Film Poster

Using the photographic skills, we had to make a film poster in the genre of our choice.
Before this task I had never used a camera (in a technical way at least) or fireworks. My skills have developed from nothing to being able to create something. I learnt about the aperture and shutter speed when using the camera. Also about depth of field which may not be apparent in the final poster but the original pictures has signs of it. We set the ISO to 200 to make the image look sharper. We counteracted camera shake by using a tripod.

We made the poster by taking two photos, one of an eye and one of a hole in the wall. We then layered it so that the eye was behind the hole so that it looks like somebody looking through. We chose the genre of horror so we wanted it to look menacing. To create this we used the smudge tool around the edge of the hole so that it looked like the eye was appearing from the darkness, this also helped it looked less edited in. The wall was originally a magnolia colour which we altered to red and yellow stripes to fit our "haunted fairground" idea. We again used the smudge tool so that the stripes were not so flat and perfect as we wanted it to look slightly abandoned. We wanted the hole too look as though it had been punched out or ripped out quite violently which is why we took the red and yellow off of the wall to give it the sense of being pushed through, and the fun element of a fairground to have been ripped away in the presence of the eye. We then found the perfect font which looks like the font used on the names of rides at a theme park, we named it "The Ride" to aid ambiguity. The tag line gives the viewer a strikingly obvious clue as to what is going to happen in the film. so that it is definately obvious that it is a horror. We then faded the text slightly as when it was not faded it looked very flat and very edited. We felt that with it faded it looked slightly more professional as it didn't have just heavy black text on top of a fairly neutral background. We decided against using actors names and avoided text on the poster as we wanted ours to be a teaser poster, and having done some research, all the posters had were the main image, film title, tag line (maybe), director (maybe) and distributors and often "coming soon" or something similar.

Many of the techniques used in our poster were discovered through experimentation, me and my partner had no experience of the software and feel our skills have developed quite well for a first time attempt.