Movie Poster

For my movie poster, I decided to recreate the thriller movie Gone Girl.

Before/After:

This is the original movie poster of gone girl. I did not completely remake it, however this poster definitely helped give me an idea of what/how I wanted to make my movie poster. 

Below is my movie poster that I ended up recreating.

What I did to achieve this:

I used a dark twisty background of a forest since this movie is a thriller and I believe this was the right atmosphere. I photoshopped a shadow of a woman walking away to emphasize the fact that she is gone, and by doing so I used the quick selection tool to get rid of the background of the shadow of the woman. I then used the command T to drag her down and make her a proper size which would fit the scene properly. I added the movie credit text at the top because I felt like it looked better at the top rather than the bottom. I felt like if it was placed at the bottom it would ruin the overall poster by blocking the road. I used a scary kind of font for the movie title and added "stroke" and "inner glow" to the font because I wanted to be able to communicate a creepy feeling. I used the layers of vibrance and saturation to give the overall poster some color. I was also able to remove the blemishes using the spot healing brush and then following with the patch tool. 

Challenges:

I definitely found this challenging since I started this with only a black background of a dark forest. I wanted to try my hardest to make this movie poster look as real as possible. I believe the end results of my movie poster have shown my improvement in this photoshop class. I believe that I achieved what I had wanted to accomplish to some extent, but I feel that there is always room for improvement.

Stay tuned for more coming soon! Thank you for reading my blog!

- Tara x