The document discusses editing photos for a poster using Photoshop. It describes cutting out an orange light in one photo and increasing contrast and decreasing brightness. Another photo was made darker by decreasing brightness, making the model appear more menacing. The photo was also made black and white to seem more ancient and powerful. Different shades of green were tested to challenge horror poster conventions, and an in-between shade was selected for the poster.

1. Editing Poster
Images

2. In order to edit our
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2
images effectively and
professionally we used
the software
Photoshop. We started
editing our photos by
simply cutting areas out
of the background that
we didn’t want- for
example in the original
photo (image 1) we
noticed that there was
an orange light behind
our model, and so we
needed to cut this out of the image. We did this by using a brush tool on Photoshop,
and we gradually blacked out the area. After doing this we then increased the contrast
of the image so that a greater difference was created between the glowing of our
models face and the dark background, ultimately making the image more striking. We
also decreased the brightness of the image slightly, so that the makeup we’d placed
around our models eyes appeared darker, and also so that it faded certain areas of
the image out- for example our model had a shirt on underneath the dress, and by
decreasing the brightness we were able to fade out the line of the shirt.

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2
We discovered from
our survey results that
one of the most
popular images that
we’d taken for our
poster was image 2.
The original image
doesn’t appear overly
different from image 2,
however we did
decrease the
brightness slightly so
that, as a result, image
2 appears darker and connotes more of a sense of menace. By decreasing the
brightness our models hair is also less light, whereas in the original image her hair
appears quite bright and natural, which doesn’t link in with the idea or an evil
supernatural entity. We also increased the contrast in order to make the image
sharper, as a result the entity appears more eerie and quite striking. We were quite
pleased with the original image due to the effort we’d put into it in terms of getting the
positioning of our model right and the lighting affective- by getting our model to stand
outside of the window with Alice shining a light across the side of our models face, I
was able to take the photo from slightly behind a certain in the window, to signify the
idea that the entity is looking in on you.

4. The reason why we
decided to edit the
original image in
two separate ways
is because we
were pleased with
the photo,
therefore we edited
it once by
sharpening the
image and
adjusting the
contrast, but then
we also changed
the image
completely by making the photo black and white. By making the image black and white
this connotes that the entity is not only dark and therefore mysterious and threatening,
but it also conveys the idea that this supernatural force is ancient and powerful (due to
black and white images usually suggesting that it’s from a time before photos could be
taken and printed in colour) and this links in with the plot of our film. After deciding that
we definitely wanted this to be our poster image, we then experimented with different
tools on Photoshop- one being a tool where you can adjust the colour of the photo…

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2
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From deconstructing other supernatural horror posters, we knew that the conventional colours
to use are red and black- these colours are effective as they connote pain and terror- however
we wanted to challenge conventions by using a completely different colour. By watching our
trailer and considering the prime location in which our film is set we decided that green would
be an appropriate colour to use as it not only connotes the idea of envy and evil, but it also
links in with the forest setting of our trailer. By gradually increasing the green colour through
the tool we were able to pinpoint different shades of green that we thought were effective.
Image 1 is the weakest tone of green, which we thought wasn’t strong enough for a poster
image, as it’s going to be seen from a distance. Image 3 on the other hand is the strongest
use of green, which we thought might be too sickly. As a result we decided to go for a halfway
point between the two- image 2 is still quite a striking green but not so much that its sickly.

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2
3
From deconstructing other supernatural horror posters, we knew that the conventional colours
to use are red and black- these colours are effective as they connote pain and terror- however
we wanted to challenge conventions by using a completely different colour. By watching our
trailer and considering the prime location in which our film is set we decided that green would
be an appropriate colour to use as it not only connotes the idea of envy and evil, but it also
links in with the forest setting of our trailer. By gradually increasing the green colour through
the tool we were able to pinpoint different shades of green that we thought were effective.
Image 1 is the weakest tone of green, which we thought wasn’t strong enough for a poster
image, as it’s going to be seen from a distance. Image 3 on the other hand is the strongest
use of green, which we thought might be too sickly. As a result we decided to go for a halfway
point between the two- image 2 is still quite a striking green but not so much that its sickly.