week 4

This week I have been looking at various posters paying particular attention to design and how the font is featured. What particularly interested me was a type of poster called Chirashi which is printed in Japan. The posters are typically a reduced image (255mm by 180mm) of the standard promotional film posters and feature promotional photos and a synopsis of the film on the reverse side. Creating my poster this way will not only allow me to design a poster as I originally intended but I will also be able to use font as an aesthetic feature more than if I was to produce a standard cinema poster. At the moment I have two images that I could potentially use on the front, however one is an image I made using Corel painter and it does not exactly fit with the idea of using the subject matter of the short film I am making. However I am quite satisfied with appearence the image and feel that it would make an excellent poster for a horror film and I may still choose to incorporate this into this project. I have several ideas of what the layout of the reverse side will look like however it also depends largely on the images I include, at the moment I will work on getting these done and then I will work on merging the images and text together using InDesign.