Our Film Poster

Editing our film poster

(Click image above to englarge the process of editing our film poster)

1. Top Left - We were going to shoot pictures of the characters but we wanted to keep an element of mystery to our film poster so we used a photograph from Jessica's AS photography. We added the black and white to effect to it in photoshop elements 4.0. Through looking at film posters and analyzing them, i noticed that most of the photos have all the hue drained from them or are in black and white or sepia. Afterwards, we used the dodge tool to blur and lighten sections of the photo where text would be so it looks readable.

2. Top Center - As our trailer features a pram theme, we thought we could try to incorporate this into the poster. We took a photo of the pram on a white background and then blacked it out to create a silhouette of it, we decided to shrink it and blend it in with the background, also darkening it. This will make the audience think and also give them a hint as to what to expect in the film.

3. Top Right - In our trailer, we feature a protagonist. We do not see his face but just his actions, such as walking, running and the back of his head. We did not want to feature the killers face so we made a silhouette of a man on paint and transfered it over to photoshop. This person in our poster could be the victim or the attacker, we do not know. This makes the audience think, it's mysterious. Also, we edited in the credits at the bottom featuring the producers, sound engineers, film company etc. All posters have this for legal reasons and so they can give credit where it's needed. This is included small at the bottom of our poster so it does not take the attention away from everything else.

4. Bottom Left - The caption at the top of the poster gives an idea if the genre as the font is scary and the word 'Death' is linked to horror, macabre and scary things! The font is kept black and simple and placed over the dodged section so it is clear. We got the font from the website dafont.com and we copy and pasted it.

5. Bottom Center - We added the title in the bottom center of the film poster. We used the same font as the caption featured at the top but slightly bigger.

6. Bottom Right. - We asked our target audience what they thought of our film poster and they said something was missing. We did some research and analyzed some more film covers and we decided it was the actors names. We added these three just below the caption at the top.

Finished.