Matt and Reece created a poster for their documentary. They researched Channel 4's style which typically features the logo in the middle right, text on the bottom right, and title above in larger text. They were influenced by the poster for "The Undateables" which obscured the subjects' identities. For their poster, they used faces from interviews filmed for the documentary with white backgrounds. They arranged the faces in rows and added the Channel 4 style text and logo to promote curiosity about what the subjects were hiding.

1. Creation of poster
By Matt and Reece

2. Initial ideas for poster
 We began by researching into different Channel 4 posters to gain an
understanding what style of posters they create and what their house
style/ format is.
Channel 4
logo always in
the middle to
the right
Text
always
placed on
bottom
right
Title of
documentary
placed above in
bigger writing
Background colour always stands outDate and time placed underneath

3. Initial ideas for poster
 One poster that we liked was The Undateables poster. We liked how there was text on the top
which described some of the people from the show but did not say which ones they were. At first
glance you maybe do not realise that they have a disability, which makes you want to watch the
program.
This poster followed the normal
format of the Channel 4 style,
with the logo on the right in the
middle, and text on the bottom
left.

4. Creating our poster
 We thought that we would use the Undateables poster as our main influence as
the documentary has quite a similar subject matter to our own. We used the
videos which we initially filmed for the introduction of our documentary as our
source for images. We filmed shots of teenagers looking into the camera for our
introduction and we thought that these would be perfect to use. Some of these
can be seen below:

5.  We then needed to
remove the background so
that the background would
all be white, so we used
Adobe Photoshop. We
uploaded each photo onto
Photoshop and then used
the magic eraser tool and
selecting the area we
wanted to remove. We
repeated this process for
all faces.
Creating our poster

6. • After we removed the background for all of the faces, we then
arranged them in three rows, in a similar format to The Undateables
poster.
Creating our poster

7.  We then wanted to add text to our poster. We wanted to use the same Channel 4 format as what
we seen when doing our research (with text in the bottom left corner, and the logo in the middle
on the right).
The font we used was ‘Verdana’, as
it was the closest match we could
find to the Channel 4 font. We added
information about the documentary
such as the date and time below the
name as this is what Channel 4 do in
their posters. We then added the logo
in the same position as Channel 4 and
changed the colour to match the writing.
Creating our poster

8. Creating our poster
 We liked the idea of having some silhouettes on the poster,
and having the faces in colour of the teenagers which are
in the specific documentary. For example, for 'Life after
Death', the teenagers featured in that would be lit up on
the poster. We also experimented with having all faces
showing in one poster, and all silhouettes in another.
 We experimented with different colours, and tried using
colours which would make the text and the logo stand out,
but also tried using colours which have connotations of
love or death, for example red.

9. Our final poster
 This is the version that we chose to be our final poster for our documentary. We chose this one as
opposed to others because we like how nobody’s identities are revealed. This was mainly
influenced by The Undateables
poster, as liked how at first glance you
maybe do not realise
that they have a disability, which makes
you want to watch the program.
 The fact that their identities aren’t revealed
suggests that they have something to hide,
or they are ashamed/ embarrassed of
something, which makes the viewer want to
watch to find out what they're hiding.