Film Poster: Construction & Annotations

Film Poster Construction (Photoshop)

Stage 1

Firstly, I opened Photoshop and pressed on 'File' then 'New' in the top left of the screen. Then after pressing 'New', a 'New' tab opened up and allowed me to customise the setting of my film poster's canvas. I decided to press on the 'International Paper' so that my film poster would have the same layout as other film posters my target audience are interested in. The size was A3 and the resolution was 300 so that converting my film poster to A4 would be easy if need be. However, I plan to print it out in A3 so that is of a realistic quality that will entice my target audience. 

Stage 2

Next, I had to download my film posters font. So, I downloaded the second font down from the top of the screen because it was the font I planned to use in my font research previously. To do this, I pressed on the 'Download' button on the far left.

After that, 'Font Book' opened and allowed me to install my font. This now allowed me to use my font on Photoshop for my film poster.

Stage 3

 

In this stage of the production stages I wanted to create a layer that would allow me to edit my text easily and effectively. To do this I had to click on the little icon you can see highlighted in the bottom right of the image. After clicking that it created a new layer.

Stage 4

 

Editing text was vital because I needed it to create the same effect my rationale created. For instance, to change my colour to red I had to click on the 'Fx' icon you can see highlighted at the bottom right of the image. After clicking on this it gave me a range of effect options for my text. I used "Colour Overlay" to change the text colour to red, then I used "Stroke" to emphasis the letters outline.

Stage 5

To insert an image into my work, I had to click on "File" whilst in Photoshop, then "Open" so that I could open the image I saved from Google images. This opened up the image and allowed me to drag the picture onto my film poster draft.

Stage 6

I suddenly realised that I was using the wrong font for my film title and tagline on my trailer because I began to feel it looked quite childish in Photoshop. Therefore, I changed the font types around on the title and tagline and now I feel the film poster's font relates more to my font research and audience's interests.

Stage 7

On the right you cans see I have opened the image I have chosen to use as a separate document. After that I selected it and dragged onto the 'Film Poster: First Draft' document.

Here you can the see the image has successfully moved across onto my Film Poster document ready to edit.

Stage 8

After a few adjustments of the text I had to increase the size of the image by pressing 'Ctrl + T'. This lead to the completion of my Film Posters first draft.