Making a poster

Making a poster

The process of making a poster

I have made a video about the steps I took in order to make a poster and also to make it look realistic and professional. 

Making a poster required me to use a variety of techniques in photoshop in order to make my poster look professional and high-quality. The video shows the stages in which I put the poster together but it does not show all of the processes I did, such as erasing the background around the images that I used and also how I added the different effects to the images so that they all blend together and all look part of the same product.

The start and finish of my poster:

My poster began as the main images simply layered on to of each other in order for me to get an idea of what the poster would look like once it was finished. In this part of the poster I had erased to background around the image of the main actor and also placed it on top of the background that I chose to have as the background to my poster. 

This is the basic parts of my poster put together, they were unedited and did not blend together very well. I put these together just to get a sense of what my finalised poster would look like.

This is my finished poster with more images added on top to catch the audience's attention and also to give a sense of danger. I have also added a tag line so that I can capture the attention of the audience and also tell them what the film will be about.

 My poster ended up with a variety of different aspects included in it, such as the bomber, smoke and the paratroopers. In order to make my poster more effective I changed the font of the text to make it stand out more, and also 'weathered' it to make it look battered and old. I got the idea of 'weathering' the titles from other film posters such as Band of Brothers and FURY.