Cinema is one of the most important social communication tools of our time, as a rich art form under the seventh title, appealing to our sense of sight and hearing. Events and situations in every subject can be conveyed to the audience by using the visual power of cinema. Today, we live in the age of communication, our environment is surrounded by many works on visual communication design. Poster design, which has an important place in these design works, stands out from other graphic design works in terms of its ability to reach the majority of the society easily and its power of expression. The viewer who has no knowledge of the film; movie posters, which allow people to get an idea about the subject, content and actors of the movie, should be remarkable in this context. For this reason, the arrangements in the design principles-elements used in order to convey the message given on the poster to the audience and to be perceived correctly are gaining importance. In this study, it was tried to investigate how the "Sivas" movie poster conveyed the information about the movie to the audience with the visual communication elements and design principles it used.
Keywords: Poster design, movie poster, documentary movie poster, semiology, semiology