Film poster photo ideas

Our group found a website with an article on typical romantic comedy poster clichés.
http://www.empireonline.com/features/romantic-comedy-movie-poster-cliches/p1

We have found this useful when planning our photos for our film posters. The ideas we particularly like are 'Cliché #2: The Three Floaty Faces', 'Cliché #3: The Park Bench' and '#5: The Collage'.

We think the 'Three Floaty Faces' is appropriate because it can feature 3 heads; Paul, Lucy and Stella. If we were going to use this shot we would place Paul in the middle, conveying that he is having to choose between Lucy and Stella. The characters can make eye contact with the camera lens too which would captivate the potential audience. It clearly conveys the characters and the positioning of the characters can convey a lot about the characters. For example, if they faced the centre character it would show attraction whereas if they faced away it would give the opposite effect.

"The Park Bench" would be good because we have a few scenes set outdoors on chairs so this would give the audience an insight into the film's settings. Once again, the positioning of the characters can also convey a lot. If they sit close together it shows closeness emotionally whereas if they sat further away from each other it could convey shyness or dislike towards the other character. However, for this shot we may only be able to use 2 actors because 3 actors would look crowded and this wouldn't convey the storyline of the film clearly enough.

"The Collage" is a good idea because you can fit many characters and scenes onto the poster giving a large insight into the film's characters and settings. However, this would make it difficult to give the audience an insight into the actual storyline due to the large amount of images instead of one clear picture summarizing the film.

The "Three Floaty Heads" idea seems most suitable because it suits our film better than the other ideas do. We can place Paul in the middle with Lucy and Stella on either side of him. The characters can all stand close together conveying closeness and the two girls can face Paul with their bodies showing their attraction to him. These photos can easily be taken in a photography studio in our college which is easily acceptable instead of having to relocate.