Mock up images in the style of American Posters

Playing around on Photoshop and creating a few gangster images that are similar to the posters of: The Godfather, Scarface and American Gangster.

Generic conventions used: 3 colours:- black (gives a sense of ambiguity, blacking out most of the image), white (to highlight main features and give it that
classic appeal to the genre) and a small bit of red(violence,
blood; the dark side to being a mafia)
Italian get up:- fedora hat, high polished smart cut suits,
high polished shoes ( shows the luxurious side to
being in the mafia)
Guns:- (optional; another sign of wealth and a sense of the
hierarchical system within the mafia)



We may use the colour scheme possibly for our main characters clothes and somehow incorporate it into our poster and magazine colour, but more subtlety.

We wouldn't have the characters wearing fedora hats because, it would insinuate that our trailer would be about American gangsters, when we are focusing on British gangsters.
We also wouldn't have the types of guns they are holding, as we are going for a more modern approach and we may not feature guns in our posters or magazine cover. If we were to use guns they would be BB guns.