15/03/2010 - 19/03/2010

This week I have taken some photos to use as my main image on the poster I am creating for the film. I used a camera with a fish-eye lense to create a surreal effect on the picture that I was taking. This technology was new to be as I have never used that type of lense before. However, it is the same as using a camera with a normal lense, it is just the outcome that is different.This enabled me to become more creative and do something different to everyone else's products that they were producing by having an unusual effect which in turn will grab the audiences attention.
Throughout the production of the poster, I have been usuing my primary research that I carried out at the beginning of the coursework to help me decide how to set out the layout of my poster. I have also used google to look at more surreal film posters, but did not include these in my research on my blog as I already felt I had enough that I had analysed but just used others as references.
During this week I have designed two mock ups for the poster. One was the first with the unconfirmed title on and the second only had the title changed to the confirmed one as the design/ layout was fine and fitted in with the conventions of surreal film. Also started putting together my poster. I used a dark background like a lot of the other posters I had researched had used as this brings the audiences attention to the main image and the title/ writing on the poster. However, the problem that I am going to have to face next is creating the keyhole shape with the main image placed inside it as my skills on photoshop are not brilliant. I next attempted to make the keyhole shape and this was a lot more tricky than what I imaged it to be. I started by drawing a shape with the auto shapes tool and then opened the picture I was going to use as the main image. I tried to cut the image like a keyhole shape but this resulted in the lines being too wonky and didn't look professional. This was a major problem as this was going to be the focal point of the whole poster.