Product: Film Poster

This is my film poster for Forget Me Not. In this blog post I am going to explain my step by step process of making the film poster and why I made certain designs on the style, colour and design of my poster.

I decided I wanted a bold font so that it stood out, I tried out many fonts from "fontspace" and decided that this one suited the poster the best. I used a tool on photoshop to match the colour to a forget me not petal (flower). I also decided to use the same font and colours for the tagline and release title.

I wanted the photograph on the poster to look like the head was falling apart, to infer the characters mental illness (Dementia). In order to achieve this I used YouTube to find a Photoshop tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnpDy8zlmv8) I used this to create the desired effect.

This effect is supposed to show her memories fading as then it becomes an effective poster as it makes links to the plot of the film and entices the audience.

I took the photo of Chrissy my main protagonist in the dark room and used 2 soft lights. I then loaded my photos to photoshop and decided to choose the one featured, mainly because i liked her expression it made the poster more exiting and her hand rubbing her head was effective. I then used Photoshop to edit out the initial white back ground and remaster it with a hall way from a hospital. I used the histograms on Photoshop to edit both of these photos until they looked as I wished.

Here is the original photo I used in the back ground of my poster, however I changed the levels of it using the histogram tool on Photoshop and made it black and white so it didn't detract from the primary image. I combined it with the photo I took below of Chrissy.