WEEK 16 - 17

The text for the film I created for my film I decided to incorporate it into my film poster.

I thought the idea of a film poster dominated by text would be a different approach. In doing so it meant I would have to put a lot of effort into the text as that would be the subject for my poster. So what was actually a design meant for a landscape layout, I transformed the text into a portrait A4 image, as I could work better with that layout. I also added fire to the top of my text so I gave of the image that it was on fire. In order for me to make it look more realistic I brightened up the text (top half mainly) so it literally looked lit up.

Here’s my first draft poster. As you can see the text in the centre looks more yellow and is brighter. I decided to use the render tool > lighting effects on the text to emphasize its significance and also to darken the edges at the same time. Looking at other film posters for horror films I noticed that it’s normal for the edges on the poster to be black or any other really dark colour. This puts all the attention on to whatever’s in the centre. I decided to reverse the roles of the text and the picture because usually on film posters the image is usually dominant and the text would be there to support it. However in this case it is the other way round.

As you can see I also took time out to make a little production logo for originality and detail. This gives my poster more realism (this is located in the bottom right of my poster.