Blade Poster

We were first given a task to design and create a poster to advertise the film 'Blade' We had to include pictures, the film title and a slogan we had made up. We learned about the four hot spots and I incorporated them into my design. The title of the film, the vampire picture and the picture of Blade were all in the hot spots, which draw the reader into the poster.

Using the photoshop layers, I established the first layer which was the red background. I then used a variety of black grunge brushes to create the blood inspired horror background. I then cut out using the 'lasso' tool a picture of Blade. This was very hard to do because the picture is detailed. I think I could have edited it better if I spent more time on it. I then cut out a picture of a vampires mouth from a picture found on the Internet. I feathered the picture and used the burn tool to give a smoke feel and give a 'gorey' smoke feel. I then wrote the text that I imported from www.dafont.com . I used white text so that it would stand out from the black background. I used the gradient tool to back the 'Blade' look like it was a blade. I then imported the small print from another poster.