TYPES OF FILM POSTER
A film poster (also called a movie poster) is a poster used to advertise a film. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets. They normally contain an image with text. Today’s posters often feature photographs of the main actors.
Film posters are displayed inside and on the outside of movie theaters, and elsewhere on the street or in shops.
There are different types of film posters there are three types of common poster these are teaser poster, character posters and lobby cards.

TEASER POSTER
Teaser posters are small film posters that reveal the films releash without giving away too much of the film such as main characters were the film is set or the plot the main purpose of the teaser poster is to raise awareness of the film and generate Hype so that people go to see the film that is why it is called a teaser poster as it teases the people looking at it so that there curiosity gets the better of them and they will go and look the film up and even go and see it when the film is released this is an old trick people use in advertising an old trick but it has proven to work time and time again when the film is released teaser posters stop being produced while the film is out as the general hype of people talking about the film will spark the interest of others.

CHARACTER POSTER
A character poster is usally only made if there are group of people in the cast that act as stand alone characters these film posters are usally pretty big and can be seen on the side of buses on adshells and sometimes on the side of buildings the posters usally include a photograph of the actor and a sideline that best describes the character in which the actor is playing my favourite example of this was Guy Richy’s film “Sherlock Holmes: a game of shadows” in which each of the main actors in the film were given there own character poster. A character poster is not as popular with the collectors like other posters.

LOBBY CARDS
Lobby cards are smaller posters usually eleven by fourteen inches in size lobby cards are collected and their value depends on there age quality and popularity lobby cards usally get sold in sets of eight and each card shows a different scene in the film  although certain films that were poular enough had no sets of lobby cards as the directors usally felt the films did not need them the best example of this film would be Micheal mann’s cult classic ” ManHunter”