Back Turned Posters 1/4

For my coursework I also need to do a poster for the film as well as a magazine cover. Here are some examples of posters for recent or upcoming films, all the same genre as my film (Science-Fiction)  and they all follow the same conventions and are possible examples for what I could design my poster as. That being having their main character be facing away from the character, looking off into the distance.

The top two, "Captain America: The Winter Solider" and "Elysium" both use a motif of their movies as the focus for their posters, for Captain America it is his shield, and for Elysium, it is the exo-skeleton. The shield is iconographic for the character of Captain America and the exoskeleton is a massive plot device for Elysium and has a lot of focus.

While here there is "World War Z" and "Star Trek Into Darkness" where the main focus is on the destruction caused in their films. As well as their big selling point, for WWZ it's Brad Pitt and for Star Trek it is Benedict Cumberbatch, which goes against convention; here the antagonist is on the poster, instead of the protagonist.





And finally here, the focus on these two movies are on their enviornments, not their characters. The poster for "Ender's Game" shows that the film takes place in space. While "Oblivion" is shown to take place in a post-apocalyptic enviornment. However this is odd for Oblivion seeing as they have a massive star (Tom Cruise) and yet the poster focuses on the enviornment, not the actor.




All of these posters fulfill their roles of getting across their own genres, and while all of them are sci-fi, they are alterations of the sci-fi genre, for here there are superhero films such as Captain America and Zombie Apocalypse films such as World War Z; while the other four posters follow the more conventional science-fiction genre, showing elements of space, robots, spaceships and action & destruction. However this is not the only genre out there that does this, it is a very common design for movie posters these days, although it is usually used for Sci-Fi's or Fantasies seeing as there is a lot of CGI used in the posters. This style of poster is normally used for teaser posters of their movies, and normally come out with a new type of poster closer to the release date. However seeing as my poster is only a teaser, it is likely that this is the design that I will use, however I am still unsure on what exactly my poster would look like.