Finished Film Poster

The two pictures above are the pictures that I narrowed down from several that I wanted to go on my Film Poster, the first image is of a candle that I took in my living room to symbolise the slogan 'Don't turn out the light' I thought it would be a good idea to put a candle as the main image as it shows light and a small source of it, so if that went out then there would be complete DARKNESS which is related to the film. When I was putting the image in onto the poster it kept going blurry and very stretched and it wouldn't go the way that I wanted it to go, I tried to darken it and that didn't work, I also tried to crop it to make the whole image smaller and just focus on the candle and that didn't work either so I tried the second image. The second image of Sabrina walking down a country road was much better it was easier to fit onto the front page as there was a lot of the image to work with and I had the choice weather to make the image smaller or keep it the same, I decided to keep the image the same size as it fits the page perfectly with everything going over the top of the image. 

This is my Film poster for 'The Darkness' this image took a long time to put together as it took a lot of thought as I wanted to put the candle on the front cover to allow it to go with the slogan 'Don't turn out the light' as the candle would have represented the light and the only thing that is stopping bad things from happening if and when the light goes out, which is the message from the film itself, this would have been a good idea if the image would have stretched and fit to the place that I wanted it to but it didn't so I had to go down another route, which lead me to use the image that is on the poster itself. This image was taken on the 23rd of October 2011 it is of Sabrina in her costume of black coat, blue jeans and converse trainers the coat adds the affects of creepiness to show that she is maybe searching for something or waiting for 'THE DARKNESS' to come before she does something terrible that isn't given away in the trailer. The affects that are added to the image are stroke this made the image darker and added the affect of something happening when the sun goes down all I did to add this affect was to double click the picture and select the stroke option and use the dial to move 'THE DARKNESS' up or down, which I choose to put down it would have given the wrong message if I was to put the stroke up because it wouldn't be creepy or mysterious like I wanted it to be. The second thing is the text 'DONT TURN OUT THE LIGHTS', 'THE DARKNESS' and 'SUMMER 2012' these where all made on cooltext.co.uk these where very easy to make, all I had to do was to pick the text I wanted, the affect, and the colour of it, then I clicked the download button and I placed them onto the poster to allow them to fit the way that I wanted them to when the poster was complete, I kept them all the same colour as it keeps a consistent house style and I made then larger and smaller by clicking 'CTRL+T' and changed the size that I wanted to make sure that I was happy with what I produced. The billing block took a long time to do as the main title are in bold and capitals and the likes of the words 'presents' and 'director of' these where put in a smaller size text as that is less important than the the main title that are on the block, the words on the billing block are:

"UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS 

 IN ASSOCIATION WITH LEGENDARY PICTURES A MAD CHANCE/WEED ROAD PRODUCTION JOSEPH CALDON SABRINA MALHOTRA NICOLLE ABBOTT CHRIS KINGSBURY ANDREW KELLER CLARE GARSIDE MUSIC BY MARCO BELTRAM AND RILEY WILSON EDITED BY DAN HEALETY A.C.E KENT BENYLA A.C.E FERNANDO VERTIRA PRODUCTION DESIGNER TOM MEYER DIRECTOR OF 

PHOTOGRAPHY KEVIN JOESON BASED ON A NOVEL BY LYDIA OLWESON CO-PRODUCERS ALEXANDRA PARKER LEX LOTHER 

HANNAH FYLER EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS THOMAS HILL CLARE GARSIDE 

WILLIAM FAY JACK ETHIENET STORY BY DESERET BOOK CO. AND WILSON & JACKSON SCREENPLAY BY WILSON & JACKSON PRODUCED BY EVEN IPLSON AND CHRISTINA YANG DIRECTED BY MICHAEL BAY"

I added the Legendary pictures and Universal pictures logos to the bottom of the page as I researched posters that have been done in the past and they showed a large billing block with pictures of the companies that are involved along the bottom of the screen underneath the billing block and not above. I also added the book company that produced the book that the film is based on and also another company that helped make the film. The billing block consists of made up names and also names of people that where involved in the making of the film such as Sabrina Malhotra, Nicolle Abbott, Andrew Keller etc, it also has real names of real people that are in the film business such as Michael Bay who is a famous film director.