The Film Poster for Baby Mine



This is our final poster for our short film. After much investigation we decided we liked the idea of a landscape poster- perhaps something you would see on a billboard- as our final piece. We still wanted to stick to the conventions of a film poster while maintaining our off-kilter brand of sorts. I believe that it is a poster that makes you stop and look in order to catch all of the details, with is ultimately what a film producer hopes for. The bizarre mystery of each image, the font, reviews and slogan is a mix that has the desired effect: to intrigue and sell.

We were inspired by the poster for 'Thor' when we were researching different ideas for posters. We thought that considering our narrative and shots that we could incorporate this idea in a different way, by having the two faces at the end in a kind of 'stand-off' manner, which between a ghost and a baby is perhaps quite strange, but yet again fulfilling the intrigue ideology, with the use of red font standing out and connoting danger, especially amongst such dull colours. We duped this alongside an image we found, again when researching horror films near the beginning of our research. We had this idea for a poster for a while because of said image as it had the effect of drawing us in as well as appearing original. The fact that it contained all of the horror movie character legends that we loved also felt like it must be a sure sign also. Image result for landscape film posters


The movie poster credit and BBFC age rating are vital aspects of a film poster. We spent a while writing our own credits applicable to our film, again to create the idea that this is a genuine film poster, and so must contain all of the conventions accommodated to our film in order to create realism.

All images we used were taken from screenshots in our actual film as we didn't want it to feel staged. If we had taken a picture of 'Mary' or 'Edward' we feared it would look too tacky and less realistic. Due to the fact that we knew how we wanted our poster to look there is little production to be seen, we took multiple screenshots in the film and placed them into the order we desired fairly quickly. The slogan was a different challenge and strangely the hardest part about creating this poster. We came up with multiple, cringe inducing, ideas such as 'It's not your baby' and 'Don't you cry'. We eventually decided on 'A Mother's Love Never Dies' as we felt that this was impactful and also carried with it the thematic nature of our film of both ideas of motherhood alongside the supernatural. As needn't add any filter as we already had achieved the blue-tone effect in our actual film and so it was just a matter of putting the images together and overlaying the texts. As shown without below:

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