Monday, 7 January 2013

Poster Research

From looking at existing documentary / mockumentary film posters I have found that most of the posters have the main character / star as the main focus point of the poster, then the surrounding content is usually of great significance to the film and details within the film.


- Super Size Me's cover focuses around the main guy in the film, Morgan Spurlock, which fries in his mouth which is directly related to the film because the movie is about McDonalds. This can also be seen in another Morgan Spurlock film 'Greatest Movie Ever Sold' which is about product placement in film so on the cover, lots of brand logos are displayed on the main characters' body.






For The documentary Food, Inc. The poster is designed along the same lines as the two Morgan Spurlock films, the poster includes the subject as the main feature, in this case a cow which obviously represents Beef and part of the food industry, on the cow is a bar code which shows that the documentary will be about how animals are only bred to be sold and made money from. Also like the two Spurlock films is that there is a quote from a review of the film by a respected Publication in plain view on the poster. It also features a small "slogan" for the film such as "You'll never look at dinner the same way again" or "He's not selling out, he's buying in".







Below are a few more examples of documentary posters which also have similarities to the film posters I have wrote about above and will base my designs around.





















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