Codes and Conventions of Film Posters

Between writing our final version of the script I decided to do some research into the codes and conventions of film posters, one of my two ancillary tasks supporting the main production and so looking at some previously created A2 blogs, paying attention to the advertisements around me and researching particular films I have found out that film posters for short films are not so different from film posters for feature films. Previously the amount of budget would be a big decider in spending money on advertisements however now in the age of Photoshop even small production companies can compete with oligopolies for the most creative and griping posters on the market.

Poster Inspiration

When researching film posters I came around the film posters for a film called Speed-Dating.

''Best friends Dog and Beaver  have difficulty ever meeting women. No matter what they do, nothing ever goes right for them. That all changes when the best friend Too Cool  invites them to try out a round of speed dating.'''

The film might not have been a commercial and financial success with reviews like

''A tired mash-up of every men-behaving-badly sitcom ever to grace a third-tier television network, Speed-Dating tries to coax laughs from characters so dated even Eddie Murphy would balk.''

Jeanette Catsoulis from The New York Times. 

However I liked their marketing campaign which took the idea of speed-dating and incorporated it in its tag lines.