Bethany Harvey created several draft posters for her class project on the film "Tick Tock". She began with pencil sketches of her ideas, then used Photoshop to create digital versions. Her first poster draft was plain black and white, so she made changes to the second draft, such as adding color and elements like a clock inside the clown mask. For her final poster, Bethany chose a landscape orientation to make it stand out from typical portrait posters. She selected images of the mask, clock and cast to provide context about the horror film's genre and plot.

1. Ancillary Task
Poster
Bethany Harvey

2. Poster Drawings
Before producing my poster, I did a pencil draft on what I want it to look like. After I produced the first drawing draft, I
wanted to see what colours would work best so I coloured a third of the poster draft and then once I’d seen what colours I
liked, I made a new draft and coloured it all in.
For my poster, I didn’t want an image of the cast but a symbol from the film that will make it recognisable and I got this idea
from the Scream4 poster that I analysed previously. I did this because the Scream4 poster is recognisable and
rememberable and therefore, I wanted to produce a poster that has this same effect on the audience.
I drew these drawings, first with pencil, then pen and then all in colour so that I had an idea of what I wanted. I decided to
use the clown mask on my poster as I think it’s the most rememberable factor of the film and also clowns are sometimes
seen as scary so this supports the genre of the film and if not, then people will be encouraged to watch the trailer to see
what the films about if they can’t tell from the poster.
The one thing I did decided not to have on my poster is a slogan because I thought the poster could speak for itself and I
wanted it to be as plain but as rememberable as possible.

3. Poster Drawings continued...
Just in case I didn’t like my first poster draft, I produced some more drawings so that I can have two different ideas in which
I can use for my final poster.
This drawing is more informative than the other poster because it has the members of the cast in, the mask and a clock
which all emphasises the genre and also the name of the film ‘Tick Tock’.
However, on this magazine I made the background black so it suits the genre of the magazine better and I also found that I
didn’t put the age on the last poster idea, so I thought if I put it on this poster draft it would be more obvious to the
audience that it’s a horror because of the age restriction.
After the drawings, I produced them both on the computer to see which I’d like best and to see if my drawings went as
planned.

4. Poster Draft 1
After producing the drawings of an idea of what I want
my poster to look like, I produced the idea onto the
computer using Adobe Photoshop CS4. As you can see
the poster is plain but effective as it stands out.
However, from doing the drawings first and then
producing the poster I saw some things I would like to
change straight away.
Meanwhile, after producing the first draft of my poster,
my thoughts were that I didn’t like it and that I wanted
to change a few things to make it better and more
suitable and because of this I produced another poster
based off the same idea, but with the improvements I
wanted to make.
From the drawings I realised that I needed to put more
information on the poster so that the audience is more
than likely to look it up, therefore I added the website
of the film to the poster.

5. Poster 1 Final
After producing the first draft of my poster, there were
a number of changes that I wanted to make because I
later realised that I should have stuck to my drawings
because they looked better than the draft that I
produced.
The things I changed are;
• The colour of the background from black to white
because it contrasts the genre of the film.
• Inside the clowns face I added a clock so that the
name of the film it suited.
• I kept to the original idea and put an arc effect on the
Coming soon writing so that it looked more effective
and less plain.
• I also kept the idea from draft 1 of having the website
on the poster but moved it more central.
Because of these improvements my poster now looks
more effective to the horror genre so that it will attract
the right targeted audience.

6. Poster Draft 2
After producing the drawings of an idea of what I want
my second draft of my poster to look like I produced the
idea onto the computer using Photoshop CS4. While
producing my draft on the computer I come across
some implications that I didn’t realise I would have. This
was getting the image in the right place within the
letters. However, after guidance and tutorials I found
out how to do it and it became easy to do. Also, the
images I took needed to be taken in front of a green
screen so that I could move the red background of the
text behind the characters.
Meanwhile, after producing the draft of my next poster
idea, my thoughts were that the poster looked a little to
plain, because on my draft the writing was longer
vertically so it filled the page more. Therefore, there
were ideas that I thought could improve this so I
produced a next poster, based on this idea but making
improvements.

7. Poster 2 Final
After producing the first draft of my second poster idea, there were a number of changes that I
wanted to make because the previous poster draft looked to plain and there was a big gap.
There was only one change to this final poster idea and that was making it landscape. There were 2
reasons to why I did this and these were;
• To fill the page up more, so I
could spread the text out.
• To make it more unique and
different to other film posters
because the majority of them are
portrait rather than landscape.
Because of these improvements
my magazine now looks more full
and it still meets the criteria to
making the film look like a horror,
so that it attracts the right
audience.

8. FINAL CHOSEN POSTER
I chose this poster because it stands out from all the other typical portrait posters. Also, it has the images of the
mask, clock and the cast in which I feel is more effective towards the genre and also gives a thorough insight to
what the film is about and what the genre is.

9. Images I used for my Poster Ideas
These are the 5 images out of 25 images I took, that I chose to use
for my poster, that required a single image of each member of the
cast. However, I did have some implications, such as the far image
on the left of the blonde female, her picture is blurry because I
didn’t focus the camera correctly, however the sharpen and fixing
tool in Photoshop helped me to correct this without having to take
more photos.
I did the images behind a green screen so that I could put in the
red background that I needed a lot easier than it would have been
without it.
I chose these 5 images because they were suitable for the poster
and because their were no accidental errors on these images.