Film Poster Production

I have briefly began to produce a rough copy of my film poster using the programme photoshop. Photoshop is not a programme I am used to so it took a while for me to get the hang of using the different tools and layers! I have put together my background, film title, quotes, tagline and actors and directors names.

I found a picture on the internet of yellow-y blotted paper as I wanted it to look relitively old-fashioned. I then duplicated this layer two times in order for it to fill up the entire A4 page (originally the picture/file was too small and strectching it would make it look grainy). I then selected the colour and used the airbrush tool in order to blur the lines this made. However, I am not completely sure that this will be the background as notepads tend to be much lighter, and the background I have is very dark, looking almost tea-stained. I will however, continue with this process tomorrow. I still need to add shapes at the top of the poster so it gives the effect of being binded like a notepad.

The titles are in the fonts I blogged about recently, and the surnames of my actors are in bold - I have found this to be conventional of film posters I have analysed. I have also added my name, as the director, in bold similarly to the surnames of my actors.

I also added the quote "short and sweet", a quote being said by Little White Lies, the magazine through which I will be basing the layout of my film review on. I don't want my poster to have too many fonts as I feel it would look unprofessional and a little messy - so the quote is in the same font as the other titles. The quoted institution (Little White Lies) is written below the quote in spaced out letters, something which I have seen to be quite conventional with other film posters in order to distinguish the words out as the name of an institution. I have also added the tagline, situated at the bottom of the page, where it will be positioned just above the billing block when completed.