Thursday 15th March 2012

In this lesson, we focused on our movie poster, and created a few drafts by adding different styles of photos, such as comedy and serious to see which worked the best. We had a photo of Andrew laying on a bench and pulling a stupid face. This had comedy, and instantly you could tell that the film would be a comedy, but it didn't match the title and caption, so we decided that we couldn't use this. (See the poster below)

So as we decided, we had to get another photo of Andrew to appear in the poster, we had a photo of Andrew that seemed serious, but as it was Andrew, it appeared funny at the same time; which is kind of what the film is about. We decided to go with Black and White again to add effect, but we also did it in colour to see which we preferred the most. Again we used the same layout as we thought this worked well... (see poster below)

Me and Hollie, felt this photo worked well. However, he is wearing his school lanyard and shirt, so there is no continuity from the film itself, so we would have to retake the photo. Also when Mrs Williams looked at the poster she liked the style of photo, but they layout wasn't good, the producers (etc.) needed to be really small at the bottom like you would see on a real movie poster. She also commented on why it was Black and White and that we should try the photo in colour. So with the photo (above) we did another draft, but in colour, we changed the layout and we added a sweatband to create a bit more humour, to produce a poster that we all agreed looked a lot better... (See poster below)

The poster was starting to get somewhere, and we feel like the template and the basic idea was good enough for the poster, as it was humourous but didn't give away any of the plot. All we had to do was get the new photo.