Poster Planning

The poster for our film needs to have some serious ooomf! We knew that it was a bold choice to chose a film such as this, and so we need to get our poster to show this to an audience who has no idea about it! The conventions of the poster need to be:

• similar to '21' movie poster, there should be a set of card, or two slanted cards with a picture inside


• a relevance of the diamond flush - being a diamond or a car with diamonds on the cover


• serious faces with most characters on, and Maverick to be centralised


• have some show of violence in the cover, for examples guns or knives, just to reflect that it is an action thriller.


• the poker factor needs to be introduced, whether its by the slanted card idea (the cards being the background so the outline of the cards is visible) or just a show of poker cards and poker chips


• the colours need to relevant to the film, red signifies the colour of the Diamond cards..


• possibly reviews on the poster somewhere or star ratings perhaps


• a date of release


• title obviously Diamond Flush here we can have the same title font as the one used for the magazine cover for Enigma magazine


• we need a certificate for the film, we are expecting all the content to be accountable as a 15 certificate


• the film needs a sassy line, like a review line for example "stylish, clever and funny.. an excellent thriller overflowing with cool" or a slogan..


• actor names in real life


• credited roles in small, thin, fine vague writing at the bottom of the poster

all these will make the poster look authentic which is what we hoped for throughout the filming process..