Film Poster Editing Process

After my photo shoot for images for my film poster, I decided on the final image that I wanted to use. There was quite a bit of editing that I wanted to do on it to make it look more professional and so I began to do this in photoshop. Firstly, I removed any blemishes on Ellie's skin using the spot healing tool. This took most, if not all of the imperfections on her skin away.  After this, I also edited the exposure (image>adjustments>exposure...), the curves of the image (image>adjustments> curves...) and brightness and contrast (image>adjustments>brightness/contrast). this made the overall image a lot darker and more shaded. I did this as it created more of a mysterious feel and capture the unknown horror of this genre.

Original Image                                       With Blemishes                          After Editing

Also I wanted the focus in the image to be on Ellie's eye as for my next stage I added an important component of the trailer as a reflection in her eye.

Also I wanted the focus in the image to be on Ellie's eye as for my next stage I added an important component of the trailer as a reflection in her eye.
One scene of our trailer that keeps the audience in the dark and makes them question what has happened is a series of frames of a lifeless looking hand dripping with blood. As this is an important scene for our trailer I wanted to include it some way and so added this into Ellie's eye in the image. To this I placed the bloody hand image from my photo shoot over the image of Ellie. I then sized the image by dragging in the corners, so that it fit over her pupil and iris.

Obviously, as you can see from the image above, this does not look realistic and is still a squared image over the eye. The next step was to shape the image to the shape of the eye and so I took the eraser tool and began t shape the edges into and almond shape to fit the eye. Then, to make it look more like an authentic reflection, I adjusted the blending options of the photograph to 'Screen' which gave a slight transparency so that you could still see the iris through the image. This was the result;

Overall I am really pleased with how this worked out as when it was originally just a thought, I wasn't sure wether I would be able to make it look authentic enough but I really like the overall effect that it gave. It keeps the audience guessing what has happened with the hand dripping in blood, and might entice them to go and see the film, if it was actually to be made, to find the answers. To the left is the original image and to the right is the final image for the base of my film poster before the next stages of putting it together.