Used to advertise

Contain an image with text

Text on movie posters usually

contains the film title and names

of main actors in large lettering

Photo of the main actor(s)

May include a tagline, name of director, names of

characters, release date...

Where would you find a poster?

Bus and Bus-stops

Billboards

In and outside of the cinema

Magazines and Newspapers

Websites

Flyers

Film Posters of 2013...

When looking at film posters of 2013, I have found the

common convention of a poster seems to be having just two

characters of the film on the poster.

I believe this is because production companies don’t want

the poster to be too busy as no attention will be drawn to

other information upon the poster.

In a British Social Realism film I believe this would also be

the best way to go, as because these types of films don’t

have ‘big’ names starring in them, people may in fact be

interested to know other information about the film.

For my film poster, I will be going with the idea of only having

two characters on the poster.