Original picture for poster

Once the final picture was chosen for our poster, we used Adobe Fireworks CS6 to start editing and creating a polished horror film poster. We cropped the original picture as we did not need any of the background which later would be cancelled out through more editing.

We wanted to cancel out the background and have our main actress stand out in the picture. In order to do this we change the scale of brightness and contrast allowing the actress’s clothing to stand out against the darkened background. We then saturated the picture to allow the darker colours (navy & black) to seem more rich and vibrant.

We then added the name of our film ‘Unnerved’ as this is a poster promoting our film.We wanted it to stand out against the black, there was no better than white which also connects well with clothing detail in the picture as well as being easily readable and recognizable to our target audience

Using a smudge tool we slowly smudged upwards using the black coloured background around our actress creating a shadow. This allowed to create a darkness that we wanted to capture her dragged backwards as if she was getting into a ‘darkness’

Finally we inserted a tagline ‘there is two sides to every person’. We wanted to make this tagline eye catching and blend well with the horror genre. Using a fonts website we came down to fonts tat we liked and thought worked well. We decided on the smaller as it we thought it conveyed a sense of fear and had a unique eeriness to it. We wanted to keep the font in black however in order to do this we created a white box behind the text to make sure it was readable against our black background.

The finished product.

The Poster