Film Poster Design Idea

This is my design for a movie poster for our film 'Shadow'. I have used PhotoShop 7.0 to make a basic outline for our poster.

Background:

I have used a plain black backgorund for the poster as I feel for a thriller film it would work well. A dark background will help make any font/text stand out. The colour black also links to our title 'shadow', Shadows are stereotypically black and so it links. Also the them of our film is invisibility- therefore having a black backgorund could connote the idea that the main character is being pulled into darkness, and is actually becoming a shadow.

Main Image:

I believe that the protagonist of the film should be used as the main image on a movie poster, it helps the audience identify who the film is about before watching it. The main character of our film is a girl, and this is a steroetype of thriller films; having a 'damsel in distress', however unlike many other thriller films posters (e.g shutter island), there is no dominant male figure on our poster.
The image of the girl is only in outline, and is coloured grey. I feel this will help link to the theme of invisibility and give the idea that the girl is literally shrinking into the background.

Font:

I have used red for the colour of the title 'shadow' however i do feel that this oulc be re-thought. The colour red connotes anger, passion, love, death and blood and these themes arent really present in our film. I feel that the colour white works well on the other text as it stands out from the white background.

Features:

I have included several common features of movie posters, including:

- Age limit

- Distributor logo

- Information (actors, director etc)

- Tag Line