EVALUATION - Poster

As I have send below we have come across some problems with the sizing of our poster and I also mentioned it's progress:


We first cut the image just below the shoulders, we then darkened the right side of the image by using the 'burn' tool, are next task was to change half of the background to black (or a very dark brown). We then added a black rectangle onto the bottom of the poster and added credits onto this, we blurred the edges to make it look professional. We then cut the knife out of Nikki's original image, we cropped it and played around with having blood on it. However we could not find the right sort of blood splatter what would make it look realistic. We also used a toll call gradient colour, and with this we made it look as if light was shining from behind our main character with black fading to white on the right and grey fading to white on the left.
Now we need to add in the actors names, title, tag line and release date - we will have to use the fonts and colours carefully for these.

I made this example of what we have done so far on paint, the shadow on the right side of his face is obviously more extreme and the background colours are only there to give you an idea of what we are trying to achieve. This is a very rough out line.

We will had in the actors names at the top right and left corners one will be in white and one will be in black, we would like to have the surnames larger than the first names as I have found this to be a common feature on film posters. The title will go across the knife with the tag line underneath it, we would like these fonts to have a glow to them like we had on our trailer. The release date will go underneath the credits.

Rach.