Poster design 2

Shot of someone moving on in 'Being Human'

As I did not have access to Photoshop at home and did not know how to achieve the look for my poster I wanted, through the college computers I decided that designing my own poster completely would be a good option. I chose to create an image of the protagonist (Ivy) stood in a doorway that was glowing with light. I did this because of the connotations and links with passing and moving on to the other side. I also chose to use a lot of bright colours to mirror the style of lighting we used within our film whenever Ivy was having a 'nightmare'. I chose the silouhette shot as my basis because I felt it was a very iconic and recognisable within the film, I also felt that having the girl stood in the centre of the image, facing the light was a way to hint that she would face death. The idea of the door was actually took from the series 'Being Human' where when a character dies and is ready to move on, a door appears that shines a bright light through. They would then proceed to go through the door. I felt that by doing this it would also misleed the intended audience a bit, so that when they came to watch the film they wouldn't have everything already figured out.
After drawing out the concept for the poster, I painted it using water colours and then scanned it into my computer. Then in photoshop adjusted the hue and saturation as well as other small adjustments needed. I am quite pleased with the final design and because of the limitations I had, I think it turned out better than expected.