So far to edit our poster we have used Photoshop. This is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software. It has been described as an industry standard for graphic professionals which is one of the reasons we have chosen this program to edit our poster image.
Whilst researching into film posters we have discovered that the most effective kind of poster contains a group of people as opposed to just one. We took our inspiration for ours from the poster Sorority Row which consists of a group of girls draped over one another. This is where we got the idea of having the characters of our film draping over the metal bars and the inspiration for the dead expressions on their faces, however having one character with a smug look on their face to add contrast and create enigma.
Out of the three we chose this image as we thought it was the best composition and gave the effect we intended. However after looking at our research into existing media we found that they all had black background whereas our image had a brick background. Therefore we only wanted the people and the metal bars in the foreground. This is where Photoshop came in, we were not confident users of Photoshop and so it took us some time to teach ourselves you remove the background and replace it with black. The images above show the process. Once we had removed the brick we thought that the image was too bright so we used Picasa to reduce the brightness and increase the shadows to give it an effect that fitted in with the horror genre.
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