The document analyzes a movie poster created by the author. It compares the layout and design elements to the poster for Black Swan, which served as inspiration. Key elements copied from Black Swan include the positioning of the main images and placement of the billing block at the bottom. The main image on the author's poster depicts the Cheshire Cat character from the waist up with a morphing cat eye to represent her evil side. Text is kept minimal and focused on the title, tagline, director's name, and social media links to promote the film online.

1. Poster Analysis
By EibhilinMckerr

2. Codes and Conventions
Taglin
e
Directors
Name
Unique
Selling
Point
Billing Block
Website
Social
Release
Date
Movie
Title

3. Cast Names
Franchise
Release
Movie
Title
Directors
Name
Company
Logos
Unique Selling
Point

4. Comparison
I used Black Swan as my
inspiration for it’s layout. I originally
intended to have my main images
positioned like on the Black Swan.
On my earlier drafts I attempted
this but I decided to change as I
thought this way looked better.
What I kept the same of my
inspiration is the layout of text as
the billing block is at the bottom
and the name is placed in the
same position. I wanted to use this
as my inspiration as I thought it
looked simple and it has aspects
from the main film which I
interpreted into my poster.

5. Main Image
As my unique selling point of my film is my
Cheshire Cat my main image includes that
character from the teaser trailer. I only used half
of her face to symbolize that this is her evil side.
Using PhotoShop I created a cat eye using the
Polygon lasso tool to select the colour of the eye
and gradually turn it red. I done the same this to
create the shape of her eye to morph it into a cat
eye. I wanted it to be the only colour in the image
to make it stand out as it is my unique selling
point. Using makeup I created my Cheshire Cat
Smile and to make it more realistic I faded my
lips out and added a faint black colour around the
mouth to make it stand out more.
At the side of my main I faded another image in
which is supposed to portray the good side of
her. This is showed by that she isn’t wearing any
makeup and her hair pulled back.

6. Written Content
My title is The Cat Whispers which is in
the same font as the only I used in my
teaser trailer but this time it’s in red
instead of white as it is the colour
scheme I had previously decided to
follow. 4 other texts are in the same
colour red as I want those to stand out
from my greyscale main image. My billing
block is in black as I didn’t want to use
too much red as it looks more
professional red. At the top of the poster
it says DIRECTED BY EIBHILIN
MCKERR and WOULD YOU LET
ANYBODY CHANGE YOU? I put the
directors name in white to make it stand
out from the tagline as it looks sleek and
professional.
At the bottom of the images I included
social networking sites and to link viewers
to our Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr
website by including hashtags to search
online for the movie trailer to appear and