CONSTRUCTION: FILM POSTER

When constructing the film poster, Beatrice and I did various sketches of what we thought the film poster should consist of. I already had a clear idea that it would have some influence from the Single White Female poster, since I felt that the poster was intriguing and was similar to our target audience. In addition to this, we already had a checklist of information that was needed on the poster, like the title and billing block which are essential to all posters.

After various rough sketches we finished with two final sketches which we thought were respectablely complex, yet not too crowded.  My sketch is the one to the left, which solely consists of Sam with the title, tagline and billing block. Bea's sketch is the one to the right, which consists of an extreme close up of Sam's face, including square-shaped images, which would have been photos of Jasmine and Ana. The title and tagline were in the top left-hand corner. We decided to choose my sketch idea over hers. Despite, previously saying that we would consider putting as well the victim's face along with the sociopath's face. Beatrice and I decided that we wanted the poster to be focused on Sam only.

After we made the final decision on the sketch we would base the poster on, we had to do a quick photoshoot of James Eager, who portrays the role of Sam in the film. We did this in the art studio with a white backdrop. The reason, we did this so was that when it came to editing the poster and manipulating the image it would be easy to remove the white background. I asked James if he could wear a black jumper so it blends in with the background which on the final poster will be black. Chloe was the person who took the pictures of James with the Canon 750D. When it came to the photoshoot, James and Chloe were efficient with their time by taking various shots and various angles, so that we could see what would look best on the poster.

Bea and I were the editors of the poster and we did all of our work of the poster using photoshop, since we felt that this was a convenient and practical tool, since we could do a variety of effects on Photoshop, such as blurring James' spots from his face, changing the background from white to black and adding texts onto the image.

Bea and I debated on which tagline we should use for the poster. We had a total of 4 options which were:
- A photographer's desire to keep everything in focus
- A desire to keep everything in focus
- A photographer's obsession, A girl's fear all begins when he's in focus
- Keep still to be in focus

Bea thought that the tagline shouldn't be that long and decided that we should use the second tagline listed above. However, I preferred the first tagline, since it incorporates the story into the tagline about how he is a photographer and keeps everything in focus, referring to a camera being in focus.

We ended up finishing the poster in the lesson with adding all the necessities of a poster that I listed in the research which was: title, tagline, close up of a face, billing block, cast members names and institutional information. This was definitely a team effort, by Bea and I being the editors, Chloe being the photographer and James being the subject of the image, we worked together efficiently.

This is our final product for the film poster: