Poster Mock Up- By Colette

We thought about our poster quite early into the task and discussed some ideas on our blog HERE. The first time we filmed we decided to take some photographs of one of the 'yobs' as we decided that we wanted our  poster to contain one of the younger rioters as to not give away the reveal at the end of our story.

We took these photos using a Canon 1000D Camera. We decided to use a DSLR Camera because it gives a high quality, very large image which is easy to edit and wont look 'pixely' when it is blown up into a poster. We. have already decided on the font and colour of our title as shown HERE and the style of the editing shown HERE. 

Now we are focusing on composition and the other smaller details on the poster as well as which raw image we want to start with. Below is a mock up I made on Photoshop along with some of the techniques I used to manipulate the image. 

^ First I opened the image in Photoshop. Here is the original image with no editing

^I heightened the contrast of the image to make the image stronger and more powerful. I then selected the hoodie using the magic wand tool and desaturated the clothing as I felt the bright blue of the hoodie made the character seem too approachable when we wanted him to look threatening! 

^ I then used the "T" (text) tool to add text to the poster. I used this tool to create ratings about the film, the credit box, the production company logo, tagline, website and other information found in film posters. 

I then pasted in the title (which we made before) and the age certificate. 

Here is the mock-up!!!

What could be improved: 

• We still need to think of a tagline for the film; ideas of this will be up on the blog soon!
• Empty space- there is a space between the tagline and credits box that needs to be filled
• Title; we could outline this with black to make it stand out more
• Reviews- edit the reviews to target our audience, maybe add one more above the two we have?
• Age Certification; for now I decided on a 12 certificate because of violent themes and offensive language however this needs to be discussed further among our group after looking at the official criteria for age certification
• Company logo; this is a (very) quick mock up I made for the production company. This will most definitely change; Shannen has a lot of knowledge and skill in branding and has created logos before in Business Studies so she will be better at creating a suitable logo

By Colette :)