B movie poster

Using all the tools and techniques we'd learnt from the workshop we were asked to create a poster for a B movie film, and given a title to base it on.  We were given a limited choice of photographs, meaning that we had to think carefully about how we used and combined them.  My partner and I chose a photograph of a deserted island for our background to represent the land where Professor Spinebender takes his captured humans and changed the colours, focusing mainly on the sky, in order to add a higher contrast to the yellow.  We used red for the text as it stood out well against the yellow of the sky, but also because these are two colours which we found were typically used on B movie posters, as well as the plain, block type text.  We combined the head of a dog with a human body and placed the layer behind the body as the arm is in front of it.  Doing this made it look more realistic as though they were connected.  We then did the same with the tigers head but also added an arm to make the fact that they had been genetically engineered even more prominent.  Using the artistic filter 'Poster Edges' we gave the background and genetically engineered creatures a more cartoon appearance as though they had been hand drawn like the real B movie posters.  I feel that, using the techniques we were taught, we were able to successfully create an professional and effective looking poster.