I will start by looking at the film posters for the recently released film, Paul. Both the posters are plain and focus you on the characters. the one on the right is plainer as it only shows three of the casts names, the film logo, when it is released, the link between 'hot fuzz' and 'Paul' and finally a caption on the top of the poster. I personal feel that the left poster is better and draws you in more. This is because there are brighter colours on the left poster and the alien 'Paul' who is the main character is at the front of the shot and it is very obvious what the film is about. I personally believe that the poster on the right looks more old fashioned sifi.
A very good example of a classic horror poster is the poster for 'The Exorcist'. I like that it is almost completely plain, its just the image and the film logo. This wouldn't work for an unknown film, however if there was a lot of hype over the launch then a plain film poster would still work. Another reason that a plain film poster may work is if the consumer sees the poster and wants to know more about it then they can look it up and this way they will find out more about the film than they would have if the poster had the basic information on it.
As well as looking at the classic horror poster of 'The Exorcist' I thought I would look at a more modern poster that is forest based as this is more what I would need for my poster. I decided to choose the poster for 'Fridaythe 13th'. As you can see, the main image is of the killer in the front of the shot with the forest behind him. The angle that the image is at makes it look as though he is looking down on you which makes it scary, which is also influenced by the mist in the background. The mask and massive knife that are with the main character is what makes the viewer believe that he is the killer. At the top of the poster there is a phrase that may be linked to something in the film but it unknown from the poster. The film title is in red which is known to be evil and as the film is very gory then this could represent the blood. The film title and the film release date are both in the same font and colour as they are the most important parts of the poster, the rest are additional information.
Whilest I was doing my poster research I found a blog that someone had created that included a section about movie poster. There was a section where he had rated the top 10 most iconic movie trailer of all time which I thought was a very good source to see what has been done over the years and what I could possibly do. Below is the link to this part of his blog;
Aswell as the top 10 most iconic movie posters, he has also looked at more recent poster. he has done a post on 2011 Oscar Winner's Poster. Aswell as a post on the Top 10 Movie Posters of 2010 which was a good one to look at to see how far the poster industry has developed by using more computer graphics as seen in 'The Expendables' poster;
The link to his entire blog about movie posters is;
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