Poster Draft

After using images from the internet as a basic idea of what we would like our poster to look like we then used one of our photos that we took. We decided on one that was close up and indoors. This means that it is different to our magazine cover and looks more professional and would have been taken at a different time. Her make up in this photo is down her face so it looks like she has been crying and she doesn't have much expression on her face which tells the audience that she is upset and maybe lost in what to do. When taking the photo we wanted to have a shadow on one side of her face so we used a light reflector on one side. This is because on one side we are having a chess piece cast a shadow over her as if it taking over her which ties in with the emotion we want in our film as she cant seem to get away from the re occurring chess piece and person. As we still have taken the photo of a chess piece we have had to practice with an image from the internet still and have been using PowerPoint. Here is the first development we did:

You can see that we have put the title across the top and the actresses name. We decided to only put her name in the poster because she is the main character and we felt that if we put the other characters in we would be revealing who her stalker is to the audience before they have watched it. We have also made a billing block that is across the bottom of the poster with the date of when the film is out in slightly bigger font. We changed the photo to black and white to represent the sad mood in the photo but felt that it was slightly too dark. 

Here you can see that we have made it brighter so her features are more visible such as her eyes which I think enables the audience to engage with her more and her emotion. I think being brighter also increases the contrast in the photo and makes her face stand out against the black background. 

Experimenting with the colours further we changed the photo so it was slightly sepia but again we felt that it went too dark and wouldn't be bold enough to stand out to our audience. We tried this colour because we thought it added to the depressed and sad emotion on her face.

Here we have lowered the saturation of the photo but not used the sepia effect. I think this gives enough brightness and contrast in the photo without it being too dark and also fits with the emotions trying to be portrayed through the photo. With the photo having more colour we decided to change the title to grey as we think it stands out better here and appeals to the eye better than red. We still kept red in the poster in her name as our main colours throughout the project have been red, grey and white. Throughout the developments we like this outcome however once we have the photo of the chess piece it may change again.