POSTER!!!

While thinking about my poster I've had to research a few posters and see how the conventions of film posters were made in order to be informative aswell as eyecatching. So far I have looked at over 40 different posters for all types of film.. These were the conventions I found:

1. The image is usually off centre. This is done because the eye is attracted to the left of a page naturally, this makes the audience view the main image first, making more of an impact and therefor more memrable.

2. There is usually a dominant colour. This is to enhance the mood of the film as well as the genre. For example, most comedy trailers are very minimal, often with a white background. Whereas for a thriller/action movie there are alot of colours, showing that alot is going on

3. The title is usually only one or two words, rarely it will be a whole sentance. Drama's tend to use the names of people whereas Horror films will have a short name relating to a certian aspect of the film.