Film Poster Reconstruction:

In order to get a sense of what it's like to create a film poster, i have decided to re-create an existing movie poster using Adobe Photoshop. Below is the poster i have chose to reconstruct, which is from the film 'Carrie' which i have previously de-constructed.

1)   To begin with, i first selected a black background using the fill tool, and started to outline the basic shape of the girl shown on the poster using the pen tool, before filling the path with the color white. I layered this over the black background.

2) On a new layer, i then began to use the pen & fill tool again to draw out the shape of blood dripping down from the top of her head to the middle of her body. 

3) Next i added the text 'Carrie' in the font Impact and used the transform and warp tools to create this 'wave' shape. I also drew out a hand with the pen tool and filled it in with the colour black. I have made sure that the blood dripped into the letter 'A' in 'Carrie' in order to match the original poster.

4) I next added more text in the font impact that reads "If you've got a taste for terror...Take carrie to the prom", and have placed it in a new layer in the same position as the original poster.  

5) For this step i merged the dripping blood layer and the white body layer together, and have used the magnetic lasso tool to select various sections of her body. After selecting each segment, i held down the Ctrl button in order to drag it away from the layer, in order to create this shattered effect. 

6) Next i added text to display the names of the actors and producers at the bottom of the page. I have also used various types of paint brush tools in order to create the effect of blood splatters throughout the image. 

7) After a sufficient amount of blood splatters were added, i used the pen and fill tool to add grey shapes on the black background, in order to imitate the original poster. I have also used the brush tool to add a layer of blood along the very bottom of the poster.

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This is my final product for my second re-construction task (the one on the left). Overall i am very pleased with it, as it looks very similar to the original poster, which is displayed to the right of it. By doing this i have now had experience of what it's like to create a movie poster, as well as being able to get used to all the conventions that a movie poster contains.