Development of Poster

These are the different stages of making the poster. There was alot of elaboration and changes made within the time of making and experimenting with it, thoughout the time that Shanyse was making it i was always beside her giving my opinions on colours, text font, layout and imagery. Here is the different out takes of it, following through to the final outcome.

First stage.. this was a blank page on photoshop, which was the starting point to our imagination running wild with excitment to start creating...

This was the image that we all decided to use as the background, as well as Stephanie as the foreground. The movie name 'reprisal' added in.. I chose this font and believe it illustrates a thriller genre.

After the image of Nick had been added in... We used a ghost technique to merge him with the background, however he was in front of the main protagonist, therefore making him look like he's more significnt.

So with a little bit of moving the layers around we got Nick behind Stephanie, which was our initial intention. We then added our cast names at the top of the page to make it look conventional, and we decided that the colour red made the text stand out, making the cast names look sufficent and important.

We now added a minor detail such as the website.. which is in white, in a small font and in the middle of the bottom part of the page. We now added the 20 Century Fox mark at the bottom right hand corner.

We now added the slogan 'How far would you go?' We had many difficulties deciding on a slogan, due to the fact that the heroin and the villian is on the poster and not the person being kinapped, therefore we had to pick a slogan that wouldnt confuse the viewer with who each character is, our first attempt at the slogan was 'A girls fight fr true love' due to the fact that Nick is in the background of the poster, this could give people the impression that Nick is the one she is fighting for. So through much debate, we conclusively ended up with 'How fa would you go?' it is simple yet effective, as it also questions the reader. The text is in the colour red to make it look important and draw the viewer in.

This was Nicks interpetation of the poster, although it looks unique as it breaks certain conventions, i didnt find it to be a striking poster. I didnt like the layout much as well as the font of the texts.

We decided to change the positioning of the credits because me and Shanyse didnt think it looked very attractive, however Nick preferred it at the top and said it looked unique. It looks much more professional at the bottom, and conventional, we placed it on the left hand bottom corn just over stephanies coat, so that it culd be read.

We decided to test placing Eugene somewhere on the poster, as a little bit of experimenting, aswell as the fact that he is also a main character so we wanted him to be n the poster, but the image we used did not fit our theme or was not professional, therefore it did not very appealing.

So we removed the photo of Eugene, Alex then recommended that we place the credits in the middle of the poster, which i agreed on, as i had pointed it out before, this was due to the research we had done on film posters, as a majority of them had the credits an the bottom, in the middle, this made it look professinal and conventional.