Basic Poster Ideas (Fonts)

As a way to test out some of our ideas of fonts on posters, we used a basic picture of a couple from the internet and placed our fonts over the top. Since we wanted to incorporate ideas from the poster of 'Like Crazy', we thought that placing the title over the picture would be the best idea because then we could add in other faded words later.

JulesLove:

As suspected, this looks very young and happy and therefore gives of the wrong vibe as we want it to look more serious. It also draws too much attention away from the image as the font is so detailed and delicate.

Roadway:

I love this font as I think it means that we can place it in an interesting way as it changes size. This could be used to our advantage, for example in the sample above, we can make sure the photo stays the most important centre of attention but still making the title very clear also. I prefer the positioning of the font in the second sample rather than the first as I think it looks more interesting and professional, whilst the first one is quite dull and looks more like a leaflet. 

Boarder:

I also really like this font as it is so bold yet simple. However, like the JulesLove font, it may cause a problem of drawing attention away from the poster. From this problem we came up with the idea of cutting out bits of the letters (For example, a hole in the 'D' and 'g') to reveal more of the picture underneath. We originally discussed the idea of having a blank poster with the photo only coming through bits of cut out letters but then decided that the audience would not be able to see enough of it and therefore gage enough of the genre of the film. We then thought about fading the main photo but brightening the bits coming through the letters so therefore the audience can see the full image but important bits of the photo are highlighted through the letters. We will try this out when we have access to photoshop back at school.

W.H. B.M.