Friday, 7 December 2012

Creating the poster. - Photo Choice

After i reviewed my photoshop skills from last year, this was my selection of pictures I could use for a film poster

 I chose to use this image as the cover for my film magazine because of the position of Nathan. In the other images I had, Nathan is at the side of the image which is a very irregular feature of a film magazine, where the main character tends to be the centre piece of the image. This allowed me to ensure the audiences focus is fully on
 Nathan.
I was possibly going to use this image as the cover for my film poster. I planned on turning this into a black and white image on photoshop and getting the "gritty gangster film" theme. However, I was told this may be inappropriate as the poster would be aimed for the public eye to see, and may be too violent for children.

 The quality of this picture did not turn out how I intended, and with the camera provided we could not do any better than this. Therefore, this could not be used as the cover for my film magazine or poster as the quality didnt meat the standards I required.

 I chose to use this for the photo of my film poster, carefully blacking out much of the gun so it doesn't appear too "violent". Many other film posters about gangster movies rarely feature guns on their film posters or anything of a violent nature, but the same can't be said for horror films if the argument is this may upset possible viewers, however horror is a completely different genre. This fits the culture of hidden violence and secrecy which is why i chose to use it, as well as featuring Nathan in a central position.

 I used a picture similar to this for my AS project, with the camera fixed on the right of the image in a medium shot showing around the chest area up. However, I wanted to challenge myself and do something different this time around and opted against using a similar shot. I decided this would not be appropriate for either a film poster or film magazine as Nathan would need to be more centrally placed to be the subject of the viewer.

 I was again advised that the image may be too violent, espercially as Nathan is shown pointing the gun at the viewer in this.

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