Let's start with some just overall general movie poster conventions and then we can specifically delve into documentary poster conventions.
Some typical conventions of movie posters include the following:
- an eye-catching focal picture
- suggestion of the genre of the movie
- evident tag line
- display of a large readable title
- the release date at the bottom of the poster, along with the director, actors, producers, and movie website
I will be abiding by most of them, except of course the actor credits, since I have no actors.
Now, here are some specific documentary poster conventions:
- quotes (from either reviews or the doc itself)
- awards (placed usually at the top of the poster)
- topic indicator (whether it be through the caption or background)
Here is where I will be breaking conventions. I do not like the idea of a quote on my poster, I feel like it is a bit cheesy and unnecessary, it clutters up the poster space and takes away from the poster's design. I will not be putting any awards, seeing as to how my piece is brand new. I will be adding the topic indicator in a specific caption/tagline to entice the viewer. I also want to include its method of dissemination through netflix to inform my audience of my doc's distribution.
I will be going into the specifics of my own doc poster design in the next post!
sources:
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshare16/conventions-of-a-documentary-poster
https://www.slideshare.net/seanrdhughes/conventions-of-documentary-film-posters
https://www.pinterest.com/williebaronet/documentary-posters/
http://www.rocofilms.com/film.php?code=lion
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