Research and Planning: Conventions of a film poster

To make my poster look like a film poster I will have to follow the typical conventions of a film poster. The poster will have to tell a story through both the picture and the tag line but it will still have to hold some mystery. To follow the typical conventions of a horror poster my poster will probably be dark, and like a typical apocalypse poster my hero will be standing alone in the centre of the poster alone (28 Days Later), but this isn't just seen in posters when the character is the last one on earth, films which feature outsiders also have these kind of posters, an example being Watchmen.

In most film posters the title of the film is big so the audience can't see it, the tag line is beneath is and lets the audience know what it's about in a short line. In horror films there are not normally the names of stars because big stars don't usually do horror films as the audience are attracted by how scary it is. A date is also necessary so the audience know when it will be released.