Ancillary Task - Film Poster Draft 1

This is my first draft for my first ancillary task. I chose to produce a film poster for my short in order to help publicise it. Firstly I used a picture of one of my two main actors in my film, Alexandra Wright plays the young Nina. I feel as if the younger the actor on my short film poster the more impact it has on my target audience in terms of the way they may feel towards her. Having a child on my front cover ay also attract a wider audience as everyone has been in her situation, everyone has been a child and knows what it's like. Whereas if I had an older person perhaps in their 40s then it might not attract as many people as some of us might have not lived that moment yet. I also edited my short film poster on Pixlr as that is what I have used throughout my As coursework whilst making magazine front covers, an article and a contents page, so I know how to use it and that it is reliable. 

I started with the main image and I added a layer on top of it to give it the darkness around the edges and corners. I felt that this dark colour contrasted greatly with the main girl in my picture and pinks and bright blues she is wearing, most importantly, I felt that it juxtaposed with my plot. I also used this dark black and greys to my image simply to enhance the visibility of my text.

I then went on to think about my text. Firstly, I decided to use a white font as it portrays the young girls innocence and it also contrasts really well with the dark background to help it stand out to attract the audience. I also used a sans serif font because I wanted to keep a house style as this is the font I used for my text in my short film for the title and credits... At the top I began with short snippets of information containing the main actors names to give my target audience an insight to as who stars in my short film. I then moved on to the title, one of the main attractions of any film poster. I continued to use a white sans serif font to keep up the house type of my short film, however, I used a slightly different font as it looks like as though it has been coloured in even though it hasn't. I picked this font because I felt that the little affect of it has a significant contribution to my interpretation of the innocence of the child influenced by not only the white font but the style. Above my title I have a tag line, where in this case if three powerful words that are said in my short film by the little girl describing how she feels. "Unseen, unheard and unwanted" all sound similar and one by one get more powerful leading up to the 'unwanted", and to think this is what that little girl is thinking makes the audience engage in the plot more and it will hopefully make them want to watch it to find out really what's going on in the little girls life. 

Overall, I like what I have done for my first draft and I will proceed to gather feedback from my target audience in order to know what to add, subtract or change in order to make my short film poster more appealing.