Poster Example - Phone Booth

PEOPLE

The poster includes a fairly well-known actor - Colin Farrell. The poster also includes the three other main characters - the main character's girlfriend, his wife and the cop that helps him - but emphasizes mainly on the victim in the Phone Booth. This makes the viewer feel that the victim is the only character that is important, which is true as the film is only seen through his perspective - trapped in the claustrophobic phone booth.

DESIGN

The design of this poster is fairly intricate, with the victim in the phone booth, obviously panicking and distressed with the text placed to fit the booth. In the phone booth, there is a bullet hole, which could suggest the hostage situation to the viewer before he/she has seen the film. In the reflection of the phone booth, the other characters can also be seen.

COLOR

The color of the poster is very pale. There is little color variation except for the skin tone of the victim in the booth. The only other variation is the text "your life is on the line" which is written in Red.

TITLE

The title is very clearly written in a slightly "razor-sharp" font. It is also written to match up in a parallel with the side of the phone booth.

OTHER INFORMATION

The poster also includes a very clever tagline which is meant to draw a double meaning between the victim's situation an the irony of the phone booth - "your life is on the line".