Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Poster

One of the ancillary products I was required to make was a poster. Firstly, I needed to conduct some research and look at several posters and talk about the types e.g. teaser, billboard and what they generally contain e.g. credits, company logos etc. When I started to make the actual poster, I first had to make some rough drafts. I had two ideas - a teaser poster showing Slenderman standing in the woods all alone and a main poster based on the notes found in the game.

These first two drafts showed the poster ideas in their most simplistic way. It basically showed where the things in the poster went, simply saying what it is in a box.

 
These other two drafts were still the poster ideas, but this time drawn up, to see what they actually looked like. Obviously, on the first poster, it still says 'credits' where the credits would normally go. The reason for this is because I couldn't really be bothered to write out of the people's names and what they did, mostly because it would waste time.
 

This is the proper version of the poster, done on Microsoft Publisher. As you can see, it is based on the notes found in the game. What I did to do the tagline 'don't look...or it takes you' was that I used the 'scribble' selection on the shapes tool. I also did the same thing with the release date 'October 31'. The background was done using a texture already installed into Microsoft Office and the lines were just done using lines, split apart every 1.5 centimetres (or whatever it is). I also put in the Slender logo, which wasn't created by me, with the background removed and the BBFC rating (15) and what it contains.

I also made a variant of the poster, which wasn't really the intention. All I simply did was paste the original variant into Paint. But then, for the hell of it, I inverted the colours. I showed Adam what it looked like and he really liked it, saying that it looked it was written on a chalkboard. Everything is essentially the same, but the colours are just inverted, there have been no changes at all.

Friday, 16 November 2012

Credits font

As we all know, most film posters use practically the same font for their credits at the bottom. I think they might use this particular font so they can fit the credits at the bottom. The font I used for the poster credits is Steel Tongs.
 
 
There were a one font I did have look at called SF Movie Poster. I downloaded it at home and used it on my poster when at home, but it didn't actually look like Steel Tongs, so I didn't use it.