Finished Film Poster

 

Evaluation

This is my finished film poster. I have followed several film poster conventions such as structure and text. I have used a little review "the deeper they go the harder they fall!" from a made up company 'RESPONSE'. The reason I have chosen to put this on the top left is that it is in a visible place to see but doesn't interfere with the effect of the two images. The way I have placed the two image is highly influenced from the poster of The Descent. This poster was my main inspiration from a psychological drama poster as it is appealing to the audience and has relevance to the story line. I had to thoroughly edit the two pictures to get the effect I was looking for. The bottom picture, to give it a night vision effect, I had to put a green layer over the top and edit the contrast and saturation to make it look as realistic as possible. I used the magic eraser tool to get rid of some of the brickwork around the edges to make it look kind of 'ripped' and 'torn'. I then changed the opacity of the image to fade it out a bit so that its not as bright and blends in with the background and the second image. All of these little changes I have made have been influence by a variety of different posters mainly The Descent. With the second image I also used the magic eraser tool to eliminate the cracks in-between the brick work so that when I moved it onto the black background the black would be in between the bricks. I then had to put a grey scale layer over this image to get rid of the green tint of moss from inside the mine. I did this because the two green colours from each image wasn't the same and so it didn't look quite right. The grey scale completely blacks out the figure and makes it look more mysterious. All of the editing for this poster I did on Photoshop CS5.I kept the colours to a minimum as I really want the green from the main image to stand out. I put colour on the the little review section on the top left as reviews are what people look for to 'persuade' them to watch the film.

To make my title I made a new layer and entered my text. I chose between several fonts and colours and asked a few people which looked better, this font and colour had the most amount of likes and so I used this. Once I had found my text I used the 'wind' effect to scatter the edges of the letters to give it an old worn effect. I then used the 'Liquify' tool to distort the letters. The institutional information at the bottom below the image is another media convention which i have followed. I squished up the text at the bottom to mimic how other posters have displayed this information. I wasn't to sure what to write here so I wrote the release date, the production company and a list of people involved. I don't think there is much more I could have done to follow media conventions or to make my poster look more professional.