Making of a Movie Poster April 5, 2010
Hello from Sandeep! Today, I would to like to share you the story behind a fake movie poster ‘Miasma’. The concept of this scary movie poster came across to me while I was shooting pictures of some abandoned area in a foggy morning with my Panasonic FZ-28. I was on vacation, on a visit to my relatives outside Delhi. It would be wrong to say that I only got scary images all around; some of pictures were really cool.
After seeing a perfect location, I immediately doodled a layout in my mind and clicked few pictures with help of my wife. “Are you crazy!! People like to see their faces in their snaps and you are just doing the opposite.” She said.
After coming back to home, I jumped to Photoshop. I had no idea about the size of a movie poster so, I googled some movie poster and created a new document of 717 x 1024px filled with black background.
Treatment with original image: As you can see the original image is colorful but it doesn’t suit to a horror movie so I Desaturated the image, adjusted the Levels, and changed the entire image to somewhere warm reddish yellow color with Hue/Saturation. Also, I saw some leafs coming over the backside of blazer making my subject a little messy with other object so I removed them also with the help of stamp tool.
Poster .psd: I dragged the main image in the newly created document and aligned my main subject a bit to right so that I can put the ghost element almost in the center of the document.
Right now everything is visible, to make the whole composition tight and focused I draw a big feathered circle with a dark yellow color….hmmm looks good. I added one more green color in the background areas making it more hazy.
I used a beautiful font LeviBrush for the heading and SF Movie Poster font for the credit text.
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