extent but still lacked the boost and attractiveness to really stand out to my audience. Green: Although this particular shade of green follows in the steps of the other colours in that it is a bold and bright colour that would instantly attract my audience’s eye, I couldn’t help but also feel it would attract for the wrong reasons in that it is too harsh on the eyes and distracting from the main information and overall importance of advertising my film. The colour green is also generally used to connote relaxing and calming feelings, but with the boldness and intensity of this vibrant shade, it rests more on the harsh and sickly over powering line. Overall I really swayed towards either the blue background with the red title as they seem to not clash but contrast well against one another keeping it modern and fresh colours that would easily attract a young target audience, or keep to my red background that sticks to my chosen colour theme but maybe play around with intensity more and the titles colour.

33. Typical Conventions from research into layouts Main Title Sub-Title Main Image Of Main Character Release Date Credits/ Production Company Logos Slogan/Release Date Star Rating