Creating Film Poster

Adding GradientIn order to fill the white space above the picture, I decided to add a gradient colour. To do so, I created a new layer and named this ‘top’. I then selected the white area using the ‘rectangular marquee tool’. Then, taking the gradient tool and holding the ‘shift key’, I dragged my mouse from the top to the bottom of the area selected. The gradient of colour then appeared.

I felt the colour appeared too bold and harsh, so I decreased the opacity.

Adding Gradient cont.Using the same method explained on the previous slide, I created a gradient at the bottom of the image. This time I did not decrease the opacity. I ensured the colour was set to black - white, as before.

Adding Film Title

I then decided to insert the film title ‘Kaleidoscope’. To do so, I clicked on the ‘horizontal type tool’, changed the font to Dolce Vita, the colour to white and size to 100pt. I positioned my title underneath the focal image.

Adding Credits (Steel Tongs)

I then added credits to the bottom of my image; this is conventionally seen on film posters. To gain the correct font, I downloaded ‘steel tongs’ from a free font sharing website. I then went to the ‘horizontal type tool’ and selected the bottom of my poster. I had to follow an alphabet provided on the website, for instance a lower case ‘a’ wrote ‘written by’. In order to write names I had to turn on caps lock. I wrote in black and set the size to 15pt.

Adding the CastI then added the names ‘Hana Thain’ and ‘Sam Mallock’ at the top of the poster. I used the font ‘Penelope Anne’ which I had previously downloaded from ‘dafont.com’ to include within our trailer inter-titles. I decreased the opacity of both to 24% to provide a soft, appealing visual.

I added this text using the same method as seen before, utilising the ‘horizontal type tool’.

Adding Quote

I then added a quote at the top of the poster, underneath the cast names. The font I decided to use was, once again, Penelope Anne; this time in black. I set the size to 36pt. I duplicated the layer twice so the text appeared more bold. Again, I used the ‘horizontal type tool’.

Adding Quote cont.

In order to show who supposedly said the quote, I used the ‘horizontal type tool’ once again to write an infamous film critic underneath. I used a ‘basic title font’ which I downloaded from ‘dafont.com’. I duplicated the layer three times so that the font appeared more prominent. I made the text smaller than the actual quote.