Completed Film Poster

This is my completed poster.

The film poster is landscape.

The main focus of the poster is the hitman with the gun in his hand.

The title The Contractor is similar to the title of the film The Mechanic when you think of a contractor you think of a builder but what it basically means is when a hitman gets a job they call it a contract.

The tagline No Comprises means that he can not comprise himself if he does it is game over for him and no new start somewhere else.

The lighting is coming from the top middle and right.

The hitman being in an alleyway suggests that he wants to get around quietly and no be stopped and if he isn't spotted he will complete his mission of escaping from the agency.

The lighting on the hitmans back shows that he is wearing a suit and that suggests he is professional with his work.

You can not see the hitmans face because of the way he is positioned this suggests he doesn't want anyone to find him or know who he is.

The name in this film is Sir Ben Kingsley because he is a well known actor this will attract more people to come and see the film.

Also with Lionsgate making the film promotes it a bit because they have created a lot of good films.   

Film Poster Development

Firstly I took some pictures of Adam because he is who I used for my poster.

I took about 4 pictures but this is the one I decided to use.

I then went onto Google to get a good picture for my background it took me a while but I eventually found this one which I thought was good.








 Next I added in the main focus which is Adam in his suit.









 Next I added the title onto my film poster where the beginning of the title is a small font and the second part of it is larger so it stands out more.  I got the font from a website called da font.

After adding the title I added the tagline and I placed it under the title so that it was visible to see.

Then I added a BBFC rating of 15 and and I added the lionsgate logo because that is who created the film. 

I then added a title bar at the bottom of the poster and this just tells you who did the music, costume, edit, produced and directed it.

Finally I added the actors at the top of the poster I put Adam's name, Ashley Roberts and Sir Ben Kingsley.

Proposal (Film Poster)

Basic Layout Designs (Film Poster)

This layout design is the hitman is looking out of the window with the gun in one hand and looking at his phone in the other hand waiting for a call.  As he is looking out the window even though you can't see his face it kind of suggests that he might be thinking is there any hope for him.  This is based in a dark dingy apartment.

This one is also in an apartment but instead of looking out of the window he is sat in a chair holding his gun and looking at his phone.  By looking at his phone it suggests he is desperate to get a call for a new contract because the sooner he has some money the sooner he can try and flee the country.

Ideas Work (Film Poster)

I came up with this idea because I have just bought the new Hitman game and this a genre nobody really uses for a film poster so I thought I would be different.

Here are the my working title, I thought of a few but I ended up using The Contractor because when I hitman is assigned a job they call it a contract.

I made a storyline for the poster to go off.

Here are the taglines I came up with, a tagline has to be a few words to key up the storyline.

Film Poster Analysis

Fonts

My First Film Poster