The document describes the process of creating a horror movie poster. First, the creator took photos from the film locations, focusing on an image of the main character being captured in the basement, which had a creepy atmosphere. To enhance the creepy feel, the creator used editing tools to add a jagged edge, dull the colors, and create a silhouette of the villain character. Text was then added with a distorted, static effect. References were provided showing how similar textured effects were used in other horror posters to give a gritty, chilling feel. Tutorials were followed to learn how to create cracked, distressed text for the poster's title.

1. To create the poster we first took images whilst filming in some of the locations seen in the film, while we did try each location
taking photographs of characters during filming sessions ultimately the best photograph was in the basement when “Abby
Walters” gets captured, the basement has old tools, chipped paint on old brick walls and gives off a very creepy horror vibe.

2. First using the eraser tool I
created a rough and
jagged edge to the image,
allowing the dull
background colour to be
seen in the far corners of
the image, I then wanted
to dull the image down as
currently the image alone
isn’t scary enough and
was too bright, so in an
new layer, using the brush
tool I drew around the
masked villain character
creating an outline and
filled the layer in leaving
only the silhouette of the
character open.

3. I then filed in the
silhouette with a lower
opacity black and then
toned down the entire
layers opacity down so
that it could overlay on
top of the image dulling
some of the colours and
making the poster darker
and more sinister
looking. The reason I
made the sillute paler in
opacity than the rest of
the black of the
background was to allow
more of the bright
photograph to seep in so
that the masked villain
stood out more amongst
the dull background.

4. Next using some brushes I
downloaded whilst following a
text effect tutorial on YouTube
for my title of the poster, I used
the effect not only on text but
also on the overall image
adding a distorted and static
effect to the image. Once the
effect was created I used a low
opacity eraser brush and
rubbed out a vague silhouette
of the masked villain so once
again the character doesn’t get
lsot within the deep colours
and distorted effects.

5. Here is the image after I had turned down the opacity of the
textured effect and overplayed it on top of the image to create a
subtle but effective gritty texture to really go for the horror poster
feel which can be seen in some of the posters I used as inspiration
below.
As you can clearly see, all of
these posters feature noise or a
textured effect on the images
which give off a gritty and
chilling effect which is
something I wanted to try and
capture in my poster.

6. Here is the tutorial that I watched which created a really interesting effect to simple text and looked very professional and
horror poster-esque, some of the ideas I had been trying were more horror font however rthis cracked distorted texture is
something that I think stands out and also looks very realistic in the sense that it looks very professionally made.

7. Here are some for the stages from the tutorial to show how the text starts off and how eventually the creator slowly, using
multiple layers and custom brushes creates the effect

8. Here are the custom brushes I downloaded that
the tutorial suggested and here are some of the
stages I went through whilst creating the text
effect for the poster.