Characters by Shelley Brookes

Laura-Jane

Lily Thomas

My Poster by Shelley Brookes

This is the poster i designed for our film. I used this background to imply confusion as it uses a range of monochrome colors. I then used a shot of Emily-Jane and Lucy sat down together. I made Emily-Jane in black and white and left Lucy in the normal color but decreased the lightness to make it more dull giving a negative affect and making the audience think they aren't from the same time. I then put a picture of Lucy in the top right corner as she is the main character and also she appears to have a look of shock or horror on her face and made the image look worn so it puts across it is an old photo. This should make the audience think it is a horror film. The certificate of the film is placed in the bottom corner to inform people on how old they must be to watch it and to the left of this is the names of the two main characters over the shot of them sat down. Finally, I put the name of the film central and in the largest font so that it catches attention as this is important. Then underneath in slightly smaller writing I put a tag line to go with the name.

Poster Design By Lucy Davies

To create this poster for our film 'The Lost Hart', I used Adobe photoshop, enabling me to use effects and images of my choice. To begin with, as a group we chose images that we thought were suitable for all of us to use in the poster. I thought it was vital that both main characters were used in the poster, so that the audience have a better idea of who to expect in the film. This is why I used a large image of Lily's face and a figure of Laura-Jane, including their names at the bottom of the poster enabling the audience to recognise who they are. If this was a Hollywood film poster, specific A-listed actors could influence people to go watch the film, which is why their faces are used. I wanted Emily-Jayne to be in the background, distorted, so that the audience were under the impression that she could be a ghost. Influenced by the film poster I analysed, I decided to slightly blur her face like the young girl was in the Uninvited poster as it created some sort of mystery.

I also included a tagline 'chasing her ghost...' to leave the audience in suspense, and by copy and pasting it, it gives the implication that someone has repeatedly written it down in frustration.

The background I used highlights the main parts of the poster making the audience focus on specific aspects. The title is the biggest piece of text on the poster so the audience won't get confused between the tagline and the title. I also wanted to smudge all the text used on the poster to create a ghostly effect that I have used throughout the design on the poster.

Furthermore, putting the rating of the film on the poster was a vital piece of information that needed to be added so that the audience knew what age it was suitable for.

My Film Poster By Matthew Helliwell

This is the poster I have made for our film, The Lost Hart in adobe photoshop.

I decided to include the two main characters Emily Jayne Hart and Lucy Caskan in the poster. Most importantly their appearances in the poster is very different to in the film. Lucy's face is half lit as I have burned the other half so her face is half lit, this could give her the look of having two sides to her and Emily-Jayne is brightly lit and also I created a ghostly feel to her appearance by scorching marks into her dress to make it seem as though light is flowing through her easily, it gives her the look of being semi transparent. Also I increased the brightness of her skin colour to make her seem more pale and bright. More ghostly and more eerie. The background I used is of a broken mirror, and the frame is very rusty. I tried to symbolize the difference in their characters through colours, Lucy Caskans face is cast in a dark shadow whereas Emily-Jayne's face is shrouded in bright light, which also gives a ghostly feel. Because of these colours I also wrote the names of the actors in contrasting colours to contrast the difference in the characters. The title of the film is written in Copperplate, because I wanted a plain look to the writing, but I added a shadow effect on the last word Hart, spelled according to Emily-Jaynes last name but is a play on the word heart. The tagline "Chasing her ghost" is written in Edwardian handwriting like Emily-Jaynes Attire I also made the last word "Ghost," Overlap into Emily-Jaynes body.

My Influence came from the poster for the film A Beautiful mind, where a shadow is seen in the background amongst a blur of colours. The film poster draws attention to the main character played by Russel Crowe who also has a slight shadow covering half of his face.

To conclude, what I wanted to achieve with this poster is the contrast between the two characters. I achieved this by contrasting the colours wrapping around them I also wanted to give Emily-Jayne a ghostly feel. I think I achieved both of these things.

My film poster by Hayley Outhwaite

This is my poster that I have designed for our film 'The lost Hart.' I chose to include both the main characters Emily-Jayne and Lucy Casken on my poster as they are the main focus of the film. The image that I decided to use for the background of my poster is a black and white patterned one which I felt added an eerie feel to my poster.

The section of my poster that I feel is the most effective is the highlighted area surrounding Emily-Jayne. The reason I chose to use this effect is because as Emily-Jayne is in fact Lucy's imaginary friend, the light behind her is a a good indication to the audience that there is something special about this character.

Even though the lettering of the title on my poster is set in the same colours as the background that I have used, black and white, I still feel that it stands out due to the fact that I have given the letters a bold outline and also made the letters as white as they could possibly go in order to make them stand out even more.

Extra Poster Research By Matthew Helliwell

A Beautiful Mind is a film, like ours, which uses a form of schizophrenia as a topic. Early in the film John forbes Nash (the main character) contracts paranoid schizophrenia early on in the movie and this interferes with his life and his family. Nash also refuses to take his medication.

These are similarities to our movie where our film uses a form of schitzophrenia, but instead of refusing to take her medication, Lucy simply forgets to take them. We also see how it affects the people around her, most importantly her mother.

The poster for this movie is even more relavent to our film because the lighting used on Russel Crowes face is darkened on one side. This shows us that there is something wrong with him or there are maybe two sides to this person. Also i like the effect of the shadow seen in the background amist of a blur of colours, this would be a great affect to use for our film poster as the character Emily-Jayne is not real and a figment of Lucy's mind, therefore could be represented by a shadow or something else that is not whole.

Analysis of a film poster By Lucy Davies

This is a film poster of 'The Uninvited' I chose to anaylise this poster as we based our 5 minute film on this specifically. The eerie effect created by the woman looking through the window leaves the audience in suspence as the figure doesn't show a face. Furhtermore, the woman looking through the window implies that she isn't welcome, hence the title 'The Uninvited'. This also links with the tag line 'fear moves in', suggesting that the uninvited guest maybe the 'fear' that enters whatever is behind the window. The main title is the largest piece of text on the poster. This makes it stand out from the other texts, also making it obvious what the title is for the audience. Even though the title is the prime focus, 'from the producers of The Ring and Disturbia' is centered in the poster, which is a good advertising skill to make the audience want to go see the film. This is because there is no 'star actors' or reviews to persuade the audience and by showing pervious successful films, this could imply that this film is just as good because the same producers were used. Other relevant information is based at the bottom of the poster in white, but this isn't exposed as much as the title, tagline, producers or the release month (January). Moreover, the font used creates a ghostly effect, which continues with the eeriness throughout the whole poster.
No colour is used at all in this poster, however, this is cleverly done to produce a cold atmosphere. The trees in the background show seclusion, which also links in with the old worn out window suggesting that this could be a cabin etc isolated in a forest so no one can escape the 'fear'.