Here is part II of my exploration of film posters. I decided to create a lot of very different posters in order to choose my favourite. 

Alternate Ending...

Jack's costume

Research Into The Genre Of Silent Films

I am experimenting with the idea of silent film in Jack. So I decided to do some brief research on short silent films.

These are two Charlie Chaplin films I found...

Charlie Chaplin in "The Immigrant" (1917) 

Smile, Charlie Chaplin , 1936

I found that there is a lot of focus on facial expressions, and actors almost mime their feelings through body language, much like Jack when he finds the photos of people wearing bowler hats. 

Initial Ideas for my poster... Ideas 1 & 2

I tried out a range of different styles to see what I thought would work for my film. These are only IDEAS, and I created them very quickly.. but here are the results so far: 

 In this example, I experimented with colour, making the poster look quirky. I was very much inspired by the film poster artist Eryk Lipinski. Who designed ther for a Polish film called Zasadzka. Lipinski's use of block colour is very similar to that which I used for my poster.

Here, I experimented with black and white for my poster, as I might put my film in black and white. This poster appears to be very old-fashioned, and I explored the vintage look for posters in order for inspiration to create it...

Firstly, I found this poster for Pulp Fiction, in black and white. Unusually, this poster is a screenshot from the film. My poster was a photograph taken after the film, but is very similar to one of the shots in my film. 

Another black and white poster I found was the poster for The Artist. The Artist is a new film produced in black and white and based in the time of the "Talkies". This is similar to my film poster in that it is designed to be for a black and white film. 

Analysing The Movie Poster...

The Popular Culture Of Film Posters

Movie posters (Key Art) are extremely influential in our popular culture. I am going to explore several areas of the popular culture of the film poster, beginning with t-shirts.... 

Many of film "Classics" such as Jaws and Star Wars have their posters made into t-shirts and other products. In fact, Star Wars' merchandise franchise was worth $30.57 billion in 2012. Many websites specialise in film t-shirts such as TruffleShuffle.com. By buying 'classic' poster t-shirts raises our own social desirability like wearing a Beatles t-shirt or a Nirvana hoodie, it's not neccisarily because we love the band (Or, in this case the film) but because we know OTHERS will like the film, giving us respect for it. Here are some examples of "classic" moie poster tees...

 Moving on to posters on the wall...

Many of us have posters of our favourite movies on our bedroom walls, and we often see movie posters outside cinemas advertising their films. Sometimes, on the ways of our cities, so much so that there has been an uproar against it, officials said...

"Film posters are pasted on every wall, flyovers and underpass, thus defacing the city. The film industry never sought permission for such acts. Now that sticking posters have been banned, this is a crime. We will crack down on everyone who dirties city walls,''

 

Movie posters have also been extremely influential on cover art. For example Marvel's "Deadpool" just posters such as Jaws as inspiration for their cover.

















There are many Movie Poster Artists such as Olly Moss who designs very simplistic film posters, making them into an art rather than a simple form of advertisment. Here are his designs for three of the Star Wars films.