Activity 2 to 7: Creating a Film poster

To start off, I have sketched a plan of what my poster will roughly look like and scaned it:

The picture used is a high quality close-up, and was taken with a nikon n90s, originally set on black & white. It was taken on a local theatre stage, using a dim spotlight. Here it is, edited and darkened in Photoshop Elements 8:

Next, I have considered a font for the title that I thought was suitable for a thriller genre. Therefore, inspired from the hit thriller Fight Club, I have downloaded the font below.

Then, using a normal brush I have drawn a few spots at the end of it to to make it look like blood.

I have used a crimson red colour for both the title and the credit blocks, for which I have again downloaded a font, called Univers LT 39 Ultra Thin and made up some fictional names for producers, actors etc:

As for the final touches i put at the bottom the logos of some famous American production companies such as CBS and Escape as well as the 15+ rating logo:

Here it is as a work in progress:

And finally, this is how the poster looks like after a few finishing touches in Photoshop: