Billing Block



A billing block is used for films to reference the order and other aspects of how credits are presented for films.

Within a billing block there are key conventions which are:

• Positioned at the bottom of the poster
• All written in capital letters
• Names are in a larger font than all other text
• Underneath the billing block are the film companies used e.g. Warner Brothers

Examples of Billing Blocks:

Shutter Island Film Poster

127 Hours Film Poster




Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Film Poster


The three film posters sourced are all from different genres such as, comedy and thriller yet they all follow the same suit when it comes to the billing block. The coventions are all there such as the font sizes, posistioning on the poster and the information included



Sucker Punch Billing Block

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When Creating our own billing block we as a group followed the fomat and layout of the 'Sucker Punch' billing block for guidance.

Our Billing Block:


I feel this billing block is effective as it follows conventions of, size, fonts, layouts and information from professional billing blocks. We decided upon white font due to the genre of film. The trailer and poster are going to have a dark background to be in keeping with the darkness of the film, so having a white billing block would make it stand out and look prominate against all else around.