My Film Poster

For my film poster I want it to bring across the message that my film will be very dark. I will do this by using very low lighting and also edit my photo so that it is very dark and almost black and white.

I took a few pictures which would be suitable for my film poster and that I thought would create the right effect. I narrowed my decision down to these two.

I decided to go for the image of the character sitting in the bath as this involves no blood. I was unsure whether it would be a good idea or necessary to have blood on my film poster.

I also thought that I would be able to edit the picture very well and I could see where I would fit the title and other information in.

I started the editing by reducing the saturation of the chosen picture. I did not do it too much as I did not want a complete black and white effect, instead I wanted a darker effect with a small hint of colour. I then increased the contrast to make the subject really stand out.

Next I made a faded black effect on the top and bottom of my photo, I did this by creating a new layer in photoshop then used the gradient tool.

I then started to add the title, there were three fonts I was interested in (see below) I decided on the first eroded font as it stood out well and looked effective. As I made the fade into black top, I thought that grey would be a suitable colour for poster title. I then used a slightly different grey and a smaller font for the actors names.

Some posters include "directed by", I did not do this as the director's name is already above the title as I acted and directed in the trailer.

I then moved on to add other text such as "coming soon" and theatre details.

The final text I added was distribution and production details on either side of the poster.

I felt that my film poster went very well, better than I expected. I have never used photoshop before so it was a program that was very new too me, however I learnt the basics fast and quickly made changes to my photo. I believe that my film poster put across the message that I wanted very well.