The 33

A Film Poster

Our task of the day was to create a film poster, depicting a new film called 'the 33', which is a hypothetical film about the 33 trapped miners in Chile in 2010. The film would be full of suspense and frightening scenes, I wanted to portray the ideas of the film in the poster, without giving away the ending that they manage to get out. I wanted the ending to be a surprise, so I designed the poster showing the suspense and people trapped in the mine on one side, and worried people praying on the other side, to show the desperation and fear from the miners and their loved ones.

I began by doing some research into the incident and saw many pictures from news websites depicting the men underground, but mainly the devices they were using to drill into the ground to try and save them. I decided to use a different picture of miners in my poster, as the real pictures from Chile were very low vis. I wanted to use a picture that showed how large the underground area was, and I wanted to portray them looking lost and worried, in a large mine. I used real pictures from news websites of the people outside, waiting and helping, trying to get these 33 men out. I then photoshopped 3 pictures onto one document, merging them together. The miners were on the left side and the worried people were on the right, to contrast their emotions, and to clearly show the people in daylight, and the miners in a large dark hole. Once I was happy with the photoshop document, I then made it in black and white, to make it tonally similar and so the pictures would go better with each other and I thought black and white would depict the suspense more successfully than bright colours. 

I then put the photoshop document into an InDesign document where I created the text over the top of the poster. I wrote 'The 33' in black and white to keep with the black and white theme of the poster. I decided to use a simple text so that it wouldn't draw any attention away from the pictures. I then wanted to make it look more realistic by showing a date to when it reaches cinemas. I used the same typography to write 'In cinemas in 2015' to add more interest to the poster. Below is the finished result.