Creating The Poster

We had to make a poster which would accompany our film. Stuart was the one of our group who was most familiar with desing software such as photoshop so he made it while I contributed ideas and advice. We went out into Canford Heath and took a range of different pictures. We decided that we would use a picture of the sun beaming through some trees for our final poster.

Then, using Paint Shop Pro 8, me and Stuart began to edit the photo.

 

First we changed the colour, contrast and brightness to overall enhance the picture to get it to look like what we wanted.

Then Stuart used the paint tool to Darken all around the edges of the photo which made the viewer to look centrally at the image. It also created a sense that the edges where closing in which we felt fitted well with our film. Also by darkening the image it looked a lot more forboding.

From our Research we had found that the cast, producer, editor, director, distributor and production company were all featured in small writing at the bottom of the poster. Stuart did this in White and cleverly darkened the background further around the text so it was easier to read. Also Stuart added our the logos of the production companies and distribution companies.
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