Poster Design 1

This is the first complete draft for out film poster. As you can see it is not 100% complete as there are a few things that are i am debating on whether or not to change them or not, those things include the position of the film title, the colour of the font both for the font itself and the colour of the crown logo and i am also questioning whether to return the image in the background to colour but that is going to take a little thought. As of right now this is how the poster is but like i said i am not 100% happy with it and the chances of it being changing soon are high.

Brief evaluation and decisions for the draft poster as it is now:
One of the main questions is why does the character have their back facing us, and that is the exact reason, it raises questions. I have done this as it promotes curiosity in the audience and will hopefully result in them watching the trailer and ultimately, watching the film. The second reason is because of the nature of the character. The character in the film is a stealthy and extremely skilled survivalist ( at least by the end of the film he is) and this poster with the characters back facing away from the audience helps to promote the stealth side of the character, not having his face visible helps to do this as well.

The logo and font colour was chosen as it is the same colour used in the revenue and customs logo. As this is a British film we decided that using the logo and colour from HM revenue and customs would help the audience identify that the film is completely British. We has abbreviated Her Majesty's to HM which is also a direct link to the British revenue and customs, but the actual name of the film is the full 'Her Majesty's Wasteland', This abbreviation might also park the curiosity of the audience who don't already know what it means, which will hopefully lead them to the trailer for the film after they have found out what HM means.

You may notice that the clouds are the only part of the background image that are in colour. This is because it is supposed to represent the chemical war that left Britain in the mess that is shown in the film, however this will be hard to identify to without watching the trailer or reading the synopsis of the film.

The text at the bottom of the poster is the institutional information and some of the main credits for the film, typical of many film posters.

Poster Idea

This is one of the first drafts of our poster, we have settled on the name "Her Majesty's Wasteland", the poster accentuates some of the themes presented by this name. Given the large, regal crown in the middle of the poster, the reference to the royal family (an iconic sign of Britain) is obvious, this further outlines the British touch which we are trying to display as one of the main focus points of our film. The character on the poster is looking away from the viewer, this is a nice change to the conventional theme of characters giving a direct look  towards the audience. This makes the character look much more real and gritty, as if he doesn't really care about the fame of the cover. The fact that he is holding his gun in his hand closest to the camera is an obvious hint to the violence within the film. The gun also compliments the character's distraction, it makes it seems as if the character is distracted by something dangerous enough that he may need to use his gun. The font of the poster is very grand, in the way that the viewer's attention is immediately attracted to the title, however at the same time the font also looks gritty and brutal. The themes presented in the font are exactly what we attempt to portray in our film; a grand, melodramatic piece with gritty, cruel undertones. The only thing I don't like about this poster is the lack of background (which is mainly due to it being a rough draft) and the bullets coming from the title, the bullets in my opinion look very tacky and unnecessary. All in all I like the look of this poster as a draft, it needs work but I like many of the features present on it.

Coursework update

We've had some problems with the completion of our coursework in these past few days, mainly due to the rain, as it creates extremely inconvenient conditions for filming. This difficulty has also been accentuated by the fact that our camera man/director has been away in Sri Lanka for the past week and a half. Therefore we have only had a brief window in which we can work, the majority of this time the rain has been intense. To top this off, I have had quite a major technical problem with blogger on my computer, when I try to connect to Blogger it comes up with this message (pictured below) and does not let me write posts. I have searched for a solution to this problem on the Internet, however none of the solutions listed has been successful in helping my problem. I am currently writing this on my IPod, however it is extremely frustrating to use it in the long term due to it crashing unexpectedly. We're going to have to work as hard as possible in order to make up for this huge loss of time