Drafting and planning: Drafting poster ideas

When thinking of my ancillary product for my movie poster i have already spoke very heavily about the kind of design  i wanted and what magazine has inspired me to help create my own.

As you can see when i did some basic drafts for what my poster could potentially look like. I very much liked how the hostiles poster was designed. The poster was basically split into two parts and giving of two different colours and so two different effects for the poster. It seems to separate the two main characters of the film.  I thought i could connect this design to my own to my own plot and design. I thought i could use the design to separate the protagonist and antagonist to show that these two characters are different to each other and are clearly at odds with each other. Also at the two characters used will of course be the main protagonist and main antagonist and i wanted to showcase this by putting them on the poster. This can clearly be shown be the plague doctor character being on the right hand side giving it that creepy side to the poster. The main setting of the poster will have the lickies castle as for my plot the lickies castle is something that is featured prominently featured in my trailer so i thought it would be quite a cool addition to have as it has that scary cool look.

So for a first draft this poster is something that i already really like and looks really cool and effective. I think if i were to follow something along these lines i think it would really help the feel and overall design of my trailer. This particular design i believe would also be very effective because of its design,  colour and images.

As you can from the very basic sketch i have included most if not all of the main features of a movie poster, i have the movie title situated at the bottom of the page, the main image, the tagline, and the cast. So ovbisouly i will need to add the credits at the bottom of  the page and some indication of a release date.

So to finish i think this is a really good starting point for the direction of the look of my poster and is defiantly something that i will look at trying to improve and actually implement for the finished look of my poster. As of course this is my first draft for my magazine and so it could change and i will be looking into different designs for how my poster could look.