Production - Final Poster

The first step of making my main poster was to brainstorm ideas. We struggled to find an idea at first but then the idea of two faces split between one came as an idea, as the film narrative has got the religious possession element to it. The idea also was influenced by the character 'two face' from the Batman franchise. An image of the character is shown below from the recent movie 'The Dark Knight'.

We used the idea and adapted this into our own, because obviously we didn't want the burnt effect, but more of a demonic and gothic effect. We took a close up picture of one of our actresses and then started to create the given effect.

I started off by splitting the face completely in half. I then made a base layer which was the original image, then two layer copies - one of the left side and the right. I then put effects, gradients, different layer properties and effects to generate the desired effect below. I also used my knowledge of photoshop to enhance the light side of the face with more of a "tanned" look and made the colour of the given models eye and lipstick more feminine to give that connotation of vulnerability.

After we had the base image done I needed to add the text. I chose a font which was quite straight and had calligraphy properties to it, but not so much it made it look to old fashioned. I decided to keep the symmetry to the image to make it more aesthetically pleasing to audiences who were gonna see the poster. We researched current film posters and noticed that the whole text at the bottom of the posters regarding the information to the film, including its actors, actresses and crew were all in capitals. The only difference was that the names were a bigger font than the titles. We adopted this in our own poster due to this, to follow conventions and give our poster that authentic look we are trying to achieve.

This is the finished product, our font for "Satan Spawn" was a custom font made which was called horristical. We felt that it blended well into the gothic element and dark connotations our poster was portraying. Again you can see we used the symmetry to make it aesthetically pleasing and divided the "Winter 2011" with the colours according to the main title "Satan Spawn". We played around with various editions of the poster and felt that it worked best with the symmetry implemented, and thus used this version.