The Making of Our

Poster

Misconception

Step 1: Creating the first half

of the image

1) Firstly, we opened the image of the character looking away from the mirror with a happy

facial expression. We then cropped the reflection half out and saved it.

Step 2: Creating the second

half of the image

2) Secondly, we opened Adobe Bridge and selected “pictures”. We then held down

the shift key and selected the full photo of the character looking into the mirror with

an evil- looking facial expression and the recently cropped image of the happier-

looking character.

Step 2- Inserting the second

half of the imageWe then selected tools>Photoshop>load files to open both images in Photoshop.

This enabled both the cropped happier-looking image and the whole image of the

evil-looking character to open in a single Photoshop document.

Then, we put the cropped image layer on top of the

whole image layer. Then, we expanded the images and

lined them up. This made the image whole and created

the illusion that the reflection of the mirror didn't’t match

reality

Step 3- Polishing off the

image

We then used the

spot healing brush

tool to airbrush the

image and make the

character’s face look

flawless. This reflects

on the appearance

pressures involved in

dance

Next, we zoomed

into the line where

both images met and

used the eraser,

smudge and blur

tools to make the

images align

correctly

Step 4: Editing

We then selected the

adjustments tab and

lowered the red tints

and heightened the

levels of blue. This

was to make the

image colder and hint

more to the dark

thriller genre of the

film

Step 5: Adding the title

We were trying to

experiment with different

places we could position

the title. Therefore we

started to research more

into other landscape

posters within our

chosen genre to gain

some ideas. We were

inspired by the use of a

border in this poster from

the short thriller film “Tell-

Tale”

However, as the

border should take up

roughly a third of the

page, when we put

the border in place

we felt as if it took up

too much room in our

particular image and

didn't’t compliment

the photo very well

Step 5: Adding the title

We then found many

posters from our chosen

genre and subgenre with

a similar image layout to

ours, landscape with two

people/faces at either

end of the frame, that

positioned the title in

between both

characters. However,

although we considered

this option, we thought

our title, “Misconception”

was too long to fit in

between both people.

Step 5: Adding the title

We also noticed many

films from our genre

and subgenre, with a

landscape frame and

similar main image

layout to ours, which

positioned their main

title at the bottom of

the page. We thought

this may be effective

on our poster as it

wouldn’t overshadow

and take away from

the creepy effect of our

main image

Step 5: Adding the title

1) Therefore,

we then saved

our main image,

in Photoshop,

and opened it in

illustrator where

we had made

out main title

2) We then copy and pasted

our main title, positioning it at

the bottom of the page

Step 6- Polishing off the title

The silhouette of the ballerina we used for the letter “I”

still had white marks around it from were we had erased it

too lightly

Step 6- Polishing off the title

For the white corner section near the ballerina’s head we simply used

the spot eraser tool to cover it up

Step 6- Polishing off the title

Before- There were white smears

surrounding the silhouette which

looked untidy and messy

After- We used the quick selection tool

to select the area under the ballerina’s

arm. We then used the colour sample

tool and clicked on an area of skin.

Then we used the paint bucket tool to

fill in the selected area in the realistic

colour taken from the colour sample.

We then used tool such as the blur and

smudge tool to blend in the colour of the

selected area so that it looked more

credible

Step 7- Adding on other

conventional features

Actors names

We then followed our poster layout plan, using it as a template when adding the

following features:

Tagline

Billboard and website nameRelease Date

Review