Creation of poster

By Matt and Reece

Initial ideas for poster We began by researching into different Channel 4

posters to gain an understanding what style of posters they create and what their house style/ format is.

Channel 4 logo always in the middle to the right

Text always placed on bottom rightTitle of

documentary placed above in bigger writing

Background colour always stands out

Date and time placed underneath

Initial ideas for poster One poster that we liked was The Undateables poster.

We liked how there was text on the top which described some of the people from the show but did not say which ones they were. At first glance you maybe do not realise that they have a disability, which makes you want to watch the program.This poster followed the normalformat of the Channel 4 style,with the logo on the right in the middle, and text on the bottom left.

Creating our poster We thought that we would use the Undateables poster

as our main influence as the documentary has quite a similar subject matter to our own. We used the videos which we initially filmed for the introduction of our documentary as our source for images. We filmed shots of teenagers looking into the camera for our introduction and we thought that these would be perfect to use. Some of these can be seen below:

We then needed to remove the background so that the background would all be white, so we used Adobe Photoshop. We uploaded each photo onto Photoshop and then used the magic eraser tool and selecting the area we wanted to remove. We repeated this process for all faces.

Creating our poster

• After we removed the background for all of the faces, we then arranged them in three rows, in a similar format to The Undateables poster.

Creating our poster

We then wanted to add text to our poster. We wanted to use the same Channel 4 format as what we seen when doing our research (with text in the bottom left corner, and the logo in the middle on the right).The font we used was ‘Verdana’, asit was the closest match we couldfind to the Channel 4 font. We addedinformation about the documentarysuch as the date and time below the name as this is what Channel 4 do intheir posters. We then added the logoin the same position as Channel 4 and changed the colour to match the writing.

Creating our poster

Creating our poster We liked the idea of having some silhouettes on the

poster, and having the faces in colour of the teenagers which are in the specific documentary. For example, for 'Life afterDeath', the teenagers featured in that would be lit up on

the poster. We also experimented with having all faces showing in one poster, and all silhouettes in another.

We experimented with different colours, and tried using colours which would make the text and the logo stand out, but also tried using colours which have connotations of love or death, for example red.

Our final poster This is the version that we chose to be our final poster for

our documentary. We chose this one as opposed to others because we like how nobody’s identities are revealed. This was mainly influenced by The Undateables poster, as liked how at first glance you maybe do not realisethat they have a disability, which makes you want to watch the program.

The fact that their identities aren’t revealedsuggests that they have something to hide,or they are ashamed/ embarrassed ofsomething, which makes the viewer want towatch to find out what they're hiding.