Develpment of your film poster and magazine with use of photography and photoshop

We as a group decided not to use still from our trailer as images for the film poster and magazine front cover, so were put together a photo shoot using a high quality digital camera and spot lights. We ask Holly (from the other media group to be our model for the shoot as she was one of the characters in the film). We took many shots with Holly in many different poses, but wanted our audience to be able to see Holly’s characteristics but not too much. We also decided we wanted Holly to be holding a gun in every photo to take away any ideas or connotations that women are dangerous and are inferior when it comes to intimidation and threatening behaviour.
For our film poster we chose to use this photo, as it shows Holly’s character as being in a powerful position. It is also a good action shot because even though you can’t see who she is aiming the gun at, you can tell from the expression on her face and her body language that she isn’t messing around and means business. After deciding on using this image we then had to upload it to Photoshop in order to remove the background and tidy up the edges of the image. We did this by using the magic eraser tool as both joy and I found this the easiest tool to use, as we didn’t have much experience using this programme.



We decided on a different image for the magazine front cover, as we thought this image was still intimidating and threatening, but also shows Holly as being relaxed, calm, cool and in control. By having her in this pose it also gives off an attitude to the audience that murder, theft, intimidation and deceit don’t seem to have any effect on her conscience and therefore portray her character as strong and forceful. We also used Photoshop to remove the background and tidy up the image, however due to the fact we had our photo shoot inside a building, the character’s cigarette in her mouth isn’t lit. Our group though wanted the image to have a smoke effect coming out of the cigarette, however since we didn’t have that effect at our disposal we had to take a picture of a lit cigarette and import that into Photoshop. Once we did that we used the magic wand tool to remove the background in and around the smoke and then copy and pasted it on to the image of Holly with the cigarette.