- The document provides feedback from the teacher on the student's horror poster project, including suggestions to move elements around and change the font for readability. - It then summarizes the student's process of incorporating the feedback, experimenting with different fonts and layouts, and adding elements like a crack on the poster image to further the horror theme. - Challenges like limited software and computer crashes are mentioned, but the student persevered to complete the poster with conventions inspired from real horror media examples. The final poster with credits in a red-shadowed font and key details like the release date and website are shown.

1. Teacher’s
feedback:
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Move image up (so not too much of
her feet
Put a hole in the image (of Flora,
rather than having her ripped)
Move the text in terms of credits.
She like the text (font) and thus not
too worried about the position (and
thus my position).
The text however is better (font)
when it’s straight (more readable)
• Here are the first stages in which I was trying out the
different effects on our horror poster, in terms of providing
the illusion of Flora being ripped in half (to our audience).
•In the same was I had began adding in credits using text
template in ‘Photoshop’. However after using this style of
text I found it was not effective as it did not look like the
style of fonts which are used in real media product which are
apparent on horror posters (in the case of the credits).
These were the feedback I was
given after showing my teacher
the stage I was at, when
creating our horror poster.
•I took these feedback on
board when I later applied
these changes.

2. Credits
• Production company: Lionsgate
• Directors: Priscilla Amponsah and Chloe May
• Music by: Jessel Black
• Written by: Priscilla Amponsah, Chloe May and Afreen Shaid
• Costumes designed by: Priscilla Amponsah and Chloe May
• Edited by: Chole May and Priscilla Amponsah
• Produced by: Priscilla Amponsah
• Director of photography: Priscilla Amponsah
• Production designed by: Priscilla Amponsah and Chloe May
• Website:www.insidethemindofachild.com
• Executive producer: Chloe May
• Filmed by: Chloe May
• Facebook.com/Insanity
• LANGUAGE, SEXUAL REFERENCES, AND STRONG VIOLENCE
• 15 Strong verbal references to sex
• November 20th
• Lionsgate presents ‘Insanity’
• Some material may be inappropriate for
children under 15. view discretion is advised
•These are the elements
which our credits consist
of, I had to look at real
media examples e.g.
‘childish Games’, ‘Hide
and Seek’, in order to
have a sense of to include
in our credits.
•As you can see here,
these are the different
roles in which we each
contributed as a team,
hence why some names
appear more often than
others.

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Here is the first edit I
created using font
available in
‘Photoshop’.
It’s evident that such
style of font is not
effective due to it
not adding nor
reinforcing the
horror genre- the
text was far too
plain.
As you can see here I
had to manually add
in each of the
different elements
and effects in order
to make it more
readable e.g. by
adding a shadow on
the various text I
wanted to stand out.

4. This was whereby I was
manipulating the text in
order for it to be more
readable within the box
in which I created.
Originally we used this structure
and layout, however it was only
conventional on some American
Horror posters as we are British
directors we need to take into
consideration the conventions of
British Horror posters.

5. When using text on
Photoshop it was extremely
limited in terms of fonts
which suited the style font
often featured on Horror
posters, but also it was
difficult to align text.

6. - Here is the crack before
we edited it. From feedback
it was evident that the crack
didn’t work well, which
then led to us using a
PhotoShop brush instead.

7. -
In result of previously having a font which wasn’t
conventionally portrayed on posters, as well as being
difficult to align we decided to use “SF Movie” font
over “Universal Accreditation” as it gives the
audience a sense of familiarity and didn’t appear
squashed like “Universal Accreditation”.

8. - Here is the crack that
I created using a
Photoshop free trial
at home, as the
school’s software
didn’t allow brush
downloads.
- Using Photoshop at
home to create this
crack meant that we
were able to portray
the crack more
realistically, as
previously Priscilla
created a crack using
lines but from
feedback it was
evident it wasn’t
believable enough.

9. - Here is how the crack looked after I
finished using the crack brush. I
had to create a new layer for the
crack as well add “bevel and
emboss”, to give the illusion that
Flora has actually cracked to
further enforce her insanity which
is a key theme we want to convey
to our audience.
- We agreed as a group that we
want our audience to see straight
away from seeing our poster a link
between our title “Insanity” and
the crack. So that they understand
Flora is not like other girls and they
want to find out what made her
insane. (This is the sense of
enigma in terms of revealing
something to keep them guessing
we portray throughout our trailer
and magazine)

10. - Once imported into Photoshop
Priscilla then used the magic
wand tool to select the white
areas around the crack and
delete it so that there is just a
crack alone.
- Priscilla then used the
adjustment tool in order to
change the brightness and
contrast of the whole image, as it
looked lighter after we added the
crack. We wanted it to be darker
so that the element of evil taking
over Flora is enforced. (Which
links to the idea we wanted to
portray A fight between good
and bad in terms of Flora’s
personality)

11. - While editing after
school the computer
would often crash due
to a lot of users on the
server. This was
problematic for our
progress when editing
the poster, as whilst
saving it would crash so
all the work Priscilla
added would be redone.
- Despite this fall back we
constantly kept on trying
until it saved successfully.

12. - This is how the poster
looked after we added
the crack. As you can see
this also includes credits
which we planned to
include in a box, due to
certain Horror posters
following this
convention. However it
didn’t look professional
and conflicted with the
main element of our
poster the crack so we
decided not to use this
layout.
- As previously explained
we decided to follow the
conventional film poster
text used on Horror
posters, as well as use no
box as we realised
contemporary posters don’t
use the box for credits.

13. - This picture highlights where
Priscilla began to add “SF
Movie font” from “Dafont”.
After creating the elements
which is needed for credits
(whilst observing other film
posters like Orphan), Priscilla
began to manually rearrange
the text so that it was
aligned. It was difficult to
read when grouped together
so we decided to add “drop
shadow”, “inner shadow and
stroke from clicking
“blending options” which
enabled her to change the
colour of the shadow from
black to red.
- The picture below is Priscilla
rearranging the credits.

14. - These are some of the different elements we as a group decided to include
within the poster, e.g. the website of “www.insidethemindofachild.com”.,
which follows the convention of websites being portrayed on Horror posters
in terms of the credits.
- We then decided to make “Insanity” red to reinforce the element of blood
and symbol of red which is an important aspect of our narrative. Priscilla
done this using the “painbucket tool” changing each letter to red instead of
previously black.
- The film will be released on Children’s day which is the 20th November.
- Lastly Priscilla rearranged the various texts within the credits, asking me and
our fellow peers for feedback to see if it was readable.

15. • This is the final
version of our poster,
which includes the
final format of the
credits. We agreed
that the title Insanity
at the bottom should
be larger, as a way of
reinforcing our films
name so that our
audience become
aware of our brand.