How I Created my Poster

This was the photograph I used to make my poster. I decided to edit the photograph In Photoshop so that I could control every aspect of how I wanted to make the poster. The first thing I did to this photograph was use the quick select tool to grab the model in the photograph. I then copied her onto a black canvas, the size of an A4 page. Looking at the photograph, I decided that I did not like how the arm on the right had some space around it and I didn't like this. I decided to crop the photograph to get rid of this. Because normally cropping the photograph would have meant that the page would have been smaller than the A4 page I wanted, I clicked on front image which means that the image is cropped but stays the same size as the original page size before. Because some of the hair had gaps in the grey background of the starting image came through. To resolve this I used the spot healing tool, which grabbed the colour of the hair and blended it to make it look like hair was covering each gap. Because some of the hair had bigger gaps than others, mainly on the left hand side of the image I decide to paint over the hair so it looked like my models hair was in a ponytail. I then used the paint brush to go around my model so that I could cover any grey edging that had been left when copping the image over.

 

After I did this I decide to change how the model looked, using the spot healing tool to get rid of any imperfections and the shine on her face. I also adjusted the brightness and contest so that the shadowing on the model would be stronger, thus making her look even more evil. I then flattened the photograph so that if I were to make any adjustments the background would be the model as well as the black background as well. Because I knew where I wanted to position my model and how I wanted the shadowing on her to look I was able to flatten the image. If I was not 100% sure then I would not have flattened the image because this means that I can still move my model about.

The image still was not eye-catching enough and so I decided to turn the photograph black and white and make a small amount of the photograph the focal point. I decide that the top my model was wearing and the necklace she had on would be a good focal point as they are both a bright red and so would grab the audience’s attention. These were both black and white though so I had to find a way of turning them back to colour. I remembered that the erase tool would erase any details added to the photograph other than the background so I went over the top with the erase tool so that the red top and necklace would become the bright red it was before changing it to black and white.

I looked through the fonts to find the same font as I had used for my trailer but I could not find it. I then decided to print scream the text 'SURVIVAL' and then pasted it onto the poster. Because the title of the film was copied from a black background, the face was covered by the title and black background, so I decided to use the erase tool to rub out the background and keep the text. I then moved the text to where I wanted it which was on the top of the head. I adjusted the brightness and contrast of the text a little so that the text was a little stronger in visibility.

I noticed that some posters had stars to represent reviews and i wanted to make my poster as believeable and relevent as possible. I used a star from google images and erased the white background so that the stars would look good on the black background. I then duplicated the stars so that there were five in a row and added a well known newspaper to the underneath of it so that it seemed that the newspaper reviewed the film. I looked at the poster so far and then decided that it looked uneven and so i decided to add another rewiew on the other side of the model.