As you can see we based our simple draft poster which you can see further down on the blog on Clint Eastwood's brilliant 2009 film poster for "GRAN TORINO". The conventions for a poster like this are:
- "COMING SOON" at the bottom of the page shows it is still a while until it is released but builds excitment.
- "CLINT EASTWOOD" at the top before the title showing off that the film has a big named Hollywood actor in it which of course gets the lookers attention.
- The titles in a large golden font which is significant consdering everything else is dark and dingy in terms of colour.
- The list of actors, producers, all important crew members and the directors name can be seen under the title but it is always very small writing and faint because they do not want the small print to attract the lookers away from the star and the title. Also at the bottom the Warner Brothers logo is showing which is standard for a film poster shows the film companies involvement.
- Finally the actual picture is a side profile shot almost like a silhouette of a warn old face looking in the distance which create a sense of enigma "what is this about?".
I like this poster because it creates wonder and mystery the lighting is also very cool. We will create a similar look withour film poster.
It's unusual to have a credit block in a teaser, as we have here. Actors' names are usually absent too, but Eastwood directed the film as well, so his name could be included as director or actor.
ReplyDeleteA great overall analysis of the poster, the light highlights nicely over the features of Eastwood's face. It'll be good to see how you take this into your own poster. Definitely agree with the whole 'enigma' concept also, i could see this working well with what you want to achieve.
ReplyDelete-Nathan