Stillborn Poster

Before Editing

When planning our film poster main image we decided that we wanted a close-up or a mid-shot focused on our main protagonist. During my research into psychological thrillers, I found that this was the camera shot that most posters used. As our AS production was focused on the deterioration of the characters mental health, and increasing paranoia, we also wanted to include props relevant to both the thriller genre, and specifically to our narrative. On of the main themes in our production was childhood, as the protagonist is fearful of a doll following her in exchange of her stillborn twin sister. We felt that perfecting mise-en-scene would be crucial for our main image, as a doll prop is essentially our antagonist character. We decided that our background would be a collection of destroyed and dismantled dolls for children. When setting up our photoshoot we placed these dolls around our protagonists head, entangled in her hair, creating the idea that the dolls are a part of her, and are apparent in her everyday thoughts and life. This means that the poster gives an indication of what the film could be about, which is a main convention that audiences expect to see in film advertisement. In creating my poster I decided to add a black and white effect as I thought this was unique and unusual, not only making the film more memorable, but also introduced the strange film concept and genre. I used photoshop to create my poster, this allowed me to use techniques such as keeping the characters lips in red, not only contrasting with the black and white background, but I felt also was successful as red is connotative of blood, love and danger, three major themes in our production. As star power was not apparent in my AS production, I decided to put a review from a popular film magazine in the top left corner, as this is typically the way that audiences read text, drawing attention to how the film has had positive reviews. 



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