Working With Photoshop.

Technology seems to be everything in our current media environment, whether its from CGI or just using photoshop, with out it films seem aged and unprofessional. So with this in mind I knew that I had to gain skills of a certain standard so that my film poster looked convincing. 

We had a workshop where we just had to put images together. 

I started with these images: 

And after a lot of editing I ended up with this: 

I wanted to create something quite abstract so that I had used all the possible skills that I would need when it came to making my film poster. I layered things, cut things and changed that colour. 

The next thing to think about was creating a film poster and how they lo0k. I chose a film that i knew really well, Moulin Rouge. I also knew that there were many iconic images within Moulin Rouge; from the famous windmill to the two protagonists singing etc. 

I also looked at some of the previous film posters, to see if I was able to encourparate anything, or get any ideas: 
  Interestingly the second of the two posters I focused on used the idea of grids. Something we got told about after my initial research. On photoshop, and when creating posters in general, not just film posters grids are used so that the maker can see how the poster will be split up.
This is my final Moulin Rouge poster: 

I also wanted to experiment with text, as when doing my Moulin Rouge poster I found it hard to find colours that could be seen. I found a simple picture of Black  Swan and tried to experiment with effects and ensuring the writing was visible: