What makes a good film poster?

I think what makes a good film poster is having an eye catching title and pictures but they have to have something to do with the movie, movie genre etc. If the movie was a horror movie, the poster should have Dark red and black colours, red to represent the colour of blood and black to represent darkness.

The Film Posters should include:

• Age rating
• Release Date
• Name of the movie
• Credit Block
• Name of Main Actors
• Tagline

My Film Idea - First Draft

The genre of my film is Horror.
The age rating is going to be 15+.
This Film is going to be for people who enjoy action films as well as horror films because it is going to have many scenes that contain tension.
South London.
The story is about a serial killer that comes into a flat block, murdering people in it violently as well as torturing them before death. The setting is in one big flat block in south London. There will be brutal, extremely violent scenes like stabbing.

Starring Unknown Actors to make it scarier for the audience.

Video Games are Violent and will make you lazy.

I think that violent video games could make you lazy and aggressive if you play them too much, because if you play it too much, you get addicted and it makes you lazy because you would be sitting all day playing them.
So I think that it is not the video games' fault that you become lazy, you should have a limit to how much you play. Some people would say that video games are becoming really violent and are making game players very aggressive because they give the players an image, like if they are playing "GTA" they would get the image that they could do anything so they begin committing crimes, but the game makers put an age rating on the game so that they make sure the people playing it understand that the things that are happening in the game are wrong because they understand what the law is.

Love Letter Poster

Analyzing Film Poster (In Time)

IN TIME

Conventions of a Horror Movie

The conventional colours for the Horror genre would be black and red, the black to represent the darkness and red to represent blood and gore. Horror films have many different locations, they are mostly set in houses, graveyards, and night times for darkness. The conventional Costumes would be a mask and dark leather clothing for the bad person but the victim would have bright, peaceful colours to make them look innocent. For the props, they would use violent things, for cereal killers, they would use big sharp weapons like a machete, sometimes they use guns. Examples of Horror Films are Paranormal Activities, Orphan, Hostel.

Different Film Marketing Methods and what they are suitable for

1. The marketing methods I can remember from today are:

• The Dark Knight Viral Marketing Campaign, it involved people from around the US participating in a campaign that was like a game, players had to find clues and save/take over Gotham. Some people would choose to use things like:

Games
Toys
Websites
Adverts

• Video Games 2.Today I learned that some film marketing methods are suited to particular audience. For example: Creating a Video Game for the film whose audience is 12 and older because most teenagers are interested in Video Games.

3. Today I learned that some film marketing methods are suited to particular genres of film. For example:

• Having a Scary Video Game for a film is best suited to a film which is from the Horror genre because people who play games and they play the game for the film would be interested in watching it.
• Having Toys for a film is best suited to a film which is from the cartoon genre because if children get the toy in a Happy Meal and they like it they would want to watch the film.