2. The poster was created by Ruby, to start off the making of the poster
Ruby first looked into real media texts. After conducting research
into horror movie posters she took a lot of inspiration from the
poster from the film ‘You’re Next’. She also looked at the common
conventions within horror posters, she found that all of the
production companies involved in the makeing of the film were
written at the bottom of the page, this was in very small writing.
In this paragraph the names of the main people such as directors
and editors were also included.
She then started to create her own, specific to our company and group.
She mentioned all of our group members as well as our own
production company name ‘Asylum Productions’.
After typing it out on word she then opened Adobe Photoshop and create
this text all as one layer.
3. Ruby had then went on to
make this piece of text
look more professional.
She did this by creating
multiple layers in the
side panel and began to
resize certain individual
words. By the end of this
process she was able to
make the text look as if
it were part of a real
poster.
Ruby then went on to
added a layer which
reads ‘The intrusion’.
She did this as it
helped her visualise the
layout of the poster. In
the bottom left hand
corner ruby also added a
15 age rating.
She continued by adding
a web address underneath
the mass text.
4. Ruby then made the background
of the page black, she did
this by pressing ‘ALTS’ and
‘backspace’ on her keyboard.
She also began adding the
production company logos at
the bottom of the page. Ruby
also added the final movie
title which I had made into
the Photoshop file. As you can
see Ruby also started to move
the title nearer the top of
the page, this was done as she
didnt want the text and title
to clash, resulting in the
page being over crowded.
Ruby then selected an image for the
poster. These images were taken
by Aamina. Ruby placed the
image to fit the page, she then
placed the movie title at the
top of the page while making
sure the title does not
interfere with the characters
in the image.
She also added more production
companies at the bottom of the
page.
5. To make the text clearer
Ruby brought up the layer
style window, from this
panel Ruby selected the
colour over lay option.
From there she chose the
colour white. This made the
colour of the text change.
This was done so the text
could stand out against the
darkness in the image.
Ruby then decided to
put a satin overlay
over the masthead.
This was because the
movie title was too
bright and was a bit
overpowering on the
poster. By using the
satin option it dimmed
the layer down so t
could correlate with
the rest of the page.
6. Ruby then used the grid
option of Photoshop so
she could aligne all of
the text accordingly.
This allowed for her to
make the poster more
professional and less
messy.
Ruby then added more
text to the poster.
This text read the
trailer was going to
be released. Ruby
again used the colour
overlay option to
make the text white
so it is readable
against the black
background.
7. Ruby then finished the poster off by adding the movie
slogan underneath the movie title. This was also in
white so it could stand out and easily be readable
against the black background.
