Misleading Film Poster

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind misleading poster

I decided to create a misleading film poster for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The original genres of Eternal Sunshine are Drama, Romance and it also has strong elements of Sci-Fi. When making the poster I decided to try and make the film appear like a horror. I did this by starting of with looking at the darkest scenes of the film. I found 4 images that I used in my poster. I started with an image of Clem where she was very pale and had a frightened and sort of blank expression. I put this at the top of the poster because it was the boldest image. I then found an image of the character Joel, his expression shows that he is sad but he does look a bit scared as well. I used a dark picture of the 2 characters close both looking concerned in a dark location. I made sure that in all the images they were wearing the same clothes so that it is set in a small amount of time. The last image was of an unknown character with his face blanked out, this is a disturbing looking image that can easily relate to horror. I then put dark red rectangles in to keep some of the images separate and clear. I then used a tall font for the title and dark red text. Underneath I put the tag line which is ‘Clear your mind’. This is actually one of the tag lines for the film, but in the context of this poster it sounds more creepy and odd. I put this text in grey so that is would blend into the background a bit. I used a different font for the tag line; it is also tall but less square-like. I then used the same font and colour for the 2 actor names. I only put 2 names to represent the main characters so that more was not given away about other characters and so that it was no obvious who the man with the blank face was. The overall poster is quite dark with a lot of black, but some parts are really bright to make a good contrast (such as Clem’s hair and character’s faces).