Poster Research

While looking at 'Mockumentary' posters, they don't seem to come across serious enough to try and pull off the documentary side of things, the main ones I compared was David Attenborough's 'Frozen Planet' and Sacha Baren Cohen's 'Borat'.


The main image you see for the advertisement of Frozen Planet is various short clips of animals and vast landscapes, however, when they show you advertisements on sites such as Netflix and BBC iPlayer, they use the image below as a poster. It clearly depicts Antarctica, one of the two main subjects of the documentary, and nothing else. The simplicity of the poster is a nice effect as well as the lighting from the sun on the bottom corner.

Alternatively, the movie poster for Borat is quite different. It only depicts Borat himself, holding a small flag of the United States, the 'main subject' of the Mockumentary. Other than that there is no real depiction of what it will be about. You can definitely tell the difference between the two from just the look of the poster, which I feel ours will need to follow along the lines of having your poster define what the short film will be about.

Although ours is a self-proclaimed Mockumentary, I feel that a normal documentary style poster would fit quite well. Some may argue that it goes against the whole mockumentary genre, but we need it to stand out from the others, and doing it in such a way would do that. If in the end it really doesn't work, we could always do a hybrid of the two and create a documentary style poster will comedic elements for the mockumentary side of things.