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POSTER

This was a mini test that I created on Photoshop to see whether my idea will look effective for our poster.

Creating a Slender Man silhouette 

Step 1:

Firstly, I chose an image of Slender Man from Google, which i will cut out on Photoshop.

Step 2:

Using the lasso tool on Photoshop, I carefully cut around the image.

Step 3:

I them pasted the cut out image onto a new layer on top of the eye-pupil.

I thought that the contrast of the black silhouette against the white light from the eye-pupil would look great, because the simple details are always useful. However, I didn't quite like the outcome, as it didn't work well with the rest of the poster, and was too small to notice.  

MAGAZINE COVER
Adding a bloodshot on eye. This was another experiment that I tried out to see if it looked effective.

Step 1: I searched 'eye bloodshot' on Google so that I could insert it on the final girl's eye.

Step 2: Using the lasso tool on Photoshop, I cut around the bloodshot and pasted it onto the final girl's eye.

Step 3: I then used the smudge tool to smudge the edges of the bloodshot, so that the sharp cuts are not visible, and to also make it look more realistic.

Step 4: Adding a black and white filter on the whole image helped the red bloodshot to stand out. It also looked quite frightening and horror-like, while matching our colour scheme of black, white and red.




 ...CHANGING MAGAZINE COVER IMAGE

At first, we decided that the image on our magazine cover would be shown in role of her character, as she is the main victim and looks frightened. However, after researching conventions of Total Film magazine covers, we noticed that the main character on the covers are never displayed like this, which is why we changed our final image.
Therefore, instead of subverting this convention, we decided that we would conform to it.

After alterations and playing around with the conventions, this is how our magazine cover looks. We added the cover lines, button and the film name.
As a group, we think that this image looks more prefessional as it conforms to the conventions of Total Film magazine covers.

Update on poster and magazine cover

Poster

From our initial ideas, we used and  developed the conventions that were visible from 'The Skeleton Key' poster which is an extreme close-up shot of the eye.

The image of the eye captures fear and mystery, which can relate to the concept of Slender Man as he is based on a mysterious urban legend. 

Similar to 'The Skeleton Key' poster, Karwin captured this extreme close up image of the final girl's eye.

Here is how our poster and magazine cover looks so far. Using Photoshop, I increased the contrast levels and decreased the brightness, this made the eye pupil and mascara, look striking and stand out. We also added a green filter over the whole layer. The green filter follows through from a clip in our trailer which is a cctv affect; it also adds a sci-fi affect too.
We decided to place the Slender Man logo on top of the eye-pupil as this symbol represents Slender Man, and so the audience may assume that the film is based on Slender Man.

This is how our poster and magazine looks so far.There are many features that still need to be added to them both. From looking at them side to side, it is clear to see that the colour scheme is black, white and red, which are all bold and strong colours that relate to the horror genre (gore/darkness/purity).

Slender Man logo

Here is how the magazine cover looks, we thought that the Slender Man Logo looks rather plain (because it is white) and doesn't stand out as it should do, because the girl's cardigan is white too.

We used the paintbrush tool to coloour

Sharpening the eyes

This shows how I sharpened the eyes on Photoshop. It was a simple process where I selected around the eye pupil using the shape-tool and clicked on filter and sharpen.

I found that this sharpened around the edges of the pupil, which instantly made it stand out and look more frightnening. 

This is a before and after of the eyes. As you can see, the eye puipl in the second image looks more refined.