The Poster

Our poster was inspired by 'compilation' / montage-style posters like Star Wars and the other posters shown below. These posters were our favourite type of poster as they show a lot going on from the movie in one image. The protagonists, the three boys and the villain are clearly shown on our film poster for Samhain. 

This version of The Wicker Man poster is a similar style, but using hand drawn images. I admire the border and symmetrical sky design. I wish to adapt this technique to our poster incorporating dismal colours. To do this, I will draw images by hand, scan the drawings and convert them on to Photoshop, where they can be perfected and formatted in a fashion to grab the audiences attention.

As the film is a horror, I will need to draw some ominous pictures, such as upset skies, desolate islands, and an unnerving portrayal of the Pagan Wildmen. Using colours such as Red, Black, Grey and Deep Purple, will further help the audience indicate that the movie is associated with the horror genre.

Incorporating key images you see in the film is important when emulating this style, the light house, town, boat and the three characters will therefore feature in this poster.

We took in to consideration the dimensions of our film poster, as international standards are used for any poster. In the US, the size for an advertising movie poster is 27" x 40", known as the one sheet.