Planning for production - Inspiration for my drawing of the front plan (main image)

Like with all great creations, when creating the front plan of my movie poster (second image in 'front plan of movie posters'), what I first of all did was look at different movie posters of movies with similar themes, refer back to my analysis on movie posters, and also look at different icons/ images that linked to the themes of 'The Examined'.

The movie poster that I looked at was 'Saw', as I felt it portrayed similar themes to The Examined of isolation, as well as a similar story as likewise with our movie, in Saw characters are put into a test for their lives. However, when looking at the the poster I realized while it is very successful in highlighting themes of isolation and fear, it in no way actually relates to the plot of The Examined as I feel that it is imperative that this aspect of 'school life' is made evident in the poster.



So what I did next was look at different objects that you would see present in a school, and see if I could subvert these different objects in order to make a film poster that can relate to our movie. So after looking at various school objects like pens, desks, rulers, compasses etc. I lastly looked at a normal school whiteboard where it suddenly struck to me out of nowhere, that I could use a actual whiteboard with details on it about The Examined (film name, release date, tagline etc) and use it in a exam theme (exam name = film name, start time = release date), in order to relate to the themes of our movie whilst also maintain the horror aspect through the typography.

What I then did to make sure the the poster still revealed something of the genre, was add a tagline "failure = death, success = life" in order to express the genre in the poster, as well as using a font similar to 'slasha' for the typography in order to make the genre of the movie still remained evident.