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The Making of Our PosterMisconception

Step 1: Creating the first half of the image

1) Firstly, we opened the image of the character looking away from the mirror with a happy facial expression. We then cropped the reflection half out and saved it.

Step 2: Creating the second half of the image

2) Secondly, we opened Adobe Bridge and selected “pictures”. We then held down the shift key and selected the full photo of the character looking into the mirror with an evil- looking facial expression and the recently cropped image of the happier-looking character.

Step 2- Inserting the second half of the image

We then selected tools>Photoshop>load files to open both images in Photoshop. This enabled both the cropped happier-looking image and the whole image of the evil-looking character to open in a single Photoshop document.

Then, we put the cropped image layer on top of the whole image layer. Then, we expanded the images and lined them up. This made the image whole and created the illusion that the reflection of the mirror didn't’t match reality

Step 3- Polishing off the image

We then used the spot healing brush tool to airbrush the image and make the character’s face look flawless. This reflects on the appearance pressures involved in dance

Next, we zoomed into the line where both images met and used the eraser, smudge and blur tools to make the images align correctly

Step 4: EditingWe then selected the adjustments tab and lowered the red tints and heightened the levels of blue. This was to make the image colder and hint more to the dark thriller genre of the film

Step 5: Adding the titleWe were trying to experiment with different places we could position the title. Therefore we started to research more into other landscape posters within our chosen genre to gain some ideas. We were inspired by the use of a border in this poster from the short thriller film “Tell-Tale”

However, as the border should take up roughly a third of the page, when we put the border in place we felt as if it took up too much room in our particular image and didn't’t compliment the photo very well

Step 5: Adding the title

We then found many posters from our chosen genre and subgenre with a similar image layout to ours, landscape with two people/faces at either end of the frame, that positioned the title in between both characters. However, although we considered this option, we thought our title, “Misconception” was too long to fit in between both people.


We also noticed many films from our genre and subgenre, with a landscape frame and similar main image layout to ours, which positioned their main title at the bottom of the page. We thought this may be effective on our poster as it wouldn’t overshadow and take away from the creepy effect of our main image


1) Therefore, we then saved our main image, in Photoshop, and opened it in illustrator where we had made out main title

2) We then copy and pasted our main title, positioning it at the bottom of the page

Step 6- Polishing off the title

The silhouette of the ballerina we used for the letter “I” still had white marks around it from were we had erased it too lightly


For the white corner section near the ballerina’s head we simply used the spot eraser tool to cover it up


Before- There were white smears surrounding the silhouette which looked untidy and messy

After- We used the quick selection tool to select the area under the ballerina’s arm. We then used the colour sample tool and clicked on an area of skin. Then we used the paint bucket tool to fill in the selected area in the realistic colour taken from the colour sample. We then used tool such as the blur and smudge tool to blend in the colour of the selected area so that it looked more credible

Step 7- Adding on other conventional features

Actors names

We then followed our poster layout plan, along with both Photoshop and illustrator, when adding the following features:

Tagline

Billboard and website name

Release Date

Review

Distribution and Production company name