ANCILLARY POSTER (STEPS) PRODUCTION LOG

While I am creating my poster I am going to do a production log to show the steps I have taken to complete and edit the poster task.

The software that I am going to be using is ‘Adobe Photoshop CS6’ and since using this program last year I feel I am a good user so I’ll be able to produce a poster to a good level.

First I opened the Photoshop program then chose my page size which was A4 I then went onto to make the back ground black so I could use lighter colours of text so they stand out on the poster.

First I found an image of a Golden apple on Google which I went onto edit in Photoshop I edited the apple by using the ‘Bevel’ tool which allowed me to make part of the apple lighter on one side and dark on the other. I also used the ‘Magic Wand’ tool which allowed me to crop around the image and get rid of the background so the apple would just be a circle.After I done this I added the Apple to the poster.

After I had finished editing the Apple I added it over the black background which I positioned the image of the apple to be the centre of the page so it stands out.

After I had finished editing the image I then went onto add the title of the poster. Firstly I chose the text I wanted to use for the title which was ‘Bodoni’.

Then I used different effects as ‘Bevel & Emboss and Gradient overlay’ to edit the effect of the title text. The Gradient overlay effect allowed me to make the text have two colours which were ‘Gold & White’ which mixed in with each other and the ‘Bevel & Emboss’ tool allowed me to make the text bold which stands out on the poster.

I then added the edited text underneath the image to make the title and image correspond with each other on the poster.

To keep consistency throughout the poster I used the same font and gradient overlay colours so they correspond with one another on the poster and so the target audience doesn’t get distracted by too many different things happening on the poster.

Through my research on posters I found that they used taglines so on my poster I decided to do the same so I could attract my target audience.

This is the poster with the tagline included at the top of the page I originally had the tagline in the apple with a black font but it didn’t work so I chose to move it to the top where nothing else was so the tagline could stand out.

Like all the other text on the poster I’ve kept everything the same with font and effect tools to keep the consistency.

I included ‘Most anticipated’ because I felt this would attract the target audience and would be the unique selling point alongside the tagline which would help sell the movie.

As all the text has the same effects and font I decided to spread them out across the poster so they aren’t close to each other and as you can see they all have different Gradient angles from one another.

Finally I added the last bit of text which was the credits on the poster of the creators of the project and the actors involved in the movie. The same font ‘Bodoni’ is used but unlike all other text on the poster I decided to use a white colour font and I didn’t use the effects that I used on all the other pieces of text I placed on the poster.

This is the complete design of the poster with all the relevant features on it to draw in the audience many codes and conventions were challenged such as the use of image normally movies have a photograph of the main actors I decided to use an apple which emphasises the significances of the apple in the movie.

Also on the poster I added my groups production name ‘Bigger & Better’ at the bottom of the page so the audience could establish who made the movie. Which was made by Thamina The image which is used at the bottom of the poster to

identify our company.

Completed ancillary poster.