Our Film Poster

To create our film poster we used Photoshop CS3 we decided this would be the most efficient way for us to create the effect we wanted. To start with we decided on an image luckily jade from our group had recently been out with them both on a trip to London on new years eve, she decided to take some natural shots of them together that we could then use within our film poster. Here is the image we decided to use:  

The image of we chose is them just about to kiss each other, which looks really “intimate” which is what we want to create. This image also looks really natural which is what I think makes it look unique and will stand out within the image. The setting of this image also works really well as the lighting looks really romantic and natural is also makes them the main focal point within the image. However the image is the wrong shape for a film poster, so we will have to crop it to the right shape in order to use it as our poster.

 To make this image into a film poster we started by placing the title we had created on top of the image. We did this however we felt that it wasn’t the right font for our film poster, as it didn’t stand out enough we decided to change the font so that it would stand out. So we used the website called dafont.com and we picked the text Impact Label: 

 We felt that this impact label text would work really well against our poster background. Also it gave us a really strong title. we also added the hands around the T and the I:

I love the new title, I think it looks really effective.  It makes the title stand out and look really professional. I then edited the image to make it have a grainy effect to make this I went on the filters. I then created this effect:  

Here you can see the image with a different effect it looks very vintage which works really well and creative. as you can see we have also cropped this image to make it in the shape of a film poster. I think this image is going to work really well. 

We then used the text tool to add in the main actresses and actors names we decided to go with a simple text a lot like the research posters that we found it is also a light grey so it stands out against the background. We also made there second names bold as we also thought this created a really unique effect.  

We then added our billing block, we decided to create this in powerpoint first so that it would be easier to insert onto our poster, we also used the same font and colour as we did for the names, as we felt this would make our poster consistent and really professional. This was all we had to do to create our poster here is our finished poster. 

Here is our finished poster I think it looks really creative and professional it also doesn't give much away about our story line, I really like the effect of the grain over the top of the image as i think it makes the image look like it was taken on an old camera and looks really effective. The image looks really effective as it is the main focal point in the image and I think this creates a really eye catching effect, and immediately alerts the audience to the genre of our film. I think our poster would really stand out when placed with other romance posters. I am really pleased with the outcome and cannot wait to film our trailer now as i think we have a really solid idea.