Poster Drafts

 These are our poster drafts. Although the image of the white chess is not our own, we will be taking a picture of our own piece. This is just so that we can see what it looks like and if the effect what we want works, which I think it does. We did look at the picture without the chess, but I thought that with out it, it takes away the importance of the chess, which also links in with our title "Checkmate". To begin with I edited the image on photo shop to make her skin look more smooth and also to sharpen her eyes and lips. However, once we started putting the poster together on Power Point,

we started to play about with the "recolour" tool. These are the colours we liked the most, and I think I prefer the poster in black and white to in colour as it makes the writing of the title stand out, and it also creates more of an atmosphere to the poster. The one that I think I prefer is the last poster draft as I think that the contrast works to create more sincerity and makes Megan look more scary, as if the audience are meant to fear her. After taking lots of photographs, we decided that this was the best image to use because Megan is crying, which gives

the audience a clue as to what the film is going to be like, and also she is looking into the camera, which communicates with the audience, which should hopefully encourage people the watch the film. We are going to produce the final poster on photo shop so that we can create more of a shadow over her face, and also so that we can edit our own image of the chess onto the poster. The billing block took a while as each name had to be in individual text boxes to make moving them around more easy. We also looked at real billing blocks and realised that we needed to put the logos from the companies involved with the production along the bottom. We then had to find these images on the internet and make sure that they were slightly transparent, along with the rest of the text, so that the billing block doesn't distract from the actual poster, as the text is in red. The date is not in red because otherwise it would blend in too much with the billing block, and it wouldn't stand out.