Design Research Portfolio-Movie Poster

Research 

Creating a movie poster using Photoshop. I was able to do some research on 3 movie posters that i liked and talked about why i had liked them. From there i was able to develop my own initial ideas.

The film Poster for Avatar was made in 2012. The poster has a range of images that are overlapped to create a story just from an image. I like the usage of colours which makes it eye catching to the audience. I feel that the usage of overlapping images is a good technique and that i would use this with my final movie poster. I enjoy the concept of the poster and feel that this has inspired me to use similar techniques.







The Avengers Film poster, With this poster i feel that it demonstrates what it needs to show, for example the usage of characters in action signify that the film is action-packed. The usage of colours are eye catching and bold which makes it interesting for viewers to look at. This is a technique that i would incorporate within my own work because i like to create something that is different and appealing to the eye, which i believe that this poster has achieved. However i feel that this poster is busy and has a lot of things going on with it. I will avoid using to much characters just to ensure that the poster doesn't look busy.



The man of Steel poster, this poster is appealing to the eye because the usage of simplicity. Showing the main character on the front behind a demolished background shows that this film is full of action. Another technique that i would like to use because i want to demonstrate what my film is about using these key techniques. I like the way the character is positioned at the front of the poster. This technique symbolises his authority and what role he plays within the film. However i dislike the dull colours used and believe that this poster could be enhanced with the usage of brighter colours, i do believe dull colours have been used to fit the theme but feel that more work could be done to make this 100% pleasing to the eye.

Ideas

Creating a mind map of ideas helps me generate ideas that i can then later on develop. Overall i decided to create a film poster for The Man Of Steel and create the next hit movie with this. I had also experimented with the concept of Minions from the film Despicable me. 

This was an experiment as i was planning to make a Minion movie poster. Due to not having much inspiration i decided to use this only as an experiment. I had created the image all from scratch using the Minion as a template. I created the Flash clothing all from hand, which i was impressed with. The concept behind this was to create a Minion version of the Marvel films, however i thought this was to complex of an idea and decided to create a Superman poster instead.

Drawings 

Idea 1) This idea was to create a 3D image that portrays Superman smashing through glass. I really like this idea due to the fact that it makes the image appealing and different towards any other poster. Instead i would have his face showing within the smashed out segment to show who the character is and what his role is.

Idea 2) This is an idea showing Superman within the city, This shows who he is, what he does and what his role is. I then thought about changing the name to the Last Stand because i thought it would be a good idea to show the city in destruction. A technique of symbolisation which i picked u from my research. However i don't like the concept due to the fact that it looks simple and is not effective. I will however take the name and the usage of him being in the middle into consideration.  

Idea 3) This concept was to show two sides to the character, a good side and a bad side. I felt like this could do with more development but i do like the idea of having both a positive and a negative side. I feel that all three drawn concepts are a good idea and thought about merging all three to create something more unique and unusual. 

Final Concept

As a final concept i was able to merge three ideas to create one final idea, I feel that this is a unique idea and that it would portray a lot going on with the technique of being simple at the same time. Here is the step by step process i had to make to create the final outcome towards the movie poster.

Overall i feel proud of this piece of work, this is due to the fact that i was able to incorporate three concepts into one making something else more unique and pleasing to the eye. I really like the 3D concept as this is a strength of mine as i have used this technique within previous Photoshop work. One suggestion i feel that i can make is that i could have done more with the text/ Font. The reason behind this was because the Mac i was using did not let me install fonts from the web so to correct this i had to make do with the fonts that were provided within Photoshop and experiment with those.
Overall i am happy with the end outcome and feel that the poster achieves its purpose. I ensured that the image was 300DPI and was RGB.

Step By Step