Creation of Poster

I have now created the poster for my short film 'Hush'. These are the stages of production that i went through before I arrived at the finished result.

Initially I froze a still of Crystal Dyer, one of my actresses, running through the forest for a shot. I chose this image because the movement of the camera in this shot caused her hair to look as though it's blurred into the trees behind her, which are also blurred, whilst her face is still in focus. Her eyes are wide with terror, and I knew from my previous research that this is a traditional and effective code for creating enigma. This is also the image which I used for the background of my website, following another convention of horror films. The original is here in colour. I then used dream weaver to tint the image red. I asked other students and teachers from my school what they thought of it. Their criticisms were constructive and they told me that they thought the image looked a bit like a perfume advert. I took on board their comments and started again with the original image.

I cropped it so that the image was a more conventional shape for a film poster and that the entirely of Crystal's face was included in the image, but it was placed slightly to the left, so that a large shadow fell across the right hand side of the image. This also incorporated the rule of thirds, which

I had decided to use to create my poster. I edited in the title of the film with the font 'cold night for alligators' because, when used in red, the text looks as though blood is dripping off of the letters, which connotes violence and enigma. Next I edited in a quotation from a film magazine and put in the details of the film's production companies logos, actors, the address for the website and 'coming soon' at the case of the page.