SHORT MOVIE POSTERS

TYPICAL MOVIE POSTER CONVENTIONS

• Eye catching and captivating for the audience

• A large displayed title with a stylistic font a long with an image to support it

• The poster is usually designed in order to draw in its target audience

• A clearly defined genre can be recognized from the poster

• Information about the Directors and also the Production Company are often displayed around the bottom of the poster

• In some cases, reviews and other titles from the company are shown

• Usually some indication of when the film is going to be released with either a date or Coming Soon

FILM GENRE POSTERS

HORROR THRILLERACTIONCOMEDY SCI-FI• One large surreal

image dominates the poster

• Dark colours • Low lighting to

disguise characters

• Small title at bottom the poster

• Bright bold colours• Light hearted

images• Large lettering • Close up of main

character or group usually in funny pose

• Slogan typically used

• Centralised character typically holding weapon

• Slogan typically relating to the film

• Characters stance usually indicates an action film

• Dramatic background image

• Dark background a long with a stand out title

• Use of shadows and low key lighting

• Mainly blacks, reds and whites used

• Unsettled image • Clean text style

• Collage of characters within the film

• Futuristic images • Relatable text style • Bold metallic style

colours • Serious facial

expressions

“GEORGE LUCAS IN LOVE”• A sketched collage of the short movies characters that

resembles that of the Star Wars franchise which George Lucas created.

• The overall colour scheme of the poster is very basic and muted which somewhat suggests a lower budget film, however it also gives an overall underdog feel to the poster.

• The poster does mimic a full length feature posters with the way it includes a title and a long with credits that are set out in the style of a professional poster at the bottom which makes the poster more visually pleasing.

“I’M HERE”• The image shows immediately suggests some form of

love story, and this as a whole would make it more appealing to the movies target audience. Additionally a snapshot from the will indicate the style of the movie more so.

• The sepia tone used on the poster creates a calm feel which suggests what the film is actually like. The colours a very dull and autumn like which could reflect that its not a feature length movie.

• The font is very simple for the poster which puts more focus on the characters rather than the title.

“ACROSS THE HALL”• The image shown on the poster relates to the name of

the film and gives a clearer representation of what the movie is actually about and what genre it is, in this case a thriller.

• The overall poster it self has been edited so that it looks more professional as a result and uses features such a large title to make it look more like a full feature length poster.

• The use of bland as well as eerie colours immediately suggests that some of form of danger is going to happen.

“ACROSS THE HALL” POSTER COMPARISON

Feature FilmShort Film

• The budgets for each film are at different levels whilst they also both target different audiences. The short being more specific in terms of audience while the feature movie is aimed at a much wider audience

• The short film poster contains elements of a normal feature length poster but also less common techniques, such as the names of the people involved and the large title

• The feature length poster decides to use a merged image of the characters instead of a screenshot from the movie itself.