Trailer Poster: Cutting Out Feature Picture

I started by uploading my image to my Photoshop document. 

The next step that I needed to do was cut out the background of my picture, so that it would fit nicely onto my poster background. To do this, I had to select the "Magic Eraser Tool". 

    

After I had roughly cut out the background of the picture. I was left with the picture of my main characters on the plain background of my poster. However, some of the edges of my picture were rather rigid and untidy, so I decided to tidy them up.

This is when I zoomed in on certain points on my picture and used the "Eraser Tool" to go over any uneven parts. 

This is what it looked like when i zoomed in. As you can see around the hairline, there is still a little bit of the background that I originally cut out, so I used the Eraser Tool to go around the whole of the picture and make the edges smooth. 

Trailer Poster: Feature Picture

Shooting Poster Feature Picture

I decided for the picture on the front of my poster, I wanted Grace and Jake (the couple that fall in love) to be starring. Although I hadn't yet taken my picture, I knew exactly how I wanted it done. I wanted Jake and Grace to be cuddling, with Grace resting on Jakes chest with her eyes closed, whilst Jake's chin was resting on Grace's head looking upwards.
Once I had taken the picture, I was very happy with how it had turned out and it was exactly what I wanted it to look like.

Trailer Poster: Feature Picture

Feature Picture Lighting

Now that I have decided on the background of my poster, and there is a stream of light coming down from the left hand side, I have more of an idea of how I am going to place my actors when I take the picture. I have also planned to have a bright light shining on them from the left hand side, so that my picture with blend with the background, which will give it more effect.

Trailer Poster: Editing Background

The first step I had to do when creating my background and making it fit my poster was to upload it. Once I had uploaded it, it uploaded as a very small picture behind the headline. 

I then dragged my picture and made it adapt nicely to the background of my poster. 

I then decided that the blue sky background looked to plain on its own, so wanted to blend something else in with it. I thought that stars would look effective and link nicely with the genre, so I uploaded a star 
background over the top of the blue sky background.

I then changed the opacity of the star background to 40%. This way it started to blend with the blue sky background.

This was my end result.

Trailer Poster: Background

Black background with bright stars.

Bright blue sky with big sun.

Autumn Leaves.

Trailer Poster: Creating Headline

After trialing all of the fonts out on the magazine template, I decided to go with "Saginaw".
I decided to go with this font due to it fitting well with the genre and also it was "handwritten" like which is what I was intending to use.

I began by selecting the "Saginaw" font.

I then made it the correct font size to fit correctly onto my poster.

Trailer Poster: Headline

Designing Headline
I began starting planning ideas for my magazine poster and started off with testing all different fonts for my headline "Grace". Whilst going through all of the fonts on the programme, these were the ones I decided I liked the most and I think would fit nicely with the genre and theme of my poster and trailer. Now that I have narrowed it down to these, I am going to create my poster and try out all of these fonts to see which one looks the best, when fitted with the picture and background also.