Using Photoshop

For our poster and some elements of our website we had to use Photoshop. For A2 it is a new, unfamiliar software so we began by experimenting with it.

In this photo we wanted to edit the colouring to make her hair more red and her skin more pale- to represent the power her addiction has over her. The motif of red colouring is used throughout our teaser trailer to represent her addiction and the danger it enforces on to her.

We edited different layers of our poster in order to change the colour of the photo to black and white. By using the lasso tool, we were able to select the areas in which we wanted to bring out the colour- the blood from her nose and her hair. Both are red and fit in with the motif of bright red lighting that is exhibited in our teaser trailer. However we decided that we didn't want to use this style for our poster, as it gives the photograph an animated effect, and we believed it looked rather unprofessional. The black and white element doesn't really fit with the tone of our trailer and from analysing pre-existing movie posters we understood that the more the poster reflects the trailer, the more effective it is.

To create our Poster, we layered photos of the protagonist on to a black background. By editing the opacity of the photo layers, we were able to create a photograph that depicts two of her- one that is looking sideways, creating suspicion while the other looks straight ahead. We matched the photos up so that they shared an eye, representing how intertwined the protagonist and her addiction are. Throughout the Teaser Trailer she is presented as two different people, with and without the drug and these are depicted on the poster. Regarding typography, Photoshop only allowed fonts to be up to a certain size, so we had to select a font in Word, and apply this to the poster afterwards. Luckily Photoshop allowed us to remove the backgrounds of the typography which was necessary when adding the typography. We also used this tool for the title on our website.