My Poster

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This is my poster that I created on Photoshop Elements 8. To create this poster I had to add different effects and images to have it how I wanted it. The image on the left was the image I used for my poster, notice the lighting from the middle to the bottom of the image is much lighter that the poster. To do this I had to darken the image with the hand tool, I also darkened some areas from the top of the image. I added 5 layers over the image to give it a dark background, but then had to blend the image in with the dark background. Notice on the poster we can slightly see a line shadowing my brother's eye, and if we look closely we can make out another blurry image. this is because I used a picture of concrete texture and blended it in together to get that effect. the tagline "don't be affarid of the dark", in my opinion, works because of the darkness thats used in the poster and also because its part of what my trailer is about; lights switching off and a boy being trapped in a dark room.

The font was one of many fonts that I intended on using, I tried them all out but I thought this worked the best for this image. The colour of the font is something that I took under consideration from the poster examples that I looked at, I tried White but I thought that too much white will make it too bright, so I went with red, as well as the "coming soon" writing.

To create the film credits I had to download a free font from google: "free movie poster fonts" to get an actual font used for posters and I added my name and the cast names. Finally the last two images I used are logos used in many actual movie poster: Dolby Digital and  Restricted, which was not what I wanted to use because my trailer doesn't involve violence or any sexual scenes, also because the other fonts that I was looking for i.e. Universal or Paramount didn't have a white coloured logo, so I had to stick with this one. All in all I am happy with my poster, I believe it works well and theres just enough lighting to see the charecters faces.

with the help of Youtube I was able to create my poster, this was the video I watched that helped me create my poster:

There are 5 parts to this video but I thought I would upload this one to show how I blended that concrete floor with the picture, as shown here.

This is the video that showed me how and what to write for my poster credits: