Film Poster Drafts

Draft 1:

Using lighting as the key, making some of it appear lighter to the right hand side, and darkness on the left to show that he is being possessed. I used the dark stroke texture, on Photoshop and added minimal text, I am very happy with the colors that I have used, however, I am not sure about the first image.

Draft 2:

After looking into my first image again, I then looked back onto my analysis and decided as I have chosen to use techniques from Paranormal Activity whilst incorporating Blair Witch Project, I would try to use a poster like theirs.

Paranormal Activity uses the technique of text and quotes over the main image, I am choosing to also use this technique meaning that my images above need to be altered slightly. The texts used in this image bring more fear into the audience than the image itself as it helps to understand what is going on.



The process began with adding a black background in front of the altered image, then adding the name of the film below, although the problem I discovered was my image was too wide, and therefore needs to be shorted otherwise I will not be allowed to add as many quotes as was in the paranormal activity one.

Next I decided to make the image smaller so that there is more room for quotes, I did this by using the transform + scale buttons to make my image stretch.
Another technique I used was using the works within, and keeping the 'i's in lower case, so I could use the satanic symbol for dots, however, through audience feedback I have found that it is not clear that I was trying to do that and through the next edit I will have to make it more clear.

Another technique is the use of the quote from my imagined film, making it even more obvious that there will be links to the devil in my film, this is also made clear within the trailer, however, the poster is what entices people to watch the trailer.