These first few steps consists of my transformation of the original photo to the more greyscale and cropped photo. Showing specific steps of how I used Photoshop to do this.

Here I decided the left side of the face showed more emotion related to the character itself

Here I began to change the background to suit the greyscale portrait alongside the aura the poster should give towards the audience. The dark grey bg makes the character pop out more.

Next I start to experiment the word to make the poster more character based and see which phrase suited best with the image and the film genre.

With font drafting with the whole group, the signature font is ‘God of War’. In order to make it pop out more amongst the grey atmosphere, I added a glow and shadow.

I added the film title at the bottom with the character phrase at the top making it more of a subversion to usual character based film posters.

I added an iconography of the genre within the eyeballs. This is to add more of an effect towards the poster to tell the audience a hint on the genre.

To make the poster more interesting, I added the latin version of the “our father” as another hint or iconography of the theme of the film.

I ensure to make the opacity low so that it does not disrupt the characters image but it subtly still visible.

I changed ‘Sinner’ into a different colour from the movie title so that it isn’t confused with what is the title or not. The yellow helps guide the eyes of the audience to see it first ( due to the bold colour yellow) then towards the eyes then the title. This creates the psychological effect of memory known as the ‘recency effect’ usually also used in trailers. The latin our father is also spread amongst the whole of the poster in order to add more depth the to grey background.

The slogan of the film Is added alongside the date.

The credits block and logos are added for the finished touch of a professional movie poster.