Poster Audience Feedback

Above is a video of the questions I asked people and the responses they gave me about my poster. I found this really useful, as it has given me some areas to improve on. I have now decided to go back and make the models lips more even and change the colour of the date at the bottom so that is is brighter. Aside from this, I was pleased to see that they thought my poster stood out and majority of them understood the meaning behind it. Even if some of them didn't understand the full meaning, they still got the concept that it was about plastic surgery and how someone looked.

Poster Production 2

Today I have swapped over the image which I orginially used for my poster (which came from the internet) for the one which I took myself and that belongs to me.

This is the process;

1. I made the image of Louise bigger and put her in the same place as the orignial model.

2. I altered the background so that is was black and white.

3. I got rid of any blemishes she had - including any flaws in her skin/freckles on her neck and darkened her skin tone.

4. I created some shadowing on her face and neck in order to make her features standout more.

5. I then made her lips larger and a paler shade and adapted her eyes by making them lighter and placing eye shadow on her eyelids.

6. Next I made the overall poster look brighter.

7. I drew the same 'plastic surgery lines' on her face and added text.

8. This is the second draft of my poster, now with the image of Louise instead of the Model;

Overall this process was very simple, due to the fact I already knew what was required because I had done exactly the same thing with the model I took from Google Images. Using an image that had already been taken for a first draft really helped me in creating my own primary image.

Original Image

To the left is the image I originally used when creating my poster. This is because I wanted to try out my poster with a professional looking image before taking an image of my own. Using this image enabled me to consider what kind of person I wanted to use for my own photo. I need someone quite natural looking and for them to have their shoulders bare in order to create a good effect. With the elements of this model, I think that my poster will be effective.

To the right is the image I took today of my sister, Louise. I didn't just use her just because she is my sister and therefore arguably an easy option, but because in my opinion she fits the brief of what I am looking for. I tried to recreate the look of the model I found on the internet by putting her hair away from her face and having her shoulders bare. Currently the image is considerably dark and there is a shadow behind her in the background, however this does not matter as it can be corrected easily in Photoshop.

Poster Production 1

Now that I have an idea for my poster, today I have started to create it. Here are the steps I took which lead me to the end product.

1. Firstly I opened up the Photoshop programme on my computer.

2. Secondly I searched for images on the internet which I thought would be appropriate to use. I was aware that the image for my final poster has to be original however I thought using one from the internet to start with would give me an idea of the type of primary image I wanted to take myself. I considered quite a few images but eventually it came down to between two which you can see below;

In the end, I ended up choosing the image situated on the left due to the fact it was better quality and did not appear blurred when made into a larger size.

3. Next, I tried putting the image in various places on the A4 document to see were it was best to be placed. Eventually I found a position which I thought was effective.

4. I then began editing the ladies face. I did this by putting platic surgery markings on her face, by making  her lips fuller with a very light pink colour which made them look unnatural and by editing her eyes so they were a different colour, which again made her features look unnatural. Obviously beause she was already photoshopped by professionals, I didn't have to make any changes to  her skin as she did not have any prominant blemishes.

5. After this I decided to create the background for the poster. This is where my idea changed slightly. One of my friends is an Art Multi Media student and i'd recently seen him use a certain technique for his work which I decided would be good to use for my poster. The technique is simple and costs next to nothing to do, plus is not very time consuming. It involves cutting out text from a newspaper, wripping it up and sticking it down randomly on a piece of A4 paper. Then, I printed out a few main headlines about the topic which my Film is based on - Body image. It creates an affect that all the text is to do with the topic of body image, when actually only the 4 headlines are. I thought this was really good to use, as it demonstrates just how influential the media is when it comes to appearances. He is the prototype I created below;

I then scanned this into the computer, which enabled me to open it in Photoshop. I then situated the image behind the model and experimented with the colour of it. I decided to keep the colour black and white becaus this is typical of Newspaper text and I felt the contrast between the black and white text combined with the the models dark skin, pale lips and bright eyes really made the model stand out.

6. The only thing left to do now was the title/date of release. When I researched film posters I found a lof of the titles were at the bottom of the A4 paper, therefore I decided to follow this trademark idea. It also worked well for two reasons. One of these was as the background was the newspaper this was already filled with text, so having text on top of text looked odd and the public may've not been able to read the text clearly. Secondly, the bottom of the poster looked a bit bare, and her the woman had space for the title/date to be on her shoulders. This could act as a metaphore as though it is engraved on her skin. I decided to make the title of the film considerably bigger compared to the release date - something else which is often seen on film posters and I then experimented with different colours, to see which colours worked well with the design. Getting this right was quite difficult as the colours appeared differently in the programme compared to how they did once they'd been printed.

7. After compiling all these factors I then had a poster which I was happy with. Below is the end result of my first draft;

Inspiration

When I choose an individual to place on my poster I have decided to show just half of their face. This was because I read an article on The Daily Mail Online today entitled 'Are we hiding behind our make up? How nearly half of women admit to disliking their own bare faces.' This article contained the picture below;

I really loved the affect of showing just half her face, therefore this is what I have decided to do with my own poster.

Initial Poster Idea

Today I decided to come up with an idea for my Film Poster. My Documentary is based around body image, and essentially, how the Media influence the way we feel about our appearance. Having looked at Film posters online, I discovered that often they have very minimal writing - just the film title and date that it is due to be out. They have the ability to tell the public what the film is about through images, rather than writing. With this in mind, I decided to come up with a poster that conveyed the message of the Documentary, through pictures and to just have the title of my flilm 'The False Reality' and a date when it was going to be released.

Initial idea:
My first idea is to have a double page spread of a magazine in the background with lots of text. This would then show the audience that my film was about the Media. I have decided to have two images of girls situated within the magazine text with a mirror inbetween the two of them. One of whom is an unrealistic ideal of beauty - they have perfect skin, tall, thin, etc and another woman who represents what the average woman looks like - a size 10-12 including some flaws on her skin. This would represent the idea that the images that are shown in the media are not what people look like in real life. Having the titel present of 'The False Reality' would show the public that although this is how people are represented in the media, this is not how people really look.

Below is an inital plan/sketch of my first idea;

Photoshop Practice

Before starting to create my poster, my teacher got someone called 'James' to give the class a lesson in Photoshop as none of us had really used the programme before. We took an image of a very important figure within the Media 'Rupert Murdoch', separated his hands from the image and then took a picture of the earth and re-sized it so it collaborated and fit in his hands correctly, before placing the hands back in the image. This enabled me to learn how to use basic skills within photoshop, such as how to change the size of a picture and how to crop certain elements out of a picture that are unwanted. This has made me feel more confident about creating a poster for my film now that I have a basic idea of how to use the programme.