poster developement

Poster development

 To create the poster, I took all the inspiration from the research mood board I created and made sure that our posted had characteristics that other popular film poster have. The first decision I had to make was what would be my central character/ object to initially catch the viewers’ attention. To do this, I had to find photos that I could potentially turn into a film poster.

The image I decide to edit into a photo was a capture taken from the house scene of the film. I think the helmet and gloves play a big part in the film because motor bike are featured a lot in the film and it will make a good central piece as it is interesting and could lead the viewer to find out more.

The next step was cropping out the background of the scene and putting in a black background to make the central object more eye-catching. Then using the quick selection tool, I duplicated certain parts of the helmet so that I can colour them in a vibrant red when I put a black and white filter over the main helmet. Adding a black and white filter other the image but have red highlights, means that I have something to intrigue the viewer of the poster.

Once I had the main feature and background of the poster all finished, I had to add the other common features of mainstream posters. These include, the tittle of the film, reviews by famous reviewers, credit tittle etc. Once I roughly positioned where I wanted all these to placed, I decided on how big I wanted them, to be and how they work with the other features of the poster.

Finally after finalising them, I added our production logo and the agreed certificate that we would use. This made the poster seem a lot more believable and realistic to the viewer. With doing this I also eye dropped the colour of the highlighted helmet to match the colour of the text title, this mean that the colours don’t seem random and they match in the poster.

After doing all this, I wanted to add something else that would interest the viewer if they were to look at the poster up close. I decided to take a frame from the shot the robin in the film and to place it in the visor of the helmet. To do this I had to select the robin and crop it out of its background and place it in the poster. I had to make sure I places it below the black and white filter so that the bird would also be black and white. Then I turned down the opacity of the bird so that it gave an effect that the bird was shown in the reflection of the poster. That was the final thing I needed to do before the poster was complete.

 

The final Poster