First Draft of my posters

First Poster

This is the first draft of my first film poster. It contains the usual codes and conventions for a standard film poster such as the billing box, lead actors, film title, strap line, dateline, website and the sponsors' logos. I found that a Sans Serif font would work better for a Horror based film - this also links with what I have found out during my research and planning.

Original image

There could be more improvements if necessary. For example, if the strap line and lead actors' fonts are unreadable, I may have to change them, or if the text is too big for the poster.

This is the original photograph taken on location. In order to achieve the effect given in the poster, I had to change the contrast and brightness as well as the hue and saturation to give the 'drained' effect. I also softened the edges of the image so it would fade into the background by using the gradient tool.

Second Poster

This is the second poster I made. I thought that it might be more suitable as a billboard poster found on the platforms in the London Underground. This is a good poster, however I could make more improvements on the image, for example, using Gaussian blur so make the image more smoother.
The image of the bottle spinning was originally a series of photos of the bottle in different positions when it is spinning. I lowered the opacity for the first few images, gradually increasing it as it gets nearer to the current position. I also added a motion blur on to each image of the bottle to make it look like it is spinning.