Making My Poster

I held a photoshoot with my actor to try and get a photo for my poster and magazine front cover. I took a variety of my photos when Izzy was dancing to try and get action shots of her. I decided on the photo below for my poster and decided that I wanted this one for my poster, I then proceeded to put it into Photoshop to edit it and make it look more professional.

This is the original photo that I had, I placed a photo over the top of this to try and add some more colour to the original picture. 

I then cut Izzy out of the picture and made her a duplicate, this means that I can place her above this new colourful layer. I needed to do this because when I added the new layer, it started to block her face. By cutting her out I could place her above the rest of the layers, I placed her specifically so the image of her on the background layer then became her shadow. 

I then changed the colouring of the background layer to, lighten the whole image. This drop down menu gave us a lot of different options that would change the colour of the image. I found that the best colour overlay, was 'colour dodge', it made the picture brighter and slightly opaque, meaning that we could see the background layer slightly darker in the background.

Once I had done everything to the background layers, I added in my font. I transferred it from my other file and placed it onto this file. I however found that now with all the colour on the photo, the purple colour no longer worked.

To tackle this I decided to add a white line behind it. I used the paint brush tool to get a white block behind, however, I felt that the solid white block would be way to harsh, therefore I changed the brush type to more of a graffiti style brush. This added to the 'feel good' genre as we are moving away from the harsh solid lines, which connotes a tougher more serious feel. 

I then needed to follow convention of film posters and add the names of the actors. To begin with I only added on the name of my main protagonist as I felt it was all I needed. However, afterwards I realised that really that did not actually look very good, especially because I had originally made it purple, which did not look good with the background. 

I then decided to change it to include the two name on either side and make the black. This then became much more conventional and made it easier for the audience to read on the poster as the black really contrasts with the bright yellow and pink colours. 

I have also changed the fonts that I used on the first one, I did this because I found that it was too thin and not easy to read. I then used a similar font but chose one that was slightly thicker, this helped as it still looked very standard, but still easy to read.