The document describes the process of creating a horror movie poster for a class project. [1] The student began by taking black and white photos to use in the poster and experimenting with layouts in Photoshop. [2] After choosing a font called "Angel" and inverting its color, the student worked on positioning photos and blending elements together. [3] Feedback suggested adding some color, so in a later draft the student gave the antagonist bloodshot eyes to bring subtle color into the otherwise black and white poster.

1. In order to create a successful poster I had to get to grips with the programs needed, I began
to draft up a series of mocks using photos I had taken to test the stills camera. My photos
were these, for the trees and tent images I changed my camera settings to black and white
which would make it look more effective and be quicker when it came to editing later.

2. Once I had these images, I could play around with them and put them
into a layout that I liked at the time. By using dafont.com I was able to
look through various fonts from different genres that would help fit the
stylistic elements needed on my poster to make it work. In my first draft
I used quite a basic one but as I progressed I found one called ‘Angel’
after changing it to ‘Black Crow Woods’ I believed it fit in with my theme
and looked the part. I then placed it into Photoshop and inverted the
colour to fit onto my poster.
When I had the font, I could place around the layout and
position the photos onto my poster on Photoshop that I
had took for my first draft in order to get a feel for how I
wanted it to be structured. I used a lot of tools to help
blend everything together as you can see from the eyes
and the trees in one. Each item on this toolbar helped me
produce something that can be used for my final drafts. I
believe I used each bit of technology from still cameras to
Photoshop to the best of my ability.

3. From my first two drafts I developed my poster a lot in terms of the look . Once I had learnt
how to fully use Photoshop, I could follow the rule of thirds and edit my photos accordingly.
I wasn’t completely happy with all my photo choices so I decided to take more especially
focusing on the antagonist’s face.
Doing this I could play around and edit until I thought
it was success. When I had found a photo, I used the
contrast to darken the photo to bring out his eyes
more and then changed it to black and white. I
believe this gave it more of a scarier edge.
This progressed a lot from my previous once as I
was able to put my skills into practise and create
something that was intended for a specific audience.
I kept the font and trees in the same line up to follow
the typical conventions horror posters do. After
asking for feedback, others felt that the black and
white worked well but I needed to bring a slight bit of
colour in. This lead me onto my next draft where I
experimented with the colour palette.

4. TUTOR FEEDBACK!
As you can see, my tutor felt that all the lack of colour worked I
should attempt to at least bring it in a slight bit. We settled on
giving my antagonist blood shot eyes. This lead me onto drafting
my poster again. Other changes were simple enough that
allowed to me structure my poster within the ‘rule of thirds’.

5. I developed on this by following a tutorial on how to make my
antagonist have believable blood shot eyes.
By using the opacity
button, I could change
the visibility of the
image to fit into the
poster how I wanted.
This involved the blending tool again where I got
a picture of some cracked earth on google, I then
blended the corners into the eyes and changed
the opacity, finally I went over the cracks with a
light red colour using the brush tool.
Once I made all of these changes, I went back to the rule of thirds to make sure
everything was structured accordingly. After getting feedback from my peers and
teacher, we felt the eyes didn’t really work well. I felt all of the skills I had used
would help me move onto my final draft and produce a high standard horror poster.