Movie poster process

This is the original image that I had taken on a Nikon Coolpix camera. The image was taken in my kitchen where I knew that I could use the smudge tool to even out the colours and create a new background from the one that was already created. 

This was the starting image with the painted background and the main image. This was the raw version with no added layers. The background was originally to be painted and left like that. However, I didn't feel like there was much dimension and texture to the image so I had then added layers and changed the occupancy in order to show the texture using different images. 

For the main image used in my trailer, I had looked at different style models of real posters that exist for my genre of movie. As my genre is dystopian, it was easy to find futuristic looking images. The main posters that I looked at where Insurgent, Lucy and The Maze Runner. With looking at the conventions of these posters,  wanted to create something to suggest to the genre.

All of the dystopian genre posters had either one or more persons in an action shot. With my poster I created this to show the main purpose of the story. That being that she is trapped and arrested for her powers.

To create the background of the image I had painted it in block colours originally. To create to realism and texture to the surfaces I took images of cobbled floor and brick walls and used the occupancy of them to just show the outline of the bricks over the main colour. I then photoshopped the main character in and painted the purple electric coming from her hands along with the shadow on the floor and dark depths of the main corner. I went with the bluish/ purple colour for the power to show the electricity. I used different shades of the colour in order to show it going from different directions and to stand out from the main background.

With the main title shown below, I didn't want just block lettering with no dimension. To create a more complex title I used the eraser tool to remove pieces of the lettering and re painted them further off to give the illusion of the title shattering a little and eroding away.

This is the finished movie poster with all of the conventions of any magazine. This includes the main title being 'Shatter me'. All of the posters also shown the producers who would work on the film including set design and costume design- anyone who would have contributed into making the movie. In addition, it shows the rating of the movie and the logo to the production company. The main actors name is also displayed along the top. This is used so that people can recognise the name if they are looking for movies of their favourite actors.