Payne Film Poster

Draft

• The poster is in a portrait view because this common for film posters, rather than landscape.
• At the bottom it has its links and logos of social networking sites which is part of cross media convergence. This is so the audience can find out more information or trailers about the film. 
• It features the release date of 'Summer 2014'. This is to let the audience know when the film is coming out.
• It features the star ratings of some selected newspapers which gave it a favourable review. This is to entice the audience that the critics liked it, which may interest them to watch it.
• The tagline feels like it is speaking to the audience because it has the word 'you' which may encourage them to see the film to out what the outcome is.
• At the top it has the producers name 'Ryan Moorbey'. The audience may be familar with his previous work and may want to see his latest film.
• Glassbox Productions is featured on the poster so it lets the audience the company behind the film and may be interested from its previous works such as The Trophy Room. 
• The image in the background shows the main antagonist in the film. It doesn't feature the protagonist because his identity is not revealed. He is shown with the gun in his hand to indicate to the audience that there is danger, and also that it is involved with the crime/thriller genre. 

Final

• I have made a few significant changes from the draft to make it look better visually and more in detail. The background for example is darker which is used to connote danger and resembles the antagonist.
• The title is bigger than it was, therefore showing its importance. I've added a few effects to it to make it stand out such as the 'drop shadow' and stroke' which also makes it look professional in comparison.
• I have rearrange the majority of this poster putting them in different places, for example 'Glassbox Productions Presents' is placed at the top of 'Payne' so it is not in front of our characters face.
• I took out 'Produced by Ryan Moorbey' and put instead 'The makers of The Trophy Room' because fans of this film may be encouraged more to see their latest work. The Trophy Room is written in the same layout as it was which is synergy which will be recogniseable with fans.
• I placed the reviews in the top left so there was space to put the other information like the tagline and release date, because there was no space there originally. Plus it looks better having it in the same colour as the title because that is the primary colour associated with our film because it connotes danger and blood.
• The awards it got nominated for will indicate to the audience that it is a well made film and they may be more interested to go and see it.