The document outlines the stages of creating a movie poster in Photoshop and InDesign. It describes testing effects like shadows and color schemes, editing the background image, using selection tools to apply color only to characters, and the final stage of adding text and layout in InDesign. The poster was created for a film with themes of good versus evil, and the editing aimed to make the poster eye-catching for the target audience through contrasting light and dark elements.

1. Poster Production diary

2. This shows evidence of myself editing on Photoshop in order to make my
poster stand out and be more interesting for my target audience. The
effect that I am here trying to achieve here is giving a shadow effect for
half of the photo this would be done by using the tool on the side of the
page which is called opacity which allows the user to change the level of
shade that is added to an image, by doing this I managed to create a
contrast of dark and light effect that would fit the genre of the film of a
dramatic sense of good vs evil.
1. Stage

3. This shows an example of myself testing out some effects that may or may not
be included into the final poster, these effects consisted of adding layers onto
different parts in order to add colour to the characters so that different parts
stand out from each other when they come together making the image look eye
catching.
2 stage

4. This shows an example of testing the colour scheme that could
potentially be used in my poster this part of photo manipulation was
particularly difficult as I struggled to work out how to make sure that
the colours used only applied to the characters and not the rest of the
page, this also consisted of coming to a final decision on what shade of
red that would be used for the characters.
3 stage

5. This shows an example of having to edit in the background that will be
used for the poster this consisted of using a free website that allowed me
to use this background in order to stay in line with the theme which is
good vs evil. This picture also shows finally being able to add the colour
scheme of red to the characters this was done by using a tool on the side
which is called magnetic lasso tool which allowed me to go round the
outline of the characters and be able to colour them in individually
without the programm adding colour to everything else as well.
4 stage

6. This shows the final stage of creating the poster, this stage was
done on InDesign it consisted of adding the titles the
information and some colour variation addition.
This also consisted of working to make sure that the layout of
the page is correct to fit my poster which is landscape.
5 stage