MY FILM POSTER

My Final Film Poster Design

Film Poster Research

              Film Poster Design Process

After brainstorming maining ideas and doing a lot more research into the design of film posters, I have come up with a design that I think will work perfectly as a poster for my film trailer. I used fan made poster by an artist called Michal Krasnopolski as inspiration for this poster idea.

Here is an image of Michal's design:  

Michal's poster is a perfect example of how to hint at the three main characters of a film and how they all are equally important to the story. I want to follow a design similar to this as it works really well to show 3 characters within one image in a new creative way.


Here is a sketch of my idea:

I think it is very helpful to create a sketch like this as it 

is gives you a strong idea of how the poster will look 

and it will make it a lot easier when it comes to creating 

the poster in Photoshop or inDesign.

I have also created a quick Photoshop draft of my film poster just to give me a stronger idea of how the poster will look and if the idea is effective and looks good enough to be a proper poster.  

Since coming up with the idea for my poster I have tried on two separate occasions to take the photographs needed to complete my poster. On both occasions I have failed. The photoshoots failed because I was unable to achieve the results I wanted. 

The biggest problem I had with the photos was the expression on Ular's face and the positioning of the different parts of the costume. I really struggled to placed the sunglasses in a way that showed enough of the lens to edit the images onto. It was also really difficult as Ollie (the actor of Ular) struggled to recreate the facial expression that I had envisioned. A factor that played into this is the fact the I struggled to give him strong enough directions as I found it hard to articulate my idea.

I am going to attempt to use these images to create my poster but I will most likely rethink my idea a complete my poster using a different and new idea.


I have been mentally brainstorming an idea for my film poster ever since we finished our initial ideas for the film trailer. As one of our main characters is a very mysterious man who is inherently sinister I decided that he would be the main subject of my poster. 

My idea is to have Ular in the centre of the poster with his sunglasses on the tip of his nose, snake designed contact lenses in and scowling at the camera with an evil smile on his face. I will then edited in different screenshots from the trailer around him and in the lenses of the glasses will have profile shots of Adam and Eve.

I think that this idea will be hard to pull off as the editing will be very difficult to make sure that I do not overload it with different images and that the images don't look out of place. But I look forward to this challenge as I really enjoy editing and expanding my skills as an editor and this task will give me a great chance to improve.

Here are two examples of a similar design to what I hope to achieve.

Although neither of these two films are related to my film trailer whatsoever, these poster have a similar look to what I want my poster to look like. The Ferris Bueller's Day Off poster works best to try and show of how I want Ular to look in the poster and the positioning of his glasses, but the poster for Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain is a great example of the angle I want to take the picture.

Film Poster Creation Practise and Preparation
I collected all of the information we need to include in the poster (social media icons, our production company name etc.) We were doing this as practise for when it comes to do our official film posters. 

In our lessons we have been receiving some professional insight into how we use an Adobe tool called inDesign. Adobe inDesign is a professional standard piece of software that can be used to create all sorts of different publications. We have decided to use this software as the examiner's request that professional grade software is used at some point in the creations of our coursework project. We spent several lessons experimenting with all the different tools and methods of editing that we would expect to use when creating our film poster. There are an endless amount of features that can be explored and used on inDesign but we only looked at the basics. The features we looked at were mainly to help us create the text of the poster and the different effects that you can use to make your text stand out more.

Here are some screenshots of my experimentation of inDesign

I found that with the posters I looked at they all had everything that is needed in a film poster with slight changes from poster to poster. I focused on the film poster for 'The Book of Eli'. It helped me understand how much information is really needed on a film poster. I looked in detail at the specific cast/crew members that need to be presented on the poster. This poster also helped me gather an understanding of how a poster should be laid out and how there are many little logos that you would not be able to see unless very close to the poster. These small details although quite hard to see, they are still necessary to have on the poster. This research was also very helpful for me as it gave us a strong understanding of what the tag line on a poster is used for and what the tag line should include.

Here are two images of me working with my group conducting research on the type of institutional information that needs to be included on a film poster and the construction of our own personalised institutional information.