Film Poster Development and Final piece

The product itself was started after filming for the trailer stopped, after achieving some of the pictures that i wanted to get, i set to work editing them.

I was using a program which is very similar to photoshop, but as their was not a version of Adobe photoshop readily avaiable i had to improvise, i was forced to download an image manipulation program called "GNU gimp" this served as an adequeate program to cut, and create the images which i needed and mold them into a new poster for the world to see.

The process was not difficult in creating the film poster. Once i had my conventions and intentions correct i had to set about reshaping the images that were before me. The first two images are of the two main characters (Alex and Nathan) and the third is a small background image which would require more than just cutting around.

In order to create a poster similar to the Aliens vs Predator one i needed to first cut around my two main images and get them onto blank canvas. Using the magic wand tool to highlight huge sections of the image which stood out from each other, the intial process of the cutting only took a few minutes but it was after the wand could not distinguish between the character and the background that the manual cutting needed to be done. Using the loop cut tool, i set to work cutting around the edges of each of my images, this process took alot longer than it would have done if the wand could distinguish between the smallest colour detail on an image. The manual cutting required me to go around the image lines in the smallest of detail to get a precise cut on what i wanted.

Once the images were both cut out with accuracy i had to then copy them onto a blank canvas. Originally i had intended it to be on an A4 piece of canvas, unfortunatly the images would need to be stretched far more than they could have been without making them pixelated and blurry.
Eventually it was decided that i would put it on a 600 x 400 pixel page in order to the best fit to be achieved.

The two images were then positioned at the very top of the page looking directly into each others eyes, much like the Aliens vs Predator poster this creates a feeling of tenseness within the people who read it as they ask themselves "why are they fighting" "who are they" "could this be epic". The image of the luggage which was also cut out has been added to the background in between the two characters eyes which makes it look like the luggage is their focus.

Once the images were all in position it was time for the main text to be put into place. Using a custom font called "agent orange" which gives the poster a more comedic feel the main title was put in bold red letters at the top, this was followed by the tagline "whoever wins....gets the job" this parodies the tagline from Aliens vs Predator which was "whoever wins....we loose". After that I chose to parody Aliens vs Predator even more by using a font which looks remarakably similar to theirs called "AVP2" this was used to write the letters "AVN" (Alex vs Nathan) a parody of "AVP" (Aliens vs Predator).

The final pieces of text to be added in were done the defaul Ariel font to add a sense of seriousness back into the film and to allow it to be readable at a passing glance. Rather than have an entire cast, production and crew list at the bottom of the poster I chose to use just the names of the key stars in order to not draw too much attention to the poster at this early stage in development.

The Background was kept white to deliberatly use the comedic style which most posters use in this day as it means it draws attention to whats going on in the poster rather than what is happening around it.