I chose the theme of movie poster because to me it seemed more eye catching and easier to do. I tried to make up a movie but had no luck with the amount of time I had and the ideas I wanted to convey so I picked two movies that were already out there. The first one was Black Swan and surprisingly it had a couple posters made for it already that weren't the original movie poster design. I had a hard time making sure I didn't copy them, but I believe I did a pretty good job. The second one was Spiderman because I thought I could do something cool with a spiderweb in it and I think it turned out pretty good as well.
The main tool I used for these two posters was the masking tool. At first I planned on making everything from scratch with the shape and pen tools but decided that would take to long and since I'm kind of an OCD freak I wouldn't have it finished in time for the due date so I decided to mask the main characters front he movies and then put a solid color overlay on them. The Spiderman one I did all gradient overlays and the Black Swan one I did all solid color overlays. It turned out pretty well except for the fact that I'm really OCD so I took a very long time making sure the edges were perfect with the picture. Doing the solid colors to me made it more dynamic and abstract. I didn't want to have any part of their faces or outfits showing but at least have the main outline so you still knew what it was.
One of the main compositional components I did was symmetry with a little abstract in the Black Swan poster. The dancers and the swan are all perfectly symmetrical with each other but to add the abstract I put in the red feathers in random descending order to show the sort of chaos I guess of the movie and the fact that their red as opposed to all the black and white and grey draws the audience's attention towards them and makes the poster pop a little more. The Spiderman poster was suppose to be sort of abstract but I sort of got a little lazy with the the placement of the figures and name. That was the poster I'm not the most proud of because I ran out of ideas in the amount of time I had for cool effects.
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