Poster analysis

Design. The design for my poster was inspired by several things, with a lot of customisation which makes it unique. The colour is based on the colour scheme from last years blockbuster (The Spirit), black, grey and red. The face was changed by photoshop and made to look like it had in the film with no colour, and a few creepy adjustments like the long ears and fangs etc. I tried hard to come up with some better and original backgrounds for behind the character, but went with an image of a dark hallway I found online instead. Colour. From the very beginning, I knew that the colour of the poster would have to be dark, since the genre is inception/horror styled, it would have to convey as dark, brooding and threatening to the audience. The characters skin was made pale and airbrushed well in photoshop, it stands out bold from the dark background, so people really notice some of the darker coloured details on his pale face. The headings were to stand out too, which was a challenge, that is when I decided to use a colour scheme of a film, using three specifics, black and white shades for the image and then using a colour for the title. I needed the title to match the image in some way, anyway; so I made his tie red. The title. The title was brought upon the group. It's font was a long gothic type, I found that it was clear to read and matched the layout of the picture perfectly so I decided to keep it. I thought about the placement of the title a lot while editing the poster, I initially wanted to have it going across the top. What made me change this was that
If I had it across the top, the characters face wouldn't be noticed as much, and I also found that the title looked silly in any other placement than the bottom. So I went with the most profession looking placement.