This blog post is important as it shows the steps I took to make my film poster.
1- I used a camera on a tripod and took this photography of Caleb tilting Ivy back. This was the base for my poster.
2- I used photoshop and edited another picture on top of my base picture. So that at first it seemed that all three actors were in the shot at the beginning. Once I had placed the picture of my female ghost into the frame, I lowered her opacity so that she looked opaque and ghost-like then placed an effect on the layer called 'Outer Glow' and changed the glow colour from yellow to a pale red as to give her a sinister vibe. Then I placed an effect called 'Inner Shadow' on the photography and created a dark, shadowy tinge around the picture.
3- I looked through the fonts available on photoshop and found the text 'Perpetua Tilting MT' and decided it to make it red as it was quite Gothic and old-fashioned and would fit the theme of my poster.
4- Using photoshop, I rasterize the text so I was able to add effects to it. I added a Drop Shadow effect to the text and upped the 'noise' effect to make the shadow grainy.
5- After adding a Drop Shadow, I added an Inner and Outer Glow effect to make the text have an eerie glow that was similar to the glow surrounding the female ghost.
6- After step two, I felt that the picture still looked too colourful compared to some of the horror themed posters I have seen. So I decided that I would combined the new layers together and copy it. I then turned the copy layer black and white, to see if it gave my poster the desired effect. It looked a little plain and not very interesting so I decided to turn the opacity of the black and white layer down so that some colour still seeped through from the base layer. The outcome creating a dark ebbing edge to the photo and giving the embraced character's some colour as well as the redish glow around the female ghost.
7- Finally I add the Columbia Pictures logo and some production credits to complete my poster.
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