Conventions of posters

List of conventions for poster

- Tagline's - short catchy sentence, indicate genre, shows storyline

- Title

- Image - usually one dominant image MISE-EN-SCENE

- Actor name

- Release date

- Rating - explanation next to allow the audience to see why it is rated that

- Production company logos

- Website/social media links - usually at the bottom

- Billing block (credits)

- Sound logos - companies which produce the sound for the movie

- Indication of genre - colour palette, font, images, colour, setting, props ((iconography which is mise-en-scene)

- Reviews - reference to genre, superlatives, stars  not on a teaser poster, usually on posters a month before the film

- Making reference to previous films

- Reference to merchandise

- Reference to source material

- Reference to format