Poster Planning

Title Fonts

Skid

I Still Know

SF Gushing Meadow

Horroroid

Tagline Fonts

I Tell You All My Secrets

The Dark

Repetition

Feedback

SF Gushing Meadow won the poll for the best title font, so this is the font that I will be using on my magazine cover. Personally, I agree with the poll results, as I think that this font looks the scariest, while still being easy to read, thus making it fit for purpose. The font "I Tell You All My Secrets" won the poll for the best tagline font, therefore I intend to use it. I agree with this result. 

Conventions of horror posters

The credit block is almost always located at the bottom of the poster. By doing this, the information is still included, but it is out of the way of the main image or title of the film.

The main image has to emerge from the page, so that people are attracted to the film. Common images for horror films include shots of an eye or an establishing location.

Some posters have the names of the main cast, although I may not include this, as our actors are not famous actors, and so including them would only take attention away from the films title or main image.

The release date is also commonly included in the poster to inform the audience of when they can watch the film. In our case, including the release date may not be necessary because we are not making this trailer for the purpose of making a profit, however it would make the poster look more professional.

The colour scheme is typically chiaroscuro with low-key-lighting, although sometimes colour is used to draw attention to the main image, as seen with the "Halloween" poster.

Poster Drafts

This the first draft of my poster.

I am going to change it by moving the main image slightly to the left, to make it less centralised. I will also include the film's slogan. In addition to this, I will make the title bolder so that it attracts more attention.