Creating Film Posters

As an introduction to the second year of Media Studies, we are using photoshop to create a film poster for our first year horror film. This is the first time many of us have used photoshop so it has been a new learning experience. I have had to do a lot of troubleshooting to get to the stage I am at, at the moment. The photo was taken of our male lead using synthetic lighting and against a blank screen, this then made it easier for my editing process to begin. The idea behind it is, the journalist is using his job to hide behind so no one will know that he is killing girls to create the perfect woman. Hence there is newspaper print layered of his profile.

Below are some shots of my poster process. The first shows the basic image. The next shows with some text. The third shows it with new text and the image moved over to the right, so there isn't a huge blank space.