Playing Around With Different Positions Of The Title

Whilst I was making the poster, I found it challenging thinking of where to put all of the texts as there was limited space. I looked at typical horror film posters and it was conventional for the title of the film to be placed at the bottom. I looked at posters for Drag Me To Hell, The Possession, The Return, The Exorcist, Silent Hill, Hide And Seek and a few other posters and the title of the movie always appeared at the bottom of the film poster. However the film poster that I created will subvert from how a horror film poster typically looks and I will have the title at the top of the poster. The reason I put the title at the top of the poster was because at the bottom of the page most of the focus was on the image and I felt that it would become lost with the background being a blooded t-shirt. As the pictures illustrate, I played around with the look of the title at the bottom of the poster and I don't think it looked as good as if the title was at the top. I looked for the positions of slogans on horror film posters and I found that it varied depending on which film poster it was. There was no specific layout for where the slogan went but for my horror poster, the slogan looked better at the top as there was a big black empty space so it looked better filling it up, Also I liked the look of having the slogan underneath the title, it was effective having the red colour and then white underneath, it showed a contrast. The pictures also illustrate how the slogan 'evil never dies' was originally in the colour red but I felt there was too much red on the poster and there needed to be a change. The tagline didn't stand out at all and got overshadowed by the title. Although it's a good thing having the title be more of a focus than the tagline, I still wanted the tagline to be evident on the poster. The decision to change the colour came after I experimented with all of the different positions of text and also I looked at the conventional colours for horror films and black, red and white were the most dominant ones so I wanted to involve all colours on the poster. The audience feedback helped me a lot in the poster making process as I was able to make adjustments to improve how it looked overall.