Movie poster design

When design movie poster. We have to consider lots of things.

Where is your eyes going - liens in the poster helps to guide it with colour , text and pictures.

usually the poster have the main protagonist in the centre of the poster  and the design is based around it .

Fount is also very important. Some times fount changes according to the genre of the film but usual people use very simple fount that can be read easily.  Trajan and Helvetic are the most used fonts.

compositing in green screen for my film

Three is three main elements which I always consider while compositing the green screen.

1. Proportion

2.  Depth

3. Colour correction and grading.

The proportion of the subject and the background should match.  I pick one tree of the photography and blur every thing else and in that way I made the photo from one dimension to 2 dimension. 

i colour correct the subject according to the back ground and graded as same colour so they match more as more sellable. 

use of white screen colours

White screen gives lots of different effects for the film. I wanted to wake up in an unknown place of nothing and white room deliver that perfectly.  

I kept the white back screen two stop higher then so ...because i wanted to blow the whole white screen so there will b only me in the screen. 

location scouting

When I was doing my location scouting ...I was looking places with cinematic value for my film genre.  

This location have that romantic feeling and plenty of opportunities to create depth. 

This location is perfect for the night scene with a moon light and lamp light .

This room have the personality... U can see the persons personality in it. 

who's story it is ?

In every scene before I set my camera. I ask my director who's scene is this and who's story.
So I can frame the story from that person.  But some times both the character are important. for example in Irse shoot both her character were important as it is a love story. So I decided to go by the situations.  In some case the scene were focus on one charcter more then the other. So I did get both of them in every scene but try to weighted according to the situation. 

Importance of art direction

Set dressing and costume helps to create the mood in the film. For   a cinematographer also  set dressing and costume is very important.  What we see through the eye of lens is the performance of the actor and there surrounding/environment which can either bring the audience in or out of the movie.

The colour what we place in the set and the choose of colour for the costume can help to set the tone and the feeling to the particular scene. 

re think before pressing record and dont press stop.

Before recording its always good to recheck things.
Frame and whats in the frame.
Weather the things will surve the story or not.
What is the mood of the actor.

let the actor play after the scene also ...
dont say cut between the performance.
some times that post performance can be more useful.