Original Images

Here is the image I took on my phone of the knife I'm intending to illustrate for my poster final design. I decided to take this image on my phone and not with a Canon because of the fact I'm illustrating it, so you won't see the image of the knife anyway. I want to illustrate this knife on Photoshop to replicate the style of Hitchcock's reinvented poster of Psycho which features an illustrated knife with the title name on the blade of the knife. I don't really like the title being on the blade of the knife, but I like the overall lay-out of the poster, with the knife being the main vocal point of the poster drawing the audiences eye to one of the main aspects of the film itself. The knife is one of the most crucial objects in our short film and believe showing it on the poster will relate both the poster and short film together in a stylistic way. Also, the knife on my review page links into the poster and the film as well, illustrating to the audience that the knife is a key aspect in our short film. Not only does Anthony use it to cut a line in the cocaine, but at the end he uses it to kill his own wife.

I will most likely use a black background because of the survey monkey results we received from the target audience which showed they wanted predominantly a dark secondary colour palette because of thriller/ crime genre of our short film. Another thing I'm thinking about adding, in terms of the 'White Lies' title is a classic font type and colour which would be used on posters of classic thriller films. Here is an example of a film poster from the film Vertigo. I like the old font used on this poster, which almost has a cartoonish feel to it, something which should suit my illustrated movie poster.