Graphic Design: Film Poster

All work needs to be put on the blog and blog-link will need to be handed in as an Assignment on Teams

Feedback will be verbal and on Teams and then summative on a mark sheet.

You have four lessons a week on this project.

Film Poster Design

Create a new blog called Film Poster and link it to your hub blog.

Lessons 1-3

Learning Photoshop (three PDFs). Use your group and teacher for support on this as lessons are remote.

Lesson 4

Which poster?

Students need to pair up (2s or 3s if needed) and spin the wheels! These will determine what poster you will do. Research and planning done in pairs, but editing done individually.

Film name
Poster trope - this will be explored more in your research
Film Genre

Put what you got from the wheels at the top of your blog 

Read this article on poster cliches. 

Summarise what you learned.

Collect 5 posters that they wish to emulate from their given poster cliche. Students should also find 3 posters they dislike in the style of their given poster cliche. Students should open these posters in photoshop and using the rectangle tool (with no fill and a coloured thick stroke) highlight and briefly discuss why you like or dislike elements.

Lesson 5

 

Practice your Photoshop skills. You need to have Photoshop for this, (or failing this, if you must, Gimp)

If you have already done TASK A move on to TASK B

TASK A
Students should recreate this poster using this file

Save it as JPG! This flattens the image so you can put it on your blog.

TASK B

Follow this tutorial - download the files needed at this link

Lesson 6

Elements of a film poster

Find three UK quad film posters and spend 10-15 mins on each annotating the elements, like this (hopefully use Adobe Photoshop, if you can't, let us know):

Narrative

Your film poster needs to be based on an original story with an original character.

Come up with three simple story ideas for your genre. This might help.

Each needs a main character (17-20 years old)

Present to another student and get feedback as to which is best. Write this up on the blog.

Consider what the main character would be doing in the image you will use for the poster. You will need to photograph this. Props, costume and make-up will all be useful.

Lesson 7 & 8

Colour Scheme

Produce a colour scheme. Students can read this article about colour theory. And start to collect and experiment what colours to use for their poster. Like this, using photoshop

Pre-production

Students will be making quad posters (horizontal 20x15inches). Once students have been given their film name, poster cliche and film genre, students need to:

- Sketch out multiple options - watch this video for help on layout

- Type a blog post as to the stills you want to shoot

- Fonts to be used - watch this video, blog note as to something you learned from it

- Font sheet (6-8 possible fonts), with a review of which is your choice and why. Primary research: Find out if another student agrees with you, write up on blog.

Use this document to plan... 

-List all elements they need to photograph (landscape, character, etc)

-List props and clothing needed 

-List locations needed

Be ready to shoot your character when you come back into College, you should be able to use classroom and exterior locations. You will need a recce and risk assessment for any location shoots.

a) Recce

Adapt this one  as needed

b) Risk Assessment 

Risk Assessment sheet

checklist so far

Brief

(please note original brief said 2021, the deadline is 2020 of course)

Evaluation