Making the teaser Poster

Having looked at other existing horror posters such as for the orphanage and Eden lake, we have begun the process of making our own poster to go with our trailer.

We have chosen to use Photoshop to put our poster together because it gives us a lot of tools and effects to use in our poster that will really help us to create the right atmosphere. I also have a lot of experience working with Photoshop in previous projects such as my music magazine and in my extended project for which I used it to colour in the panels in my comic book.

I started by getting the Images I needed for my design. I got a good still of Benji in the cult in an action pose and it is nice and centered, It also has the forest looming over it much like with the Eden lake poster. I also wanted to have some faded eyes up top of the poster because I find that eyes work very well in horror posters so I found a good picture of a pair of eyes on the internet.

I put each picture on a separate layer and adjusted the opacity of the image of the eyes to create the transparent faded look I was talking about and it seemed to fit well with the tree silhouettes in the background.

I thought it would be a good idea to create a black foggy boarder to give the poster more of a closed in feel which would also enhance the imagery in the middle of the poster.