Editing of the poster

Editing process

• We had a variety of ideas for our film poster.
• In order to choose the best one, we decided to produce our ideas as a poster individually to see which one would have the biggest impact.
• Our first idea was very simplistic, which involved the use of a main image of all protagonists in the middle of a plain black background.
• We achieved this idea by using Adobe Photoshop and an online photo editor called 'iPiccy.com'.
• Using Adobe Photoshop, we cut around each individual protagonist and layered each cut image onto one large white background.
• We then changed the britghtness, contrast and colour by using 'iPiccy.com'. We also 'vignette' this photo so that it faded into the black background behind the image.

• Our second idea was to further cut the individual character images into close up shots so that we can only see their facial expressions, which we thought would build tension amogst the audience.
• We then places the cut images onto a landscae black background.
• We took inspiration from an 'X-Men' film poster, shown below.
• Again, we used the online photo editor 'iPiccy.com' in order to place the images onto the black background.

 

• We then came across another idea, in which we used Adobe Photoshop again to produce.  This time, we wanted to see what our poster would be like if it was at the same format as the X-Men poster itself. 
• We used blue light beams to separate each individual character close up while slightly altering the typography to match the theme. 
• However, we came to the conclusion that the theme gave a futuristic feel and did not suit our action-thriller genre, therefore, we did not use this idea as our final piece.

X-Men film poster

• Our final decision was made when we decided to remove the blue light beams, and stuck to simplicity as we have noticed simplicity in many other action-thriller film posters. 
• We continued with the dark background which suits our film genre. 

Final film poster