movie poster, help :)

hey there. for a project in media we have to design our own movie posters.

Im not very good @ photoshop so personally im not sure

its for a really gore/horror film

heres mine SO FAR. not ready at all yet.

just wondering if you guys could give me some pointers




cheers

ok imagine theface isnt there, i delted it

Needs work.

one thing I can say that bothers me is that there is not one thing that is overlapping another and it makes the poster seem empty ...

Empty poster like righteous_trespasser pointed out.
Not much going on on the poster.
Look at some examples of horror move posters
Meaning of colors as well
Some horror-Dos and Horror-Don'ts

Hope that some of that helped.

Yeah, there is not alot happening here. You need to put more into it, try and sort of minimise the black but still have the odd black bit showing. You need more images and maybe play about with the layer styles to the text.

I don't have Photoshop here, but if my memory serves right you go to Layer>Layer tools>then pick layer options or something like that. It should have various tabs. Maybe play about with shadows (but don't go OTT) or even just a thin 1px sized stroke with a colour that doesn't differ too much from the text colour.

Just play about with the tools you don't normally look at, you'll learn quick enough and soon enough you'll get a goodish effect.

Good luck!

i like what you were trying to do, but i would make it more intricate if you could

And this in case you still need help.

i apologize for replying 4567 years later but heres the final

my teacher passed me

I'll give you credit, that's alot better than the first one.

Good job!

thanks lot

I like it a lot more, but it still feels to me like the objects were just loosely placed on the black background ... have a look at this. I'm really not trying to be harsh or anything like that, just giving you my opinion ...

a much better result than of the first one.

Good one.. that poster has a much more believable light source.

Notice how the person's silhouette is dark, with light glowing from behind it? That might be the way to go for your poster instead of having the silhouette's be white on a black background. Just an idea..

cant see the final?...