I am extremely pleased with how the poster came out overall. It is practically how I wanted it to look. I decided that I wanted to use this image as it doesn’t show anything about the film. However it gives some sort of idea for the audience what will be included. The female gives a sense of who will be in the film, this suggests that she is the main character. The female is highlighted by the light drawn to her to make her the main focus.

The first thing I did when creating this poster was to add the main character ‘Mary’ as the background filling 2/3rds of the page. I decided to make her more transparent but only enough so the text on the page is bold, this will entice the audience. I have also removed the background, I will insert the original picture below so you can see what has been changed yourself, but the back ground is completely gone, Mary is the main focus which I am extremely satisfied with as the curtains we used have disappeared giving the look of her creeping out of a crack.

The image above is the original before I edited it.

The next step was to add the film title ‘Our Little Secret’. I played around with the title several of times, I moved it to the top of the page, to the bottom, in the centre I then tried out different fonts but then I found a much more original font which was ‘Tranjan Pro Font’. I wanted to go for the horror look so therefore I chose this font and added the mirror effect to reflect off the moon. As you can see the film masthead has been also lightened by adding a more transparent look. I believe this font works well with the masthead and poster as it creates the horror/dark theme. It was hard to create but when I played around with it I got the hang of it.

I used separate text layers to add the rest of the text such as ‘the secret is out’ and the credits etc. The layers added were separate colours for example the tagline ‘our secret is out’ is all separate words and have been made to have the same font for continuity but different colours to match the rating by The Guardian and the Logo of Ancient Moon Productions. I believe the audience will see the link. I placed the actors names above the release date with the font being white as it stands our but doesn’t draw too much attention whilst having the same font for all the stars names, so for the names I used the same font as the rest of the text on the poster.

Finally I added the little things onto the poster such as the production company’s logo and the age rating which is targeted towards 15 year olds. This is a vital part of any poster as the audience must know who the film is targeted at so they can see the film. I decided to add a 15 rating on their as it was most realistic plus it was rated by the British Board of Film Classification – BBFC. The writing for the release date is in the same font yet again more continuity however the size is much bigger than the credits, I aimed for it to stand out more. This information is vital because whoever views this poster will know when the film is going to be released. However I never put the full date on I only added the month and the year as we were still under construction with the film itself.