Deconstruction of A2 Posters

Deconstruction of A2 Posters

By Connor Taylor 

The tale of James Watson:

This poster has used some mainly photoshop effects in order to achieve this, by adding the faded grey on the image that imitates smoke creating a gloomy and mysterious effect. They have also photo shopped an addition of the two men on the poster too show them as the main actors and roles in the film.

Although they have most aspects of a poster the bi-line maybe too big, the  title writing is of a lower quality to the rest of the poster a looks a little amateurish.

However they still have the correct items at the bottom with the website, the main production company and the realease, although they may be a little to big making the credits a little too high up.

Overall I though this poster was rather good, their was good aspects and some that needed improvement but everything was their and looked reasonable.

A Childs Possession:

This A2 poster has a mixed feeling and aspect towards it. The genre is very clear and obvious, however the image choice is poor, looking very amateurish with the clear poor use of photo editing with a white brush tool being quickly drawn over the eyes. The image itself is a little too much, it looks like someone is playing a joke, with no apparent view that he is inhuman or evil.

The typography is also very amateurish with the white and red fuzzy effect, it looks low quality and not professional or conforming to their media genre.

The bi-line is too blunt and has had little thought to it, most people would assume this bi-line from the picture and again seems very amateurish and childish.

The company support at the bottom however is conforming to posters, but are of low quality and not enough research and though has been put into them as film 4 rarely or never produces or sponsors films that are post production or fairly new, and I personally have never seen a professional poster of a film that has been lottery funded.

A hidden smile:

First appearance for this poster is very positive, it looks straight up professional, conforming to most successful uses in posters.

Everything appears to be thought about and placed in an appropriate location on the poster the credits look proffessional, they are not too big or small, but still take up little space on the poster.

There is present use of a website, license logos and an age label with the release date, all appearing to be in correct placement and still visible but not too large.

The poster title looks good, it conforms to the genre and the picture and doesn't look amateurish or unprofessional, and although it isn't clear text it is still very visible and readable.

The poster image itself I think is great, it is of good quality, clear, no distortions, tells a story and overall looks pleasant to view.

Overall I think that this poster was the most successful as it looked to a professional standard, conformed to most rules of posters and as a poster should be, clear, pleasant to view and gets the needed information across.