This document summarizes research on movie posters. It analyzes posters for The Hunger Games and Red Riding Hood. For The Hunger Games poster, it notes the use of Katniss' familiar image but finds it a bit boring. The Red Riding Hood poster stands out for its use of bright red against dark colors and sub-line text that draws the viewer in. Both posters effectively use a dark background and shading to connect the characters to the atmosphere. Based on this research, the author plans to keep their own movie poster simple, show key characters, and use a shadowed, dark atmosphere.

1. Movie Poster Research

2. This is a character specific
poster, it has the characters
name above of the film name.
They have done a few of these
for the different main characters
of the movie.
Movie title, with the same logo
from the movie
Coming soon date clearly see
The image of Katniss they have used helps
to create a familiarity with the character
before the movie is released but also they
have used the lighting on the image has
been done well because there is a
shadowed part of her which helps to
create mystery.

3. ‘From the director of...’ this caption makes
the film have a larger audience because
people who liked his other films will want
to come see this one too.
Sub-lines are connected to the movie and the
viewer of the poster drawn in to it more.
The forest background really stands out and
makes a earring feeling to the overall poster.
We can not seen the girls face
which adds a element of
mystery to the overall poster.
The use of the red
cape in the a dark
environment helps
to make the bright
red really stand
out.
The title for the movie has
been done in the same red as
the cloak to make it stand out.
The release date (but there is no day that it will be out on)

4. Looking at these helped me to think about what I would like to
do in my own movie poster, ready so that I can make it.
Hunger Games: I found this poster a little boring if I am honest, though it looks
very pretty I think that they could have done a poster that could connect to the
movie more.
Red Riding Hood: I really loved the way that they used the colour of the red
against a the darker colours on the poster, it really makes it stand out and I
really like the use of the sub-line text on this poster.
For my genre of film both these poster showed the use of a dark background
and the shading helps to join the dark background together with the images
used for the images of the characters.
From this research I have decided that for my own Movie Poster
i am going to try and keep it simple, show the key characters in
my trailer and try to keep the atmosphere somewhat shadowed
and dark to go with the one is have looked into.