This was the initial design that I had for my poster as it fitted my target audience; middle aged men and women. My main aim was to show love. However, I think this looks very awkward and far to cramped. I really wanted the main focus to be the femme fatale but because I wanted her looking at detective Jack Chandler she was lost.
I then tried to reposition everyone and to get the femme fatale to sit down however I fount this made James Harold look more dominant. Although here I muc prefer the positioning of everyone as it is like they are in order. However there is nothing to suggest love between the detective and femme fatale. At this point I was starting to think that I would have to think of a new plan where love was still shown but there was no connection between the characters.
I tried to reposition the characters one more time but yet again I found that the focus was on James Harold and not on the femme fatale. Here she is really not dominant like she should be. However I do like the fact she is holding Jame's hand. I found it really hard to show the confussing love triangle that appears in the film.
I took these two back up shots so that if I needed to think of a new plan whilst editing I would have pictures of just the femme fatale this will help me make he look dominant. I also added the feather boa which I thought makes he look more sexy/seductive as the dress doesn't show any clevage.
I can also use all of these photos for my film review I particular think that the feather boa pictures would be appropriate.
Developing ideas
After studying all the photos I have decided that I really don't like the photos where all the characters are in holding hands and looking at each other. I think that they look very awkward and a bit confussing. I have therefore decided that I will use the second image of the femme fatale and hopefully using the other images cut out each character and place them so that the love triangle can still be seen. Luckily I am quite epxerienced with photoshop and this is something that I am able to do however, from past experience this process will take a while.
Edited images
As you can see I have edited all the characters together, I used the single photo of the femme fatale and then I was able to cut out each character from a photo with all the characters in, I have put it all on a black background as I think this is suited to the film noir/noe noir genre.
I have then editied this image on photoshop to adjust the tone, I think however this is a very dark image due to the image and would not stand out which is really essential. However, it has created some good lighting which is a typical film noir convention.
This is my favourite edit, I think it is really effective and will stand out well. The femme fatale is definantly the main focus and the red is a very common film noir convention. As well as this I think the feather boa adds a sexy/seductive side to the femme fatale. Although I did have to change my design I think that it has improved and still shows love effectivly so will still appeal to my target audience.
The next step to creating my poster is to add all the text. I did this using an online software as there are a lot more fonts avaliable. I needed to make sure my fonts suit the film and compliment the poster.
Final Poster
I am really happy with my final poster although it was more complicated than I expected to edit, I think that this is very effective. It fits my target audience and shows love which was my main aim. I have decided to put a dollar sign as the 's' in the title as I think it looks effective and adds another dimention to the poster.
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