Planning: Teaser Poster

PLANNING FOR POSTERS

INITIAL PLANNING AND SKETCHES

• For our teaser film poster, we have decided to research a number of 'The Strangers' teaser posters to help inspire our own work as the poster for The Strangers typically use the antagonist with a mask which is similar to our characters.
• Here are some examples of the teaser posters of 'The Strangers' that include the antagonist's mask as the central image.

We decided that for our film teaser poster will include just the antagonists mask for the central image. Inspired by the posters above, especially the Scream 4 teaser poster, we believe that we need to keep the simplicity of a teaser poster with the use of one large image, title, small credits and date or release.

Firstly, we began with the format and layout of the written texts on our teaser poster....

CONSTRUCTION AND DRAFTS

Photoshop Poster 1 and 2

With our first 2 poster drafts, we used a photo of our antagonists mask, using photoshop we edited the mask, creating shadow and blending the mask into the black background. Following the conventions of a teaser poster, we also added the 'coming soon' title and the year of when the film will be released. With the second draft, we added a blood effect on the credits at the bottom of the poster to convey the conventions of the horror genre. The smudged and blood effect we have used for the written texts will be used throughout our media products to show continuity between each different product. This will reinforce our marketing campaign.

TITLES

 Here are some examples of horror film titles we would like to use as an influence to create an effect and style of our own. We plan to use the same style of font and effect with our other titles in the trailer and the magazine cover. With these two titles I think that it would look effective to merge the two styles together. The use of red and white will also be used consistently throughout our other media products.

Poster 3 and 4

With these two other drafts for our movie teaser poster, we added in the title of our film. Again with the title we used the smudge effect to create a slashed effect. This is done to connote possibly a slasher type film. We also experimented the size of the 'Coming Soon' to see whether the size of it will distract from the actual film title. We decided to keep the 'Coming Soon' to a moderate size smaller than the title. We added the month and year of the release as to keep to the teaser poster conventions, usually teaser posters do not confirm the actually day of release but just the month and year. Then we added a small 'Twisted Pictures' distribution logo because we believe that this logo and distribution title fits in more with the horror genre.