Compositing Creating a Film poster for Behind the Door

These are the instructions to create my Film Poster.

I have shown you what I have done to create my poster Behind the door. You can try some of these techniques.

Genre: Horror

Title: Behind the Door

Tag line: Once you see it, it's too late

My Example: I added the following PNG's and textures to the Base Image

*download your images for workshop here*

The base image

We started with the base image and added the png's and atmospheres to the photograph.

We create atmosphere and Mood with filters and layer effects.

Result

Photoshop techniques used for the image:

Dodge and Burn Tool (Shadows, using a large brush) to darken the image (increases the glow from the light of the door and darken the shadow) This is a distructive technique. It will destroy your image.

To achieve it in a none-distructive way and make adjustments you can use an adjustment layer (choose Curves and Darken) make sure your brush is soft and has some hardness but you can't see the lines when you start to darken and lighten your image. See link for how to do this. How to Dodge and Burn in Photoshop

• Newspaper: Used transform tool, Perspective to make it look like it is placed on the floor.

• Smoke Overlay (layer effect screen and opacity 72%) This removes the black background by making it appear transparent.

  
  

• Cracked glass (layer effect Normal)

  
  

• Bullet Holes in the wall (Layer effect Colour Dodge) use your judgement here as it depends on the darkeness of your base photo. I duplicated the layer and added a couple in the wall rotating them.

Text:

• Title Font 28 Days Later   install your font and then use it with a Text FX

• Add the Tagline smaller typeface

• Studio Logo postition (Netflix)

In your blog:

Title: Behind the Door Photoshop Film poster

category: Audience

1. Show your Photoshop layers and final poster export.

   Use technical terms to say what you did to create the poster eg. Adjustment Layers, compositing, layer effects, dodge and burn.

   
   

2. Audience: What genre is the poster you have made for the film "Behind the Door"? What type of Audience might want to see this film? What makes a good horror movie poster? 

   
   

horror_poster_checklist.pdf

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3. Using the check list above. How could you visualise this in a Horror film idea and show this on your own film poster? Choose another image and effects from the links below to visualise ONE of the following into a Horror Poster.

   
   

Title: Dark Timber (Slasher Horror)

Tagline: The woods have eyes… and they’re hungry

Title: Whispers in the Timber (Psychological Horror)

Tagline: In the silence of the woods, something is watching… and waiting

Title: Echoes of the Blackwood (Supernatural Mystery)

Tagline: Every shadow hides a secret

Textures and Assets:  Free textures and tutorials for Photoshop and more! (texturelabs.org) 

Fonts: DaFont - Download fonts

Images png: PNGitem - Millions of Pure HD Transparent PNG Images For Free Download

High quality Photos:

• Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash

•  Free Stock Photos, Royalty Free Stock Images & Copyright Free Pictures · Pexels 

• 2.7 million+ Stunning Free Images to Use Anywhere - Pixabay - Pixabay 

4. What new techniques have you shown in photoshop doing your own Horror poster. Show the Photoshop workspace and layers. Show the final exported poster.

   
   

   1. What did you do to create your Horror Poster?

   2. What elements have you added to the visual of your poster to sell the film to the audience? Where did you get these elements from? How did you know how to use them?

   3. Does it hint about what the film might be about?

   4. If you chose Slasher horror, Supernatural mystery or Psychological horror (what would the audience expect to see in the poster?)

      
      

5. How sucessful was your poster? Get some Audience, peer feedback and make changes to your design. Show before and after.