Film Poster Fonts

These three images have been cropped from film poster of a very similar genre of One Way Road (sports drama). I shall use these images to analyse and design my own font for One Way Roads poster title. 

I have discovered that all fonts used on all three film posters are written in a clear, Sanserif font (excluding "Stomp The Yard"). I have also noticed that no extravagant colours are used, and that white and gold shades are most popular. 

 Coach Carter's font has an urban and distressed look, this portrays a film they may consist of an urban struggle which has been resolved through the use of sport. The Fighter uses a large and bold, this portrays a fierce storyline with fierce action and emotion. And lastly, Stomp The Yard uses a gold shade with a varsity like font. This represents the plot and character of a college student. 

When designing my own font for One Way Road I want to include elements of both Coach Carter's and The Fighter's choice of fonts. I really like the urban design from Coach Carter as I could use this to represent my characters tough upbringing and background, however I also wish to use the boldness of The Fighter's font as that could also represent the fight and fierce action of the events which the character in One Way Road experiences. 

EDITED PHOTOS

Out of the many photographs I took I chose to select three to work with for my film poster. Below shows the editing process for each picture and how I ended up with a finalised photograph which I could possibly use for my final poster design. The reasons I chose these three images is because I liked the idea of my image not consisting of direct mode of address to portray the messaging of "turning his back on his past". 

                              

For this image I started by increasing the overall contrast and decreasing the overall brightness of the picture to give it a dark atmosphere. After adjusting the brightness and contrast I added a vignette effect to give the photograph a black and closed in boarder.

"In photography and optics, vignetting (/vɪnˈjɛtɪŋ/; French: "vignette") is a reduction of an image's brightness or saturation at the periphery compared to the image center." 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vignetting

After adding the vignette effect I then added another filter which is called "Posterize" this effect allows the photograph to look sketched and artistic. I like the idea of the "Posterize" effect because it portrays the message that the character has to over come his past life and draw a new path for himself. 

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I really like this image purely for the fact the character is looking into the sunset, portraying "looking for a better path". For this image I just simply adjusted the brightness and contrast to enhance the colours in the image, this effect allowed me to enhance the colours in the sunset and brighten up the image as a whole. 

                   

              

And finally, I really liked this image as once again the same message portrayed from image 2 is given, "looking for a better path". Instead of adjusting the images brightness and contrast I adjusted the hue and saturation. This also enhanced the colours in the sunset to make the image look more appealing. I also added the film grain in light filter, this gives the image a distressed effect, I thought that the distressed look worked well with the genre of the film because the urban scene is brought to attention. I also did some research into film posters of a similar genre, containing a heroic figure and plot, for example; Blade and Harry Potter. As seen in the image below there is a lack of direct mode of address used for this genre, therefore I felt that using the three chosen images as possibilities could work with stereotypical film posters of a similar storyline and character. 

I also researched into film posters of my specific chosen genre (Sports/Drama), and I discovered a similarity that direct mode of address wasn't present on many posters, as seen from the images below of posters for "Stomp the Yard", "Rocky" and "The Blind Side". 

IMAGES

Above is a collage I made of shots I have taken for my film poster, many of which are for possible use whereas some are not. Edited versions will be up shortly. 

EDITING

In our lesson we went out and took some pictures around the school to then practice editing them using iPhoto. This was so that when it comes to editing our photos for our film posters we had experience using the editing software. 

Above you can see the difference in picture due to editing. For this picture I added a cold effect, taking away the oranges and browns from the shed, creating an eerie look. I also increased the contrast and brightness to enhance the shadows on the shed. 

For this picture I increased the warmness, taking away the blue sky and creating a warm, late afternoon look with a light orange sky. I also increased the brightness and contrast to once again, enhance the shadows. 

                            

For this picture I decided to increase the contrast to darken the fence. I also played around with the effect for this picture and decided to use black and white to give it an old look. I also considered blurring out the outside to give it an eerie and uncomfortable feel. 

Overall, after this practice I feel very comfortable with editing with this new program we've been introduced to, and because of this I've decided to edit my images for my film poster with iPhoto.