The document discusses the process of creating a poster for a student film project. It describes how the students planned different photo shots but ultimately chose a spontaneous picture of the actress Freya sitting on a train platform. The image captured the psychological thriller genre of the story. The finished poster included conventions like the film title, actors' names, and tagline. However, the image was heavily edited, distorting the photo and making it unclear. The editing was meant to represent the main character's distorted mental state. Additionally, the colors used did not properly represent the thriller genre and were inconsistent between elements.

1. By Chloe Chorlton

2. Planning
 We planned to take many different shots when creating our poster, so we could
choose the best photograph and to make it. These are the planned images with the
real image.

3. Choosing Our Shot
 In the end we took a spontaneous
picture of Freya sitting on the
edge of the platform. While
taking the planned photos and
being in the location, more ideas
grew in our head. The genre is a
psychological thriller with a story
about a girl and a train track and
the image of Freya that we shot,
captured this perfectly.

4. Finished Poster
 This is our finished
practice poster for our
film titles – Tracking. It
includes all main poster
conventions and is edited
well.

5. Analysis
 The poster
contains the
conventions such
as actors names,
reviews, film title,
main image,
tagline and billing
block except for
one; the release
date. These are all
placed in the
spaces that they are
put in any other
conventional
poster. Which can
be seen in this
image to the right.

6. Analysis
 The image however is edited and
modified greatly which takes away
the simplicity of the photograph.
The way we edited the image was
to create a distorted feel and that
you cannot clearly see what is
happening which is how the main
characters brain is working. The
effect used also created an older
feel to the film at that it is set in a
time before the present (2014).

7. Analysis
 The colours that are used also do not
represent the genre properly. The image
contains many light colours like white,
pink and yellow. This takes away the
thriller feel to the film so darker colours
should have been used. We should have
also used the same colour font
throughout as the title is white, actors
names are black, tagline is yellow and the
billing block is a combination of black
and white. However, the yellow tagline
does stand out and will be remembered
by the audience as it links to train safety
in which everybody would see at a railway
line and is now associated with the film.