Creating my Film Poster - The Process

Step 1.

To create my final film poster for my documentary, I used Pixlr and Piclay. So, to start with I took the photos of my talent using a basic iPhone camera and initially edited the photos separately. I started editing the photo of Raveena first, and decided to use the left hand side of her face. The standard editing procedure consisted of removing any red marks or blemishes on the face using the 'online photo editor' tool. Once this was finished I then carried out the exact same process for Georgia, but this time I used the right hand side of her face. I decided to use only half of each talents face as I had already planned out how I was going to create my film poster - I knew that I was going to combine their faces on one page to create a synchronised effect.

Step 2.

After combining the two images, I decided that the variation in skin colour made it slightly difficult to create a simultaneous effect which I wanted for my poster to express the equality or 'sameness' of the unique individuals. Therefore to over come this problem I removed all colour from the image by using the 'Afterlight' photo editing software. I started off by removing all colour (by taking all saturation out of the image) and then by adding a black and white filter over the top of the image called 'Raven'. Matching the images up in terms of facial features was the most difficult part of the process and took some time, but thankfully I got there in the end!

Step 3. 

The next stage involves the creation of the poster itself. 

I used a basic black image for my template, and I then added the text and photos onto this template using the Pixlr photo editing software. I enjoyed experimenting with various fonts and text sizes and I also liked the freedom I had in terms of deciding the exact location of each word on my poster to be.  

Step 4. 

 After adding the text & combined images I used the fonts 'American Typewriter' and the 'Firecat' font from the novelty selection on Pixlr. I used these fonts to create the credits at the bottom of the film poster


- Bold title of my film
- The date of release
- The credits at the bottom
- A main image
- Plain background so focus can be on photo and texts
- Various fonts and font sizes

Step 5.

Final touches:

- Since my TA and talent in the film are young females, I decided to include some colour. With my TA in mind I thought it would be great to use a feminine colour that relates to my predicted consumers. I also wanted to make it as clear as possible to audiences which character was who - therefore I included the names of both characters at the bottom in a bold youthful font called ''Blokletters' which creates an effect of youthful - pen written words. I placed each character name on the relevant side of the page (according to which character was on this side). Another reason that I decided to include the names of my characters on the poster was so that they could be established easily and quickly - as my documentary is a short film.