Creating the poster

After getting a much better insight on what is on a poster, we wanted to use these tchniques to produce our poster. Star appeal which is used when a famous actor/actress is put on the poster to attract their audience which is a poweful technique as you instanlt get attracted to the poster. As we are not using any famous actors/actresses, we will be using strong and powerfull imagery which would be in the film. This needs to be eye catching and bold so that the audience will look at it and be persuaded to watch the film.

To create the poster, we found some imagery of a dark forest which we then would manipulate on Photoshop. Before we started however, we chose other unrelated images to play around with to get to know the different tools on it. The effects we liked best will be used on our poster for the film.

Whilst creating the poster, we had get some inspiration of other posters and see which kinds of quotes they use and are attracting. We wanted the audience to feel that it the next biggest release coming out but we still wanted to leave mystery on what the story is about and so didn't use any images that would predict the plot. We also wanted the wording to sound as if the film is being bragged about but we wanted to use comedy for those more into laughs and so added a couple of funny words and quotes. 


We wanted to use dark colors that would also reflect blood and killing and so decided to use red and black as they made the perfect match for this emotion. These colors created a chilling effect and stood out which worked well for us. However there was some problem in getting the right shade which would match everything such as the actual image and the film title. 


To make it look like a real poster, we also had to add in credits at the bottom. This made the poster look realistic and was the finishing touch for the poster. The release date was also significant to let our audience when the film is coming out.