I created a draft film poster which enabled me to visualise what I wanted my final film poster to look like. Despite the essentials being the same, PicsArt, the app I used to create my draft poster, and Photoshop, which I will be using to create my final poster, are very different. There is clear difference in quality, however, I will spend more time creating my final piece and so that is to be expected.
The primary image was an image I originally screenshot from my film trailer of my central protagonist. I included a secondary image that I blended into the poster by both decreasing the secondary images opacity and blending the picture using the 'Multiply' option. Using the 'Multiply' blend meant that the secondary image would adopt the same base colour as the rest of the poster, ultimately promoting colour coordination. I used the credits I created for my film trailer and used the 'Lighten' blend to get rid of the black background, replacing it with the grey I used for my poster. I used the colour grey as my posters background colour because when looking at Social Realist posters, they use muted colours. I wanted to conform to this convention by using a grey background instead of a black or white background because I felt that black didn't fit with my trailers themes, and white was too bright. I used a dark red which has connotations of love and also colour coordinates with my central protagonists red vest.
On my final poster I wish to improve the primary image by adding some dimension to it, the poster appeared very amateur and 2D which it evidently was, however I feel that adding some depth to the image, by perhaps creating a shadow behind it, will benefit the poster a lot. The credits also took up too much space, and so this is also something I'll alter in my final piece.
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