Film Poster Research - Mainstream

The Truman Show

Although this design is extremely relevant to the plot of our film, and is an efficient way to put this across to the audience, it will not be used as our final film poster. The reason being while in this film, the audience have privileged knowledge, and are aware that Truman is living in a virtual world, but we don't want our audience to know that our protagonist is fictional until the very end of the film. Using a film poster like this will most likely give away our biggest plot twist.

Total Recall (2012)

This design would be appropriate for our plot however it would give away the twist as the audience doesn't know that David's world isn't real until the end. I still think that it might be beneficial for us to experiment with some designs that incorporate this technological theme because we might be able to subtly include it into our final poster without making the plot twist too obvious.

Short Circuit

This design is quite simple, which would work for our film, and suggests to a potential viewer that this isn't an average sci-fi film that has robots in it. I also quite like the fact that Number 5 (the robot) is alone on a mountain top because it shows his isolation but also the enormity of his story. The tag line at the top hints to the audience the important part of the plot but it doesn't give it away.