How Rebecca and I created the North Chamber Poster

1. Creation of North
Chamber Film Poster

2. We chose this image of the character of Cassandra to be the main image on the poster
as she is the main character and the ghost in the film. We also wanted to use the red
ribbon in the poster as it connotes danger and helps establish the film’s horror genre.
Firstly, we decreased the hue and saturation of our image until it was black and white.

3. After decreasing the saturation to -100 we painted over the red ribbon with a black
paint brush as this reveals the original colour. We wanted to do this because the red
ribbon is a significant item within the movie and having the rest of the poster in
black and white draws more focus towards the ribbon.

4. When we reached the edges of the ribbon we had to zoom in so that we could get a
better view as to where the ribbon ends. This enabled us to achieve a straight line
which reduced changes that the ribbon would look obviously edited.

5. This is the picture after we had edited the ribbon.

7. We used the gradient tool to create a fade to black at the bottom of
the image as we wanted a space where we could insert our billing
block.

8. We then dragged
our edited image
onto the template
so we could begin
to create our poster.
As we wanted our poster
to be A4 size, we searched
the size of A4 page in
pixels and created a new
transparent template in
Photoshop.

9. We adjusted the size and position of our image on
the template. Then we filled the background in
black with the black paint bucket tool.

10. We inserted a PDF
of our billing block
into the space
beneath the image
of Cassandra.
We then
inserted a PDF
of our title onto
the poster

11. We inserted a text box using the text tool. We then wrote
the names of the two main actresses starring in the film
and put them above the title.

12. We used the snipping tool to cut out our tagline which we had written in our chosen
font ‘rough typewriter’ (from www.dafont.com). We chose this font because type
writers were used in the time period our film is set. We wanted to emphasise that
North Chamber is a period film as well as a horror.

13. We inverted the colours of the text so that the writing was white
and background was black and then we inserted the text onto
our poster.

14. We used Google images to
find a picture of rope
hanging from a tree to
represent the suicide of
Cassandra in the film. We
opened the picture in
Photoshop and used the
crop tool to select the part
of the picture we wanted
on the poster.
We made sure we ticked the
‘labelled for reuse’ option so that
we knew having the picture on our
poster is permitted.

15. We used the gradient tool so that the edge around
the picture fades into black.

16. We dragged the image of the hanging rope onto the poster
from the photo bin, and placed it in the space next to the
picture of Cassandra. This made our poster look more
interesting and appealing as it hinted more at what the film
was about.