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Font Analysis

Font Analysis - Double page

To get a better understanding of the fonts style and size on my double page spread I've been looking at a number of copies of Empire Magazine.

These four double pages act as more of a title page before the review of the film rather than the actual review. In my own one I'm likely to include a main title like these so this is still useful. In each one the style of the writing links to either the picture also displayed on the page or the genre or type of film it is. The picture for the Ted review is of him in a bubble bath and the colour or background of the font is also bubbles. This is the same in the Spiderman review but much more obvious with the writing in a spiders web.

I'd like to try something quite extravagant like the Spiderman one however it'd be quite time consuming and take up a lot of the room on my double page, which would make it difficult as i have to have actual reviews on my own. The actual fonts of the other three pages is quite simple, the colour of them seems to be the bit that has the most impact and they are all very big and cover a lot of the page.  

Double Page Spread/Film Review Research

Poster Research

To make my film poster as realistic as possible I am trying to mimic as many aspects of previous posters as I can without completely copying them. Something noticed on all the modern posters I've looked at is the writing at the bottom where it lists the production companies etc. is always in the same font.

Therefore I wanted to use this on my poster, however it wasn't one of the fonts that came with my computer. Instead I used dafont.com to download it and eventually apply to my own poster.

Production Company Research

This table lists film noir films produced by three different production companies. These three have produced quite a lot and when deciding what production company to use on our film this could be helpful.

Poster Research

 

 Whilst researching Film Noir posters I also looked at other genres of films. American Gangster isn't a film noir or neo noir but I thought the effect used on the poster would look good on a film noir poster. When creating my own poster i tried to mimic some features of the poster, in this case the red line between the title of the film.

To make the line I used Adobe fireworks. Firstly I inserted a plain red line onto a blank document, I then used the paintbrush tool with the splatter and pastel effects to make it look like blood at the end. The end effect is quite good but not as neat as the one on the American Gangster poster. Once I've added the line to my actual poster I'll have a better idea as whether it looks good or not.