Starting to Construct our Poster!

AS we want to make a poster to promote our movie we had to obviously take pictures to put on our poster that may give a clue to the story line our movie holds. We got our inspiration from the 2 posters we analysed, as both had images that looked like they were in motion. To make our poster look like that we had our main character flip her hair to try and make it look like her head it snapping around really fast. We took many different shots but some failed as you can see below: 

This shot was our very first shot and as your can see the main character does not hold the right facial expression to set the correct mood for our poster.

This picture would have worked if the characters hair looked like it was in motion but also if it wasn't head on but the facial expression worked better than all the rest.

To try and make our character have the right facial expression we asked her to close her mouth and bite down so her jaw would tense this worked but again the picture was taken to late so the picture was face on.

From the above shots you can see we had to be quite precise on how we wanted our character to look in these pictures however we did get a picture that would work for our poster which is to the left. However the facial expression seems almost as if our character is about to smile so we decided we could edit it on Photoshop. This is convenient as we will be using Photoshop to construct our poster anyway. To enhance the motion of the picture we also decided blur and smudge our image to the right to ensure  it looked more in motion but it also gave our poster the psychological thriller edge we were hoping to achieve.




Below is how our image looked after we edited the things mentioned above. We also changed the lighting so it looked like half of our characters face was darker than the other. This fit with our story line as it makes our character have a darker side or a different side to her which would follow through with our story line as our character is crazy.

This is a screen grab of how our 
picture looks after we enhanced and changed the things we wanted to achieve. To create this look we used the Burn and Dodge Tool and the Sharpen, Smudge and Burn tool. We used the smudge tool mostly which gave us the motion look but also the supernatural edge and feel to the picture.






As this is just the first picture we will be working over the next 2 weeks in conjunction with editing our opening sequence so they can both be ready for the time of our deadline and can be released simultaneously!