Film Posters

Lesson 2 – Plan Your Poster

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Let’s Get Started BIG PICTURE
How to analyse film
poster and create a
film poster plan.
• What makes a good film poster?
KEYWORDS
Title, blocking,
• Pick one of the film posters below, what does connotation, colour,
it convey about the story of the film? layout, meaning.
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
• Would the poster you picked make you want Understand how film
to watch the film and could it be improved? poster are
You have five minutes before you feedback to the class. constructed and why
and how they sell
their film to an
audience.
SUCCESS CRITERIA
Create an idea and
plan for a film poster
and mock ups.

Take your seat. Bag

under your desk.
 What we will be doing

You will be with me – Mr Goodyear until the end of the year.

We will be creating film posters, so you will need to:

Annotate two film posters

Analyse the connotation and meaning of two film posters.

Design a plan for a film poster (Todays lesson).

Take original images for a film posters – in the studio.

Use Photoshop to construct a film poster.

 Analysing a Poster

There are some key elements you need to identify when

analysing a film poster.

Title
Star – name of star and position
Billing Block – names of credit key cast and crew.
Image Background
Focal Image
NOTE
Release Date I would look at analysing a
film poster as it will be
Distributor easier to create your own in
school.
Example

 Title
 Star
 Billing Block

 Image Background
 Focal Image
 Release Date

 Distributor

Where are these elements

on this poster?
 Trailers

Watch the trailers.

What kind of poster would you produce for each?

 Concept

You need to come up with

a concept for your horror
movie poster. To do this
you will need to decide
what is happening in the
film.

The image next is some

suggestions but remember
you need to set the film in
a school.
 Synopsis

You could include what is inspiring the style of your film.

Ideas of how to design horror posters set in a school.
 Brainstorm

Make sure to
include in your
brainstorm the
following:

• Images
• Colour
• Position of title
• Lighting
• Typical Poster
conventions
• Type of poster
• Tagline
Mock Ups

Create the
layout and
content
placement
for the
poster.

Annotate
the poster
to state
what each
element is.
 Images

Answer the questions below to prepare for your photo shoot:

How many photographs will you need?

Who will be the model / models?

What props might you need?

What lighting should you use on the models – consider

who you will make them look scary for a horror movie?