My movie Poster: Virus

This was an activity that we had to do on picking a random page from Wikipedia and whatever comes up will becoming our title of the film. Than we had to go on a website to find a random quote and find a picture from Flicker to make it our background of our poster. All of this has to be linked together, so that you can identify the genre by just looking at the poster by just picking out random images and quotes.

As you can see my random page from Wikipedia was about 'Virus'. But in fact it is the title of an album by the metal rock band Heavenly. But you don't know that do you?! So my quote that I had to choose from a website that displayed random quotes was this, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that don't matter". This quote was said by Martin Luther King Jr. so it was very inspirational, but I don't believe it's inspirational based on a horror kind of film though! The next thing that I randomly choose was my image of this grey, dark empty street with a little red car driving in a storm. This suited well with my random quote and title of my film because 'Virus' sounds like something from the genre of a horror or a thriller, and I thought that this image really blended well with what my title and quotation.

Now that I have all my random things together I have the privilege to put all of these images and quotations together to form a poster that I have no idea what it's about, but I guess that's the beauty of this activity. You don't know anything about it and your making a poster that comes from random things.

We have to go on photoshop and design our poster from just the random image for the background. Now that I had done that I had to choose what colour styles that I want. I just keep to the different colours of red because I represent my poster as a horror genre and mostly on horror genre film posters there are dark colour and reddish colours that represent the theme of horror and or blood, as red is suppose to symbolise it. Once I had my colour style, I had to think about what other things does a movie poster have on. So I thought and I look at the poster of The Lovely Bones and I noticed that it had the actors, the directors, the screenplay writers, the author of the book; which is actually based on a book, the month that it is coming out and the production company's that The Lovely Bones is produced by. When I designed all of these things I had to make sure that it was capable to read, so I had to change different colours so that it would blended in with the background because overall the background is pretty dark with the clouds and such.
Finally the final touch. I had to crop it because when I just saved most things were blurry and it wasn't clear. So I had to crop it and cut around the poster so that I wouldn't have the background shot in. Saved the actual poster and posted it up on my blog so that I can get a mark.

I believe doing this activity was very fun and exciting to do, because as I said the activity was basically 'random' and everyone was doing something different, which was very much interesting in the view of my fellow class members. It also got us think more about posters and how it shows us what genre it is by the colours, the images and the settings. It gives me a lot of thought about how my poster is going to be like for my film.