The document describes the process of creating a poster for a thriller film. It discusses editing the original photo in Photoshop to make it scarier, including adding faded white writing behind the image that says "The Watcher." It details the challenges of choosing a font color that stands out against the black and white theme. Feedback suggested removing either the writing or the title, and the creator decided to make multiple posters, one with just the title and one with just the writing, to follow film marketing conventions.

1. Production
of Poster

2. • The image on the left is
the original photo and the
image on the right is the
same photo but editing
on Photoshop
• I used
contrast/brightness/hue/
saturation and lightness
to emphasise the photo
and to make it more scary
• Doing a black and white
poster challenges
convention however it
still promote what genre
my film is (thriller)

3. • Looking at poster in my research and just from looking at film
posters when I’m out and about, I noticed that some posters
have writing at the back, this makes the poster creepy.
• I used this as my inspiration to do the same, I used the word
“The Watcher” to cover my poster. to get the faded white
effect, I used the gradient tool on Photoshop. I wanted the
writing to be behind the shadow but I wanted the woman to
be in front.
• To do this, I had to use Photoshop and layer up. Firstly, I had 2
copies of the image. Firstly, I placed the writing everywhere
including the woman on the first layer then got another layer
and cut out the woman and placed it on top of the first layer.
This was a long process but I thought the poster came out how
I wanted it to.
• Due to the black and white theme, it was hard
for me to choose a colour of my writing.
• I thought grey will be a good colour to use
because it will tie nicely with my black ad
white theme however that was the problem.
The grey for my title did not stand out at all.

4. • I decided to stop figuring out what colour
and font I would use for my title and start
focusing on my institutional reference.
• This was an easy process and I decided to
have the release date between the last line
of my reference and have a website at the
bottom right. Both of these, followed
conventions and having it in red contrasted
with the black and white and made it stand
out.
• After doing the release date and website, it gave
me an idea to also do the title in red to connote
danger and danger. It would also tie nicely with
the other things that are red too.
• At the top right, this font I thought didn’t go well
with my poster.
• At the bottom left, I decided to place it at the top
and see what it wold look like, the writing at the
back overpowers the title. I had a lot of difficulty
with my title.

5. • After getting audience feedback, they suggested to either have no
title because the writing at the back is easy to pick up OR get rid of
the the writing and just have ‘The Watcher’ in bold red at the top.
• I decided to do both because conventionally many films have
several posters to promote their film. For example Batman: The
Dark Knight