We have begun working on our final Media Studies Video project and have nearly finished the script. The Group that I will be working with includes Afia, Saad and myself. We have decided to do a slasher/thriller film for our opening titles. We came up with the story in class and so far have come up with the location, the props and the setting of the story. The story is about a man taking revenge from another man for something that the second man had done. The story will not really matter too much as the opening titles will just require a few shots and the name of the film. We still need to figure out what kind of lighting effect we want to go for and how we will achieve it and our script still needs to be finalized and as soon as that is done we will begin shooting our film. In the meantime, we were given a task to make a poster for our preliminary film. Unfortunately our prelim was not that good and there were no photographs taken during the shoot. Therefore my group decided to make a poster of our upcoming film which for now has the working title "Sweet Vengeance". I have attached the poster to this post.
I had viewed posters of some of Hollywood's Thriller/slasher films, like "I Know what You Did Last Summer", and the posters of such films had pictures from certain scenes merged and positioned in an attractive way. The posters had dark colors (mostly black) and they depicted the thriller effect of the film in the poster. The textures that I used in my poster were given to me by our Media Practical teacher. The teacher had sent us the background textures via email to help us use them in an exercise in class using Photoshop. I had used the textures in the class and the teacher taught us how to blend the textures together to make them merge and make an attractive background. At first when I was making my poster, I decided to use really dark colors, but then the idea did not seem to work out as I was unable to figure out how to blend the text with the color black, therefore I tried blending old paper texture with another texture that I had, and so the color seemed fine. Then I added the text. I thought of writing the word "Sweet" in italics because I wanted to have the effect of a love story or a relationship, and just to make the word seem like it is i.e. "Sweet". I added a rose at the end of the word "Sweet" to enhance the effect. I took the image from the site, "clicker.com" as the images there were not right protected.
The word "Vengeance" is written in a crooked font and this is because I wanted to depict the feeling of killing and torture, which is also the reason why I chose red as the color for the font of "Vengeance". To give it a more creepy look, I added a line under it, depicting that it has been made by someone's blood.
I darkened all four sides of the poster with dark brown to highlight the center of the poster i.e. where the title is. I also added the same red color at the inside if the poster where the dark brown color ends, with a slashing effect to make it look creepy.
I added a few sentences before the title to give a little information about the poster and to make the title sensible and understandable for the person who sees it.
One thing that I forgot was to add the label or logo of the institution that I had made the film for. I have also not used any photographs as it is a poster of a film that is yet to be made. There may be some changes in the future regarding the script, however, we tend to stick to the same theme and idea for our final project.
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