Influences for Poster

For our Media project we had to create a poster that would help us to advertise our film and to look at other film posters that fitted in within the same genre as ours, in order for us to use them as influences when creating our own poster. Ours was a horror film, so we looked at films in the same category and recognised the way they structured the content of their poster, how much writing they used, colours, pictures etc...




Initally we were interested in having just Chloe's eye for our poster as we thought it would be very striking and effective and would grab the attention of the audience. The perfect example here was the poster from the film The Eye, where they also just had an eye with a hand reaching out of it. We wanted a similar sort of idea but with either different clips from the film around the eye or just one key moment from the film in the pupil of the eye. We also liked the idea of reddening the eye in order to create a more sinister look. After trying out a few different designs for this we came to the conclusion that the eye didn't have much relevance to the film and therefore wasn't going to promote the film in the correct way. However we did like the simplicity of it, which was something we wanted to do with our own poster to prevent giving much away about the film.

The second film poster that we became interested in was The Last House on the Left, which we used as the main influence for our final design of our poster. Because our film is set in the eery surroundings of Talbur Manor, we thought it would be more relevant to have a picture of the house as our main image, which is what they used with The Last House on the Left poster. It gives an idea about where the happenings take place, but doesn't give a lot away about the plot and leaves it up to the audience to use their own imagination. Also with this poster, there wasn't a lot of writing, which was something we wanted to corperate into our one too as too much writing can drag the attention from the main focus of the poster, which in this case is the image. The colours used in this film poster are very simple, yet work very well in creating a creepy atmosphere and we were interested in using this same sort of idea for our poster.