Production Diary for Digital Graphics Live Brief

Research into already made film festival posters
I begun by researching other film festival posters. I looked at and analysed their designs to help me think of designs for my own poster.

http://adweek.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c51c053ef011570a6caf0970b-450wi

I really like this poster which is for the Seattle International Film Festival. The slogan of 'find the unexpected' fits well with the images used. The turquoise background is an appealing colour, and it's not too bright as to distract from the content of the poster however it is still eye catching. By showing a large squid/octopus, something not often seen, which fits with the slogan of 'find the unexpected'. I think this is implying mystery and excitement to be found at the festival. The way the octopus is holding lots of objects implies the variety of films at the festival and lets anyone looking at the poster know this isn't just a sea themed film festival. The balloons held in one tentacle could imply there a films for children, the magnifying glass could represent mystery or detective films, the building thats been ripped from the ground could imply apocalyptic type films; so to reiterate the poster shows the variety available. Also shown is the dates the festival is on for, this could be improved by adding a year for archival purposes and the location for the festival.

http://weandthecolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/27th-Cinema-Jove-Film-Festival-Poster-Design-by-Casmic-Lab.jpg

Initial poster designs

I decided to use Photoshop to design my posters.

This was my first design but I felt it attracted a more childish audience.

I created this poster by getting the background image of Google images and opening it in photoshop. I then selected the text button and wrote Tees Fuse Film Fest. I chose to use bold red text as it stood out against the background and would be eye catching to someone walking past the poster. I changed the width of some of the words so they were all the same length as this looks better. I chose to keep the poster quite simple as it gives the poster a mysterious feel which could encourage people to come and see what its all about. 

If I was to do this again I would ask the client more questions to find out exactly what they are looking for in the poster.