Lesson 17: FILM POSTER
BIG IDEA - How can you use the Photoshop skills you have developed to closely recreate an existing film poster? How do careful choices in composition, colour, lighting, and typography affect how successfully your final image mirrors the original design?
PART 1: RESEARCH
The first step of any project is to take a look at a variety of inspirational images. We can record this first stage of our research by creating a mood board/slideshow.
1. Decide how you want to create your slideshow (Google Docs? Canva? Google Slides?)
Include at least 10 movie posters. Soon, you will pick one to mimic (so make sure you have some on there that you would be able to replicate). The ones below are all from the Horror genre, but you could do any movie poster.
2. For each movie poster, write 1 or 2 sentences explaining why this poster is effective. Think about the slides we went through in class; how did they use positioning/colour/lighting etc?
Presentation;
Part 2: PLANNING
The first stage of your homework is to plan a shoot, the photos from which you will edit to create your film poster recreation.
To complete this task successfully, you will need to pay close attention to the way in which film posters are constructed.
- Is there more than one photograph in the poster?
- Which editing techniques have been used to put the different elements together?
- What does the layout look like?
- What typography has been used?
Task:
Look again at your slideshow of film posters that you completed and choose one that you think will be sufficiently challenging for you to complete.
Create another page on your slideshow and call it "Recreation Photoshoot Plan". Make notes and add pictures to inspire you. You may use the sentence starters/sheets below if needed:
• I will do the photoshoot…… (where and when) because…………..
• The props I will need for this shoot are……….
• The techniques I will use are……………. because…………..
• The lighting will come from………… which will give me a mood of………..
• My plans link to the film poster I have deconstructed because.........
Part 3: RECREATION
Complete one shoot where you take multiple photographs which you will later edit to recreate your film poster. Decide if and when you will need to use the studio.
Consider how you will edit your poster together - do you need a few photos of the people in your poster, a few of any props you might need and a few of the background which you will then edit together?
Also think about lighting, (time of day if using natural lighting) angles, the overall composition of your images, your choice of model, costume, props and background.
Use what you have learned Photoshop to edit your photo. Remember how to add colour (in the Statue of Liberty assignment) and how to shrink/move objects (in the Slinkachu assignment). If you need to do somethign you have not learned yet, feel free to explore YouTube tutorials (there are a million tutorials on how to do cool things on Photoshop!)
Assignment adapted from Ms. T's Photography on Weebly