Film Poster

This is our final poster design for our horror film created in Photoshop. We stuck to the mock-up design as much as possible, but when we started to put elements onto the canvas, we realised that some bits didn’t look as good as they did on paper. One of them was the date. We wanted it to be higher up the page, but when it was, it didn’t look like it fitted into its surroundings. We looked at some other horror posters to see where they had their release dates placed and we noticed that the dates were usually placed at the bottom of the page, in between parts of the institutional information. So we tried this on our poster and it looked much better, so we stuck with this position for the date.

Another big change was the star rating at the top of the page. Before they were added, the poster looked okay, but it seemed a bit barren like there was still enough room for something. We looked at the conventions we haven’t used on the poster, and thought of trying to use the ratings. After we placed some star ratings on the poster, it looked much more professional and organised.

 Lastly, when looking at other horror posters, I saw that they had the film company logos at the bottom as well, so I added some to out poster making it look a lot more authentic.

The rest of the poster’s design stayed unchanged. Things like the rosary beads had more colour added to them to help them stand out more and some fake scars and enhanced veins were added to make the arm look injured.