The document summarizes the process of creating a movie poster for a film titled "Séance". It describes how the student found an image of an eye online and took a photo of a friend's eye to use. In Photoshop, the eyes were edited to look darker and more ominous. Skin was added underneath to make it look more realistic. Candles were included as a reference to scenes in the movie. Text was added for the title, quote, and cast names using drop shadows to make it look scarier. A rating and release date were also included to finish the poster.

1. Poster creation final.
Tiffany Malcolm

2. • I first decided to look at 2 different types of eyes.
The reason I decided to look at different eyes was
to see how much detail is present. At first I was
going to just an image I found off the internet; I
did come to the conclusion that taking an
observational picture would be more beneficial
as people would be able to see that I had tried to
imitate the different eyes I looked at. As you can
see from that photo I used a Cannon’ camera and
took a close up image of my friends eye which I
would then use on my poster.

3. First image I found off Tumblr.

4. Second image I found off Tumblr.

5. This is the image of my friends eye
which I then decided to use on my
poster.

6. Once I found out what image I was
going to use I exported the image into
Photoshop CS6 for Apple Mac and
decided to rub out parts of the
surround eyes to give it a more
‘jagged’ effect and that way the focus
would just be on the pupil itself.
The second thing I did was curve the image which made
it darker and I added more blackness around the eyes to
add more suspense and darkness.

7. Again I curved the image even more making it darker
around iris which makes it more eyrie which allows it to
look more like a horror poster.

8. Changing the whole background from a colour image to black and
white was risky. The way I did this was by changing the
Hue/Saturation and then clicking on the black and white setting.
After I had changed it to black and white however I realised that it
needed some element of colour as it didn’t look scary enough and
the black and white colours was boring.

9. Adding colour was hard and I realised that I struggled with adding a colour to the
image. This is because when I first added the red it was way to harsh and over
powered the image. The way I overcome this was by changing the opacity of the
colour and then noticing that it looked more effective then leaving it bulky.

10. Once I had finished changing the opacity I realised
that there was still too much around the eye so I
used the rubber tool and decided to rub bits off from
around the edges.

11. After removing the under eye skin I noticed that it looked a bit
random having an eye in the middle of the page so I went onto
Google images and chose a picture of skin and then placed it under
the eye and faded it down so that it was very faint, again I used the
rubber tool and made it less image like and recreated the skin
underneath the eye.

12. Noticing that the ‘skin’ I added underneath my image looked good I decided to add in
another two pieces of skin so that it would fill out the background and it would stop
it from looking basic, tiring and boring. The skin makes it look more realistic by the
way I faded the sides and used different opacity's.

13. Once I had added in the extra skin I decided to start linking it towards my actual
movie that I created ‘Séance’. The way I did this was by adding in 4 candles into the
pupil of the eye. This links to my movie as when they are performing the séance we
the candles present.

14. Even with the red in the eye and the black and white effects I still didn’t feel that it
look that ‘scary’ so again I added a black patch in the eye but lowered the opacity so
that way you can still see the red from underneath and it gave it more of an edge.

15. Still with no sense of direction and unable to tell what this was I added the first piece of
text onto the poster. The first text piece I added was the words ‘Seance’. This was using a
font which was clear and easy to read but unfortunately not scary.

16. The way I made it scarier was by adding a drop shadow. The
way I added the drop shadow was by double clicking on the
text and then going to effects. Right at the bottom of that
you see the words ‘drop shadow’ by clicking on this it gives a
shadowed effect which adds emphasis to the word allowing
them to stand out more.

17. After adding the main title of the movie onto the poster I realised that most posters
have a quote which is not necessarily said in the movie but goes well with the theme. So
that’s what I did and added the words ‘what we call life is a journey to death’. Again with
it just looking plain I added the drop shadow to the words again to make it stand out
and so that it fits in with the theme of the poster allowing it to all look the same.

18. Once I had finished adding the quote underneath the title I realised that it didn’t
have any cast present on the poster which meant that if people was curious they
would not know who was staring in the film what could become a hit. That is why
at the top of the poster I added in the actresses names which fitted in well.
Following the theme of my poster I added the drop shadow to it also so that way it
likes alike.

19. Adding the certificate logo was tricky. This was because I was trying to figure out where I would
place my movie. I rated my movie a 15 because even though it did not contain words such as c*** it
did contain words such as f*** and pi*s. I felt that because I wouldn’t let my 13 year old sister watch
the movie I had to rate it higher so that she was unable to watch my movie. Adding the rating into
the corner was a convention of most posters as that way it promotes the age and lets people know if
they can or cannot watch the movie.

20. Once I had finished my poster I noticed that there was no release date or expected time as to
when people would be able to view it from. So underneath the quote I added in the words
‘coming soon March 2014’. This let potential viewers know that they would be able to watch it
anytime after March 2014.

21. Start and finished poster.