Editing Poster 2 Task:9

This is my editing process for my second Poster.  I have chosen the Dark blue gradient for the background as it relates to the Thriller/ Crime genre we are aiming for with the dark colour. However I have subverted from the typical black as I found that fairly boring and not as punchy and attractive to the audience.Common conventions of a thriller short film poster use predominantly dark, secondary colours to advertise themselves to a specific audience.

I felt as though the gradient of the dark blue to black gave a mysterious note and style that would convey the genre of film to the audience. In addition I have used the birds eye view to convey the coffee table in our film. Although the layout is not in the exact perspective things such as the cocaine appear as they are on a surface and have been cut into the shape of ' White Lies'.

As shown in this image I have taken a knife and cut it out of a razor blade. Although the razor blade doesn't have much significance with the film, my idea was to link the audience to the genre of the film and with the implementation of these two tools suggest a crime genre. 

For the knife this is a simple photo that I have taken of one of my kitchen knifes. From here I have just selected the outline of the shape. Then I have cut out the shape from the razor blade. As for the blade I have done the same but instead of cutting out the blade I have outlined it and put a grey gradient to reduce the reflection. 

The knife is the key part to the poster as it is a major part in the film from the cocaine, to cutting the protagonists finger and even the stabbing in the final shot. Overall I am very happy with the implementation of the knife and believe it appears very much like a key part of the film to the audience and connotes a theme or genre. 

As for the surrounding font I have used the Helvetica font as it is fairly simple and matches the poster well with less impact on it. As for the Title font I have used a downloadable Cocaine/Powder font as it appears very much like cocaine and takes another key aspect of our film into the poster which I wanted. Finally for the credit font, I have also downloaded the font offline because it was a specialist font that is typically used in many film posters. This was a good choice of mine as it finished the poster of well and If I had chosen any other font it would have been less professional and would appear more student made as such.