Print Component Research

Hi everyone! Sick of me yet? I am back with another posting for this week. This post will be on thinking about the print component of our project. 

On Monday, we had a lesson on the print component of the portfolio project and I learned a lot about the key art poster. Here are some notes I gathered from the lesson: 

Film Promo- Poster

• Choices dictated by the distribution plan

• Main key art for marketing 

• Theatrical release 

• title 

• key art 

• production credits 

• tagline 

• Streaming release 

• multiple thumbnails w/key art

• title 

• few production credits

Following this lesson, I was excited to get started on the poster. Riley and I won't start working on it until week seven of the project, so for now we are just doing research and brainstorming. Since we're planning a streaming release rather than a theatrical one, I looked at thumbnails from a Netflix original movie, The Adam Project. 

I knew that when you see small pictures representing shows or movies on streaming platforms, they don't always just use the main poster image. Sometimes they use a picture from an actual scene in the show or movie. For example, the thumbnails from scenes in The Adam Project. I think these pictures really capture the essence of the movie and make people want to watch it.

This is the poster for the show Manifest. It has a tagline, title, and where you can watch it. I like how these posters focus more on the main picture than the title. Now we just need to pick the right picture to use for our poster.

Bye for now!