Film Poster Progression

After receiving feedback one clear thing was that some of the text was difficult to read and this text was a very important part to the film poster itself. I went back into Photoshop and looked at various ways to make it stand out more. Initially I thought of changing the colour however changing it to white would cause problems as when it stretched across parts of the image which were white it would have been impossible to read, therefore I looked at adding some effects to it instead. I found a simple way of improving it by adding an outer glow which was white. This allowed it to be read easier as well as standing out better on the tshirt. I also did the same for the Coming Soon which also is now a lot easier to read. It also makes it more eye catching to the audience.

Before effect

After effect





As well as making that a lot clearer people who gave me feedback also said that the film title and the actors name could have something done to it to make it stand out more. I had seen on posters before a slightly blurred same bit of text off centered which worked well as it made it more eye catching. I decided to do a similar thing with this text as it would work well. To do this I duplicated the same text layer and applied a Motion Blur filter by going to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur after doing this i then off centered it by using the Free Transform tool (Ctrl + T) which meant I could position where I wanted it.



No Motion Blur

With Motion Blur 






I also noticed the majority of posters all used a tagline which I felt my poster needed to make it seem more of a professional poster. I then referred back to our dialog we used for the trailer and felt using a quote said in the trailer would be ideal for the tagline, In the end I decided to choose: "You've got to be constantly looking over your shoulder" which also links in with the main image on the poster.