Two Faced (My Movie Poster)

The image below is the finished product of my movie poster and original slasher movie for a horror genre type film in this blog i am going to explain the idea of the movie and the process in making it.

The film is based around a new serial killer who has escaped from an asylum and is taking his revenge on child hood bullies thirteen years later.

The film is called Two Faced because of a main story line about his split personality and how he was treated by everyone he also wears two masks showing his emotion at the time he slashes his victims.

Process

Firstly i needed raw photos to use to make the project work linking with the theme so the first pictures i took were of theatre masks both happy and sad along with some textures there wasn't a lot of photos due to such a simple complex for the poster.

Below are the photos used.

When these photos were taken i made a start to the poster firstly the masks had to be cropped so they were cut in half on one side so later they would come together as a single mask once this was done i used the colour balance option to make the mask a dark brown before this i put the masks together and saved it as a JPEG file so not lose the mask and a PSD file would have layers which later on would be more trouble to use.

Below is the process on making the mask

Once the mask was finished it was time to texture the mask with the photos that i provided before to do this i used a featuring called masking in which you get a colour or an image and make one layer overlay the other one to make something called a mask or a texture to give the mask a lot more life to it to make it look more realistic and to keep with the theme of the genre below is the work of texturing the mask also the finished product.

once all the texturing was done and playing around with the brightness and contrast and the colour balance for the textures also adding a shadow to the mask. it left the picture looking empty which is shown below.

the mask is dead centre but around it there is space so i created a red border around the mask to do this i opened a transparent background then used the paint tool to draw red border to symbolise blood and death to tie in with the theme of horror.

when this border was i made i over laid the border then used the FX options to make the border darker and also added a bevel to it to make it look more menacing to mix with the film genre below is the border postponed around the mask before adding the text and the icons.

Now that the features have were created it was time to focus on the title and the information for the poster first the title. For the movie title i used a font found on DAfonts called "Crimes times six"the text below shows what the text looks like.

below is what the poster looks like when the title text has been added,coloured and has FX put together.

The final task is to add normal text and information about the movie to the poster this was the easier task of the others all i needed was the type tool and some images of the BBFC rating and a film company once this was added to the poster it was finally finished the final product is shown above and below the blog. the stars were vector images that i found on the photoshop shape tool.

That is how the two faced poster was made the process was a long process but the final result was worth it.