By Ryan Etwaroo

This drawing is an early draft of my teaser poster, which involves an enigmatic character sitting on a foldable chair riddled with bullet holes looking over a desolate landscape. The font would be CGF Locust Resistance by CGF.

I decided not to use my first draft from the last slide and used a different layout which made the protagonist look more enigmatic. I used this background as it fits the dystopian setting more than my draft and there were no background images similar to what I had in mind for the original design.

The next step was to take a photo of myself in costume, this photo was the end result and is the foreground picture. The reason I used this photo is because of its sense of enigma around the character and how it shows an apocalyptic feeling through the character and what he wears ( for example, the gas mask and bandage gives a feeling of danger).

The next step is to get the foreground picture onto the background, to do this I used a free online picture editing software called “pixlr” and I used the software to also edit the brightness, contrast and saturation of the pictures.

The final step was to add text onto the poster, for this I found a website that has an archive of thousands of different fonts called “dafont.com” The font I used for the main title is called “locust resistance” I used this font as I think it fits very well with the dystopian/apocalyptic feel of the poster. With the use of pixlr, I made the letters seem even more weathered and broken.

The way I produced the theatrical poster is almost identical as the way I produced the teaser poster as I used pixlr to edit my pictures and to move the foreground images onto the background image. I used this image as my foreground image as it draws people in to looking at the poster. With the use of the gas mask and the pistol it helps connotes that this film will be a dystopian/apocalyptic film.

There were lots of background images I tried to find online as I couldn’t find the right setting to take a picture of the background with a camera. I originally intended to use this image to serve as my background, but due to the lack of light in this picture, I decided to find another image. This image was a rough poster to see how well the foreground image fit in with the background image.

Eventually I found a suitable background image to use as my background, this image works particularly well as it works well with the foreground images colour scheme.

Now I edited the foreground image onto the background, this image is a rough copy of my final product as the foreground image has not been changed from the original. Though the background fits well, there was one problem with it: a lone person walking down which was in the image when I first found it, to fix this I simply moved the foreground image in front of it. This image a version where I edited the edges and changed some of the saturation of the foreground image.

I then added the title using the same font as I used in my teaser poster, which is called “locust resistance. I then added the blurb, cast names and the date to the poster.

The poster is a science fiction poster and is mainly targeted at an older audience of 18+, I did this as the themes that an apocalyptic sci-fi film represents would be for a more mature understanding and would not connect with the younger audience. The poster is made to represent the horrors of the apocalypse and how the life everyone used to live is gone. The colour design for the theatrical poster mainly consists of grey, black and other bleak colours, this was used as it shows the cinematic world as a colourless and dark world. The teaser trailer is quite similar as there is little colour in it. The slogans I think were quite bad as I did not put much thought into it, I probably could have thought of a better one, though it does express the theme of living a different way of life. The type of font I used for both of the posters was called “locust resistance” this was a suitable font as it looked damaged but with the use of pixlr I was able to make it seem even more weathered. The font for the other text was a default calibri (body) font.

The information I have provided for the theatrical poster is the main cast of the film, the film blurb which shows the film company, producer and director. The images in the teaser poster show the protagonist is injured with blood dripping off of his hands and blood searing through his bandage, this shows that the protagonist is in some kind of danger. The theatrical poster only really shows off the protagonist and him walking through a ruined city. The shot composition of the theatrical poster makes the main protagonist look as a more powerful character but the teaser poster almost makes him seem weaker as the composition was meant to show that the protagonist is injured. There aren’t many conventions of a dystopian film in my poster, it is actually more like an apocalyptic movie, though this poster connotes some dystopian conventions including: A society that is suffering and it is set in the future.

The costume of the protagonist makes the protagonist seem less like a proppian hero and more like a false hero, this can be seen in the theatrical poster as the colour of his clothing is mainly black, which connotes evil and darkness, even the eyes of the gas mask are coloured black to give a sense of enigma to the character. I think the theatrical poster is more effective as it shows off the ruined world more, it also shows us how dangerous the world is from the character’s costume (gas mask and a pistol).