The document describes the process of creating a movie poster in Photoshop. Key steps included cutting out the main character from her background, adding a spooky forest background in vignette style, placing the character in the rule of thirds composition, converting to black and white with red eyes to convey horror, and adding typical poster elements like the title, reviews, credits, and age rating. The finished first draft poster utilizes black, white, and red colors to set the scary tone and include conventions expected in horror movie posters.

1. Poster Editing

3. • To create our poster we have used Photoshop
as it has many tools we can use to make out
movie poster look professional.
• We started off by cutting around an image of
Maddie’s character so that we could put her
easily against our background.
• It took us a long time to cut around her image
as there were a lot of folds in her clothes
and hairs coming off her head which were
difficult to cut around.
• To cut around her we used the cutting tool
that is on Photoshop.

5. • We then got the picture of our background (the
woods) and put it in a vignette filter to use as
the background.
• We have decided to use the woods as the
background as it is a main location of our film
and it also creates a spooky effect. We have
made it vignette so that the focus is on
Maddie and to again create a chilling effect.
• The woods is also a conventional location of a
horror and connotes isolation and mystery.

7. • Once we had put the background in we then decided to put Maddie on our
poster in the rule of thirds (her being in the first third) so that the main focus is
on her but so you can also clearly see the background.
• We then decided that our poster should be in black and white as it looks more
professional and also creates a ghostly effect.
• We then made Maddie’s eye’s a piercing, bright red to connote that she is evil
and to also make it look like she is giving this piercing look to the viewer of the
poster.
• Red eyes on a horror movie poster is a typical convention and helps to set the
dark mood of the poster.

9. • We have now added the typical conventions of a movie
poster such as title, reviews, a billing block and the age
rating.
• We have made our title red and in the top centre of the
poster so that it is a main focus point and people will
know the movie we are advertising.
• We then cut out four black stars which we got off the
internet and wrote a review in white.
• Finally we wrote out the billing block, containing all the
names of important people who have helped create the
film and put it at the bottom next to the age rating.
• We have kept the colours black, white and red to connote
horror, blood and supernaturalism and to keep within
the mood of our poster.
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11. • This is our first finished poster draft.
• We have decided to add another convention
of a movie poster by adding names of the
actors that appear within the film.
• By seeing what actors appear in our film,
viewers may enjoy these actors and think
they are talented and therefore be more
persuaded to see our film.