Making of the poster

I made the poster in Adobe Photoshop as I had easy access to it at home. In our designs, our favourite idea was a handprint of blood on a window with our character in the background. We adapted this idea to have the handprint with our character merged into the palm of it. We used photos that we took when we were filming she looked similar to our footage.

The original photos:

In photoshop, i had to make the poster in 'layers' meaning putting photos/ backgrounds/text on top of one another. I started by having the background layer which was just a plain background which i filled in black using the fill toolbar at the side of the program. I then added the second layer which was the photo of the handprint and selected the handprint using the magic wand tool. This meant i could select the handprint and have it on a completely black background. After using effects such as the 'blur' tool, 'colour balance' and much more which are available on photoshop, i was able to make the hand print look very red and distorted to give it a scary horror look.

I then had to put in another layer which was our characters face and the idea was to merge it into the palm of the hand. After editing her face to make it a bit brighter and clearer making her eyes stand out, using the tools such as the 'overlay' I was able to dissolve her face into the palm of the blood hand print.
To make the poster look a bit more edgy, i downloaded a texture from the internet which i could have as another layer in photoshop on top of the palm to create a grainy effect over our characters face.

I then added the title and text in which i could choose the font for and the colour. We chose the title as red as it has horror connotations and represents blood and the white text stands out against the black background.