My Film Poster By Matthew Helliwell

This is the poster I have made for our film, The Lost Hart in adobe photoshop.

I decided to include the two main characters Emily Jayne Hart and Lucy Caskan in the poster. Most importantly their appearances in the poster is very different to in the film. Lucy's face is half lit as I have burned the other half so her face is half lit, this could give her the look of having two sides to her and Emily-Jayne is brightly lit and also I created a ghostly feel to her appearance by scorching marks into her dress to make it seem as though light is flowing through her easily, it gives her the look of being semi transparent. Also I increased the brightness of her skin colour to make her seem more pale and bright. More ghostly and more eerie. The background I used is of a broken mirror, and the frame is very rusty. I tried to symbolize the difference in their characters through colours, Lucy Caskans face is cast in a dark shadow whereas Emily-Jayne's face is shrouded in bright light, which also gives a ghostly feel. Because of these colours I also wrote the names of the actors in contrasting colours to contrast the difference in the characters. The title of the film is written in Copperplate, because I wanted a plain look to the writing, but I added a shadow effect on the last word Hart, spelled according to Emily-Jaynes last name but is a play on the word heart. The tagline "Chasing her ghost" is written in Edwardian handwriting like Emily-Jaynes Attire I also made the last word "Ghost," Overlap into Emily-Jaynes body.

My Influence came from the poster for the film A Beautiful mind, where a shadow is seen in the background amongst a blur of colours. The film poster draws attention to the main character played by Russel Crowe who also has a slight shadow covering half of his face.

To conclude, what I wanted to achieve with this poster is the contrast between the two characters. I achieved this by contrasting the colours wrapping around them I also wanted to give Emily-Jayne a ghostly feel. I think I achieved both of these things.