Film Poster - Photoshop, Part 2

Now that I had finished adjusting certain parts of the image, my main focus now were the titles and texts I was going to use. I wanted to find a text that would in a way relate to the synopsis of our project, since it is based in a educational enviroment. I came across the text 'Chalkduster' which I felt was relevant to use because it has that childish handwriting style to it which was something we were looking for, and by the styles and ideas we had in mind for the this text meant that we a selection of ideas to choose from in order to pick the correct one.




What I did to make this text my own was to change the colour and create the title of our project. I chose the colour red as it connotes blood, danger and awarness, which is one of the themes portrayed in our storyline.


This was my first idea of how the text should look like on the poster. The text positioned on the right hand side vertically at the size of 250pt with no effects added. Looking back on what I did, I wasnt pleased with my original idea as the title looked flat and didnt stand out from the rest of the other texts around it, so this made me move over to my second idea.

With this idea now, I posistioned the text nearer to the bottom of the poster in the centre at a slightly smaller size of 200pt with a bevel and emboss effect added. I was pleased with the outcome of this idea as gives you a chance to see the whole of the image. i had made text title of the poster more bolder which gives off a 3D effect with the light shining on different areas of the text. Also, the Chalkduster font with the bevel and emboss effect creates a dry blood effect around the text, which is something I tried to endorse.

For the slogan 'Nothing Like an 'A' Star Killer', I had used the Chalkduster font again positioned in the upper left hand corner at the size of 50pt. On second throughts, I didnt like the way it looked so I changed the font into Lithos Pro, which was positioned above the main title. I had also changed the colour from red to grey, as I felt that it would complement the title and it also gives the poster a authentic touch. I also added the date 'October 2011' in my second idea to try and give as much information to the target audience.

Lastly for the credits, I used the Lithos Pro font again positioned at the bottom of the poster at 35pt. I thourght I had used the colour red too much, so I changed it into grey and at a slightly smaller font size. The reason why I chose to use the Lithos Pro font was because I was trying to find a font that looked similar to Steeltongs font, which is the font used in most film posters. This particualr font was quite difficult to get hold of, hence why I chose a slightly similar font that did the same job.