I wanted to get an idea for how my poster would look in context so one thing I did (partly for my own personal satisfaction) was mock up a DVD case and see how it looked then. From this I decided to take the feedback on the title seriously as I felt it looked a bit simplistic as it was with the dark blue all the way through. It just wasn't strong enough it looked thin and as if I was making do. Also seeing the billing block on the back cover decided for me that I wanted it on the blue background where it would stand out much better.
Next I tried stripping back the poster and getting the main title and so forth up to scratch. I tried a few fonts and ended up sticking with the original but bolder and in white with a navy blue outline. This seems to me a drastic improvment. I also tried putting the billing block (now in dark blue) under the title and felt it fitted in much better there although I had to get rid of the 'a film by Xanthe Z. Young' to keep it looking neat.
I still liked the other charectors in threshhold but I decided to experiment having them around the edge. The 'Eagle Vs. Shark' poster made use of positioning the charectors upsidedown to give the film a more quirky feel so I tried this with some of the charectors here. I think it worked well but I didn't like that Michael was no longer a major part of the poster as the film is really about his relationship with Joe.
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