In order to create a successful poster I had to get to grips with the programs needed, I began to draft up a series of mocks using photos I had taken to test the stills camera. My photos were these, for the trees and tent images I changed my camera settings to black and white which would make it look more effective and be quicker when it came to editing later.

Once I had these images, I could play around with them and put them into a layout that I liked at the time. By using dafont.com I was able to look through various fonts from different genres that would help fit the stylistic elements needed on my poster to make it work. In my first draft I used quite a basic one but as I progressed I found one called ‘Angel’ after changing it to ‘Black Crow Woods’ I believed it fit in with my theme and looked the part. I then placed it into Photoshop and inverted the colour to fit onto my poster.

When I had the font, I could place around the layout and position the photos onto my poster on Photoshop that I had took for my first draft in order to get a feel for how I

wanted it to be structured. I used a lot of tools to help blend everything together as you can see from the eyes

and the trees in one. Each item on this toolbar helped me produce something that can be used for my final drafts. I

believe I used each bit of technology from still cameras to Photoshop to the best of my ability.

From my first two drafts I developed my poster a lot in terms of the look . Once I had learnt how to fully use Photoshop, I could follow the rule of thirds and edit my photos accordingly. I wasn’t completely happy with all my photo choices so I decided to take more especially focusing on the antagonist’s face.

Doing this I could play around and edit until I thought it was success. When I had found a photo, I used the contrast to darken the photo to bring out his eyes more and then changed it to black and white. I believe this gave it more of a scarier edge.This progressed a lot from my previous once as I was able to put my skills into practise and create something that was intended for a specific audience. I kept the font and trees in the same line up to follow the typical conventions horror posters do. After asking for feedback, others felt that the black and white worked well but I needed to bring a slight bit of colour in. This lead me onto my next draft where I experimented with the colour palette.

TUTOR FEEDBACK!

As you can see, my tutor felt that all the lack of colour worked I should attempt to at least bring it in a slight bit. We settled on giving my antagonist blood shot eyes. This lead me onto drafting my poster again. Other changes were simple enough that allowed to me structure my poster within the ‘rule of thirds’.

I developed on this by following a tutorial on how to make my antagonist have believable blood shot eyes.

This involved the blending tool again where I got a picture of some cracked earth on google, I then blended the corners into the eyes and changed the opacity, finally I went over the cracks with a light red colour using the brush tool.

By using the opacity button, I could change the visibility of the image to fit into the poster how I wanted.

Once I made all of these changes, I went back to the rule of thirds to make sure everything was structured accordingly. After getting feedback from my peers and teacher, we felt the eyes didn’t really work well. I felt all of the skills I had used would help me move onto my final draft and produce a high standard horror poster.