The student began by creating an A4-sized canvas in Photoshop. She inserted her main image but had to crop it to fit, leaving a white outline. She added a 30% opaque paintbrush effect to make the image look more rugged. She also included a background image for visual interest and consistency across pages. Next, she added the documentary's title in large text to draw attention and be memorable. She then created star ratings by duplicating an outline star image to indicate reviews. Finally, she filled in details like producers, directors, and air date before presenting the final poster.

1. My Poster Progress
By Eleanor Birtles

2. Firstly, I began by opening a new canvas size in
Photoshop made the canvas size A4.

3. I then inserted my main image, when I first
placed the image in I was to big and didn’t fit
well, so I cropped the image so that there was a
little white outline from the original page on the
outside.

4. I then put an effect over my image, using the paintbrush tool
and I changed the opacity levels to 30% so that the image
appeared to look a bit more rugged and interesting, I also
Inserted my background which was added more interest to the
page aesthetically, as it wasn’t just plain white. I wanted to use
a similar background for my double paged spread as it would
make them fit together a bit more.

5. After that I inserted my main bit of text which was the title
For my documentary I wanted this to be in large text as I
Believe that the name is one of the most important things
And by displaying it aesthetically it will still in the audience’s
mind and therefore meeting the purpose of the advert as
people are going to remember the name.

6. I then began to create the star rating
s for my poster, this was a feature
that I thought was going to make my
poster look more professional because I wanted my
documentary to of been previewed by a small number of
editors so that they could give it a rating, and prove how
successful the documentary was going to be. I created one star
using an outline of a star from the internet I then placed the
image into my advert and filled it in black and duplicated the
layers so that I could have four lots of star ratings

7. I then inserted the
details of the
documentary including
the producers name,
the director, the
editors, and who the
documentary stars.

8. I then inserted
some additional
text that would
give a bit of insight
into the
documentary
including the name
of the director and
the date and
channel that the
documentary will
be on

9. This is my final result