Poster Production 2

I started off by editing the photo so that the light coming through the trees did not look so bright and warm, something which a horror poster should not be. This was done by cutting out the parts which were light and welcoming, on a new layer.

I then changed the colour to black and white, which got rid of this warm and welcoming feeling the current sunlight colour did. 

I then edited the photo by using the 'cloud' effect to make it further appear dull and gloomy. 

This edited the whole photo, so it meant that I had to open the original photo on a different page and cut around her head, erasing the sky. I then transferred her head onto the main edit. 

I then changed the opacity of the 'cloud' effect so it did not look odd and unrealistic. 

After this, I then used the smudge and blur tool to blend the effect into the photo, making sure that it did not look blocky between the sky and the bushes and to make them blend into each other, so that it blurred the background slightly and the protagonist is the main attraction.

Once this was complete, I decided that it did not look as 'sinister' as I thought it would so I decided to use the gradient tool to give it a black shadow over the top of the poster. 

Poster Production 1

Due to my favorite photograph taken being landscape it caused me to question whether this would be an appropriate photo to use as all the posters I had analysed had been portrait, which suggested to me that this was conventional for a poster. However, I then decided to do some further research and found that having a landscape poster was just as normal as having a portrait and have been used on some of the most successful films. As well as this, landscape posters had also been used for many horror films and I felt that they worked well if not better than having a portrait poster as it opens up the poster and allows you to see a lot more of the location of the film.

Poster photoshoot

As my sketches for the poster varied from one another, I decided to try out a  range of different shots that I thought would work well.

The first lot of photographs I felt did not give a big enough clue as to what the film was about and lacked anything exciting or sinister. As well as this, due to it showing the whole of her body and lots of the scenery behind her, I felt that it was too similar to the photograph I had used for the double page.

After going through these photos at home, I arranged another photo shoot with the cast and this time took into consideration the faults of the last photos taken. I took a lot more close up photos this time round to show the emotion of the protagonist and also played around a lot more with the masked man in the background of the photo. Here are the photos;

My favorite photograph from the shoot was the third one as I felt that it was most fitting for the film, without giving to much away. I made sure that it didn't give too much away by using the same masked man and therefore not spoiling the other masks used in the film.

Double Page Production 4

With all the text added in, it left me with a lot of room left over and I felt that if I was to bulk up the article with more text it would look like too much text. This is when I decided to add in a pull quote. I felt that by adding in a pull quote it was not only conventional, but it also broke up the heavy text and therefore shifted the text down slightly, meaning there was a lot less room.

I made this pull quote firstly by designating a place where it would be. 

I then shifted and worked the text around this space on both sides. 

I then added in a pull quote that I felt was most exciting from the article and edited it accordingly to fit in with the rest of the article.

This then lead to shifting the rest of the article down and filling in the large gaps in between the text.