Planning and creating a poster



I first decided that my poster should include technology in some way - as my main theme is how technology can lead to danger. I decided to cover one of my eyes with a Blackberry Smartphone and have the one eye being the main focus of the image. Because my film is called ''Bound'' I wanted there to be a physical representation of her limitations. For this, I used a black bandana and tied it around the bottom half of my models face to create a silencer of sorts.

 

This is how my image looked originally.

 

When I came to edit the image, I used Pixlr editor - this is similar to Adobe Photoshop - and highly contrasted the image. I then decided to make the entirety of the bottom half of the poster to be black. I used the Clone Stamp Tool to make the black colour the same as the bandaana around the face of my model and coloured in the entirety of the bottom half of the image.

 

I then decided that the image would make more of an impact if the eye was slightly exaggerated. For this, I used the Bulge Tool and worked on the pupil, iris and then the outside of the eye to enlarge it and make it stand out. The effect it gave me was that the eye looks slightly hazy, glassy almost as if she has been crying.

 

After this editing process, I was left with this image -

 

 

I then had to widen the images canvas in order to use it for a landscape poster. I used the free image transform tool and changed wideness and height of my image. After pasting the image into scribus, a publishing program, I selected areas that were not black and changed them so that the entirety of my poster was black.

 

 



 

First poster draft - No text.

 

While playing with Scribus, I encountered difficulties when attempting to add white text to my poster. Any text made white would show up black/grey. So, I created another layer and began to create my text on there. This worked better as the other layer did not effect the opacity of the text.

 

After this, I needed to decide the font for my ''masthead''. I chose a font from www.dafonts.com, called Mom's Typewriter. I chose this font because I felt as if it was an oxy moron of sorts between what is considered technology now and how people used to use typewriters instead of computers.

After spacing and sizing my letters occordingly, my poster looks like this -

 

 

After this, I decided to look at different posters for social realist films in order to gain a better understanding of the aesthetics. When looking at a poster from the social realist drama ''Fish Tank'' it caught my attention that films tend to show reviews from newspapers and/or magazines. Also, the actors, director, producers, distributers etc. all have a space on the poster. Posters tend to have a colour scheme, though I have already chosen mine - Monochromatic (black and white).

 

I used http://www.onlinelogomaker.com/free to construct a logo for my ''made up'' institution - Porchlight Films. The website already has images that can be used for logo's - I chose an arrow from the Arrow Forms list in the Add Symbol catagory. I then added the text Porchlight Films and chose a font from the website which I thought was appropriate.

 

I added this logo to my poster using the ''add image'' box on scribus

I feel that the placement of my logo keeps the eyes focused on the centre of the poster and the part I want to be the main focus - the image. I feel that this monochromatic theme causes an audience to think about an impending doom in this film.

 

 

This is my finished product!

I found my certificate from the internet and simply coloured the white background in black with Microsoft Paint.