Forms and conventions of a film poster and how we as a group will use them

As we started on the second part of our project, our group started to look at and research different film posters of similar films within our chosen genre. We chose to look at film posters of the films that were within our genre; Charlie’s Angels, Chicago and The Sopranos.
Forms and conventions:
• General colour code throughout the poster
• Strong background colour associated with that colour code
• Bold title usually in a colour contrasting the background colour, yet still keeping to the colour code
• One main image (usually)
• Main actors names on the poster; the position on the poster of these names changes from poster to poster for various reasons
• Production company, director, producer etc usually in a small bulk of text at the bottom of the page
• A quotation from the film or about the film from newspapers or critics who’ve reviewed it (sometimes)
How will we use these?
We as a group plan to:
• Create our own company logo to incorporate in our poster and trailer
• We decided on a colour code of red, black, white and gold for various reason
• For our title we want a specific font ( ) as through certain letters it creates certain connotations and images in the audiences mind
• We decided to include our names in the poster but didn’t give them any specific roll within the film
• The image we want as our main image is going to be one that is quite intimidating and threatening yet still doesn’t completely let you see everything about the character.