Poster Influence

The Machinist - Christian Bale
This film poster is very effective yet simple, the main central image is of Christian Bales's shockingly skinny character. You can immediately see from this poster the film is about the character of Bale and how he reacts to the outside environment. There is an transparent water mark of a window over the top of the image, this acts as if we are looking in at him yet he is looking out at us. Bale's seemingly empty yet personal stare grabs your attention as you glaze over the poster- it makes you want to know where he is and why he looks like he does. The colours are fairly drab with grey-blues and browns, the font used for Christian Bale is blood red and draws your eyes straight to the text because of the stand out colour. The font is larger for the title, 'The Machinist' which has a touch of colour that directly links to theme colour of the main photo.

The Box

This poster really inspires me to make a poster for my film using similar techniques. The colours are simple, black, white and red extremely emotive colours that show that the film has a serious aspect. The red that runs through the middle directly links all three characters together, and the red suggest there is some sort of danger surrounding them. The younger two characters have been edited so they are in sepia yet the older man in a hat is left in full colour, this makes the audience wonder about the role of this character and his link with this 'box'. The cast and bulletin have been centrally justified and this gives a postive symmetry that makes the text easy to read. The catch reads 'you are the experiment' this again makes the audience want to find out more about the narrative of the film.

Psycho -Hitchcock

You can clearly tell that this film poster is from a very different era to the other two, 1960's. It is very colourful, the colours are incredibly striking bold yellow for the main female character, light neon blue for the cast and a devilish red for the dangerous characters. The arrangement is very disjointed making you feel slightly un easy, it is done is artistic style like a collage. This gives a more aesthetically edgy vibe to the film, and makes the poster flow in less typical way to ensure that it stands out. Three exclamation marks are used to emphasize the 'screen excitement' to show that the film really provides a different and shocking experience- which is did and still does.