Ansillary text: movie poster

Below you can see the movie poster which I have created.
Before I started making the poster I first carried out some research into the conventions of movie posters. The first bit of research which I identified was the uses of the title at in center towards the bottom of the poster. I did this by looking at a few posters online. Here are some examples which I looked at.

Following this I also looked up some articles online regarding the creation of a movie poster, The link is of the website which identifies the different conventions of movie posters. The following key conventions is what I read to be the case of movie posters:
- It must have the film title a little bit below center of the poster.
- There must be main actors names at the top of the poster.
- The film company name and copy right issue must be put at the bottom of the poster.
- the background must consist of picture of something regarding the film, which will attract the people walking by the poster to want to watch the film.
http://www.slideshare.net/CharlieSoutham/conventions-of-a-film-poster-12069008

Therefore following this I opened up Photoshop to begin creating the movie poster. Initially, I took a new picture of a tree and began editing it for the short film poster. This picture after a while began to not work with the story, which resulted in me changing my idea ( I have attached the picture of the tree below).

I changed my idea to a picture I had already taken in the filming process which I wasn't sure of using. This consisted of a close up of rowans face. This I put into Photoshop and began the editing process for a second time. This time it began to look better and more like what the poster should look like. I used a video tutorial to teach me how to use Photoshop for several different ideas I had. The first video (the one below) showed me how to work on the texts and the overall color correction. From this I lowered the RGB curves and increased the the blues and grey/greens. This brings out the cold, dark feel of the film.

Following this I wanted to add a camera lens flair to the picture. This I established through the video below. After trying many different tutorials, the one below showed me the best method of using the camera lens flair.

After adding this flair to the picture I went back to the previous video, which showed me how to use the text tools. After learning this I scrolled through the different fonts and found one that I thought worked best for the film. After this I chose the color of a light grey, which I thought worked well with the picture, as it enabled me to blend the text to the picture. Following this I added one more element which was the film company's copy right etc. This I found from a free online program which I downloaded called F-title. This program enabled me to create the special font-ed title. following this I added it to the poster. Following this I finished the poster. Below Is my finished product.