Movie Poster

YOUR MOVIE POSTER REQUIREMENTS:

YOUR TURN- FIND YOUR INSPIRATION

Search ​pixabay​(please only use pixabay) for an image of a person (photograph) that somehow “strikes” you in an emotional way. The emotion can be happy, sad, funny, gross, weird, unique. Don’t limit yourself to “snowboarder”, or “football player” just let yourself search through the website for something/someone that you would like to portray as a character in a movie. Download the highest file size that you can get off of pixabay. (example XL)

NOTE: the movie poster will be TALL/PORTRAIT orientation, so you MAY want to consider that as you are looking for resources.

RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS

1. One (1) high resolution file of a person (emotional)
2. Two (2) high resolution files of “elements” that you will extract with channels (​such as the fire, smoke use in the practice image)
3. One (1) TEXTURE file (you may use a texture from groupshares)
4. Brush: Download & install a new photoshop brush to use in the image. Try the websites ​brusheezy​ or Brushlovers.com or just google “photoshop brushes”
5. (not for the 2015, term 4 class) Download & Install the SteelTongs font & fill in a movie poster information block at the bottom of your poster.

CREATE using Photoshop

● Use the listed resources(above) to put together an image

● change the ​hue/saturation​of at least 2 elements

● Use ​HDR toning ​on one of the images

● Use at least 1​layer style

● Use at least one BLENDING mode other than “normal” on the layers palette

MOVIE POSTER

Place the created image on the Movie Poster file

Add the following:

1. MOVIE TITLE: Select an appropriate font for the Movie Title (search dafont.com), remember to keep it “kind of” simple and easy to read, similar to the style you have seen in professional movie posters
2. PROFESSIONAL LOOK: Be sure to study other professionally created movie posters size and coloring of the fonts and apply a similar look to all of your movie poster text/fonts
3. MAIN CHARACTER NAME: Type in Main Character’s name, use appropriate font similar to what you have seen in other movie posters
4. ELEMENT: Add At least 1 other element (production company designed logo, other graphics, you choose)
5. LAYER STYLE: Apply a layer style to one of the text/type layers

QUICK TIPS

1. Be considerate and conscious of your typography.
2. Try tracking, kerning
3. Be conscious of your proportions of the graphics, hold shift when resizing
4. Watch edges & overcrowding of elements and type
5. Refer to OTHER movie posters before you begin to layout the text on the poster