Horror Film Poster

My film poster’s form is Horror and it is a film called ‘Dead and Gone’ and the slogan for the film is ‘are you scared when you’re alone?’ The main signifier for my poster is a close up, head and shoulder shot of a girl, when signified I think she looks deathly and also eerie but frightened to represent the theme and show the audience an insight of the contents of the film. Her colouring is almost black and white, which is juxtaposition with her bright blue eyes and the bright red of the film title. I edited the photograph using Adobe Photoshop. I used the dodge, sponge and burn tools to create different colouring on the girl. I also sharpened the image to create a clearer image. I liquefied the eyes to make her pupils bigger. She is supposed to appear scared and alone to link to the film’s slogan; her large eyes and the pose of her hand help to create these emotions for the audience. The editing on Adobe helped to make the image more horrific and suited to the film’s genre. There is dark smudging around the image of the girl to create a feeling of darkness to suggest that she is all alone. The film is about a girl who believes her mother is dead (hence the title) but who comes back to haunt her when she is alone (thus the slogan). Secrets unravel throughout the film and there is a twisted, violent ending.
My original idea was to create a poster for a film called ‘The Mask’, the poster was going to be made up of paradigms of a mask, a girl wearing it and her intense eye sight through the eye holes in the mask. The image was black and white to give it a more traditional feel and to link with Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’, as it is a horror classic. Each character in the title was going to be written in a different font to represent how people wear different masks and have different thoughts behind those masks. I did not use this idea because it seemed too simple and I wanted to experiment using Photoshop and challenge myself.
I also created a poster for a teen thriller/horror about a girl who experiments with drugs and therefore begins to regret taking these drugs whilst she is ‘tripping’ as the visions become reality. She always reverts back to a drug called Ketamine as she believes she cannot hallucinate whilst under the influence on it however she takes it too far and begins to hallucinate. The title of the film is ‘Regretamine’ which is play off the word ‘regret’ and the drug ‘Ketamine.’ The film slogan is ‘where will your next trip take you?’ which suggests a literal and physical but also psychological ‘trip.’ The poster was made up of paradigms of a repeated image of a girl however each image is more distorted and there is a build up of colour to recreate how real life drug takers claim they feel when they are ‘high’. However I chose not to use this poster as it was too brightly coloured for a horror film and looked too much like an album cover.
I was slightly disappointed with my final poster idea as it seemed to be a final resort after my original ideas did not work out. However I was pleased with the final outcome as I thought it looked professional and the image tied in well with the text through colour and composition.