Rosie Gunnell

After weeks of creating a poster for our short film, I came up with the following:

In order to create an effective poster to advertise our film, we worked together discussing ideas that we would use throughout our production, webpage and poster. We decided that we would include pictures of mushrooms that have been edited with special effects in order to emphasis our title of Hallucination. I decided to edit 2 pictures of mushroom and use them in different sizes and directions then arranged them in a line to look like they would be growing in a bunch on the forest floor. I also decided to edit a picture of a beer bottle by again cutting round it and adding effects then placing the one image in different sizes and at different angles among the mushrooms. This creates a message of trouble by mixing drugs and alcohol.

We also decided that we would use pictures of the actors and actresses but not included their identity so that it increases the target audience's interest. Keeping this in mind, I edited photos using Photoshop by cutting them out and arranging the characters on the poster in an effective way. The way in which we arranged them consisted of arranging the characters to make it look like they were walking out of the mushrooms and bottles.

The background that i decided to choose includes a light in the top left corner that gradually fades into darkness (black). I used this to create the effect that the mushrooms and alcohol are in the darkness, illustrating them as something bad. I then put the characters walking out of the darkness and towards the light as if they were entering a dream world, full of hallucinations.