Horror Poster

In our first lesson we had to come up with four ideas for a horror poster. My first few ideas weren’t exactly easy to do because I would need some professional photographs. When we were split into groups I pitched all of my ideas to the other three people, who seemed to agree with me that my first ideas were not excellent ideas because it would be very time consuming if I chose any of those three. I then pitched my last one which I had thought about a little longer. I decided then that I would use my younger sisters’ face as the victim, because she has a young looking face which instantly make her more vulnerable than say a grown man. I then thought it would work if the attacker was a grown man, because a stereotypical attacker is usually a man. My idea began as a sketch I drew of a young girl in an ECU of her eyes and nose. I then drew the silhouette of a man in the pupil of her eye, as a reflection of what she was seeing.
So, to create this I had two take two simple pictures, one was of an ECU of my little sister and the other was a MS of my dad in an attacking pose. I uploaded the two pictures into Photoshop, so that I could then start editing my sisters’ face. I used the “Liquefy” tool so that her pupils were a lot bigger, so that she looked surprised and I could also then fit in the silhouette of my dad. To the image of my sister I used the “Burn” tool so that you couldn’t see the hair line and it made her look like she was in a dark room. I gave the image the feeling of being in a dark because I thought it would look a little more terrifying than a ‘bright, colourful and cheery’ room, I wanted it to have a mysterious, deep and dark feel to it.
Whereas editing my dads’ photo was a little harder because I had to use the “Polygon Lasso”, this was quite difficult because when ever the silhouette didn’t look threatening enough I would have to start again. It took a while but ‘practice make perfect’. I minimised the size if my dad so that he would fit into the pupil of the victim. Once there was “reflection” of my dad in her eyes, I used the “Sponge” tool, and desaturated him so that he looked black and white and the reflection wouldn’t be so light and colourful. This also made it look like the room around her was dark too. To make it look like the attacker was really a “reflection” I put a white glint onto so that it looked like the light was reflecting off too.
Finally I came up with a title, slogan and made up a director and a company that ‘made’ the film. I used red and black for most of the writing because they relate to death blood and terror, which is the impression I want to give.