Film Noir movie posters

I used Photoshop to create these three movie posters by merging together multiple single images (this was done using the photos we took at the start of the project for the character profiles). The bottom poster is my least favourite of the three because it seems slightly unorganised and the main character (Detective John Carter, top right of this image) occupies a much smaller space than Bobby (on the left side of this image) who is a less important character.

I like the top two posters more because the three main characters nicely occupy the available space in equal amounts. The detective's close-up in these two posters shows that he is the main character and the positioning of Bobby and our femme fatale, Bonnie, creates a trailing perspective which refelcts the apparant significance of the charcaters within the film itself. It could be said that Bonnie looks too innocent for a femme fatale in the top and middle posters, however, this simply reflects the deceitful nature of her character.

I much prefer the middle poster to the top poster, though, because of the title: the title of the middle poster is more professionally advanced and outstanding, the blood-red colouring of the word "Lustful" represents the meaning of the word itself as well as symbolising love and danger too. The contrast between this and the white colouring of the word "Injustice" makes the title appear bolder and this combined with a subtle shadow makes the title stand out far greater than the bland, simple title in the other two posters.

The one thing I do not like about all three posters is that the only text on them is the title; they should have writing on them about the cast, release date, director, producer etc and the production company logo should also be on them. Nonetheless I am pleased with the results.

The top two posters bare resemblance to the movie posters of L.A. Confidential and the spanish version of The Black Dahlia (both of which are examples of Film Noir movies that we watched in class and took inspiration from). By displaying the characters in this perspective (most important character at the front, decreasing in importance towards the back) the level of significance of the characters is instantly clear. I think the similarities with real movie posters show that the movie posters I created have an element of professionalism to them which has been created by the use of conventional methods stated above.