Rough Posters

By taking some screen shots from my film I am able to create a rough idea of what I want my posters to look like. Of course the shape of these posters wont be the desired shape due to the quality and the fact I'm using screen shots but it gives me a basic idea on editing and what the poster may look like when real photos are taken. I will still need to add things to these posters such as billing blocks, logo/company name and so on but this will start to give me an idea of what I want my posters will look like and gives me a chance to play around with different colours and layers before settling on a final design with the real images.

My first idea was to take a picture not of the main character but the main prop in the story, the item that causes all of this to happen. The book and pencil is what The Girl uses to create her army to defeat the Shadow Selves and therefor plays the biggest part in the film. I wanted to keep the background simple to leave the audience wondering and imagining what the film could be about and therefore leaving them intrigued. I spent a long time deciding over which font I wanted to use for my title. I needed it to fit with the style and plot of the short film without it becoming too messy. Some fonts where too elaborate and some where too difficult to read, but this one seemed to fit the bill as people can read it clearly and matches the idea of sketching. I also needed to think about a slogan or tagline to make people remember my short film but also to give a little more information on my short film. I had thought about other taglines such as 'Sketch yourself free' or 'Drawing is the salvation', but I felt it needed to be more about The Girl's imagination instead of drawing as that is already given away in the title. I then applied this all to some screen shots to get a rough idea of what it might look like.