2010-04-15, 05:42 PM
For my computer-aided graphic design class, we were tasked with creating a movie poster in Photoshop that would entice someone to buy a ticket after looking at the poster with symbolism and images you'd associate with the movie and what it's all about using shots from the movie. I chose The Girl who Leapt through Time/Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo, because it was a pretty nice movie I had on hand; and it's not a movie I'd be so paranoid about the risk of damaging it while I'm in lugging it around school than some of the classics in my house- oh, and that I had to keep away from choosing rated R stuff. With little memory of how to work with Photoshop and not too much knowledge to be very good at it, I managed to piece these four mock-ups together. Now, I feel like sharing them with you guys.
None of the font choices while working on this at school seemed to fit, so I tried to figure out what I could.
Right now, the teacher said that I should use the third poster in the spoiler. Actually, it's not the mock-up anymore. I've already began editing it into the final thing in school before I got a chance to save the mock-up as a jpeg to share with you guys. Feedback included moving down the image to make the title fit while the image goes naturally into where the credits would go as well as adding in the clouds from the second poster in the spoilers to make the background seem a lot more occupied than the blue space, and you'll notice that at work as well. He also suggested to add text along with some of the images, like lines from the movie. Another bit of feedback I got was changing the font to the way I had it in the fourth picture, which before- it was the same font seen in the first two.
Now, here's what I'd like to ask of you guys: give me your opinions and suggestions on what I should consider for future Photoshop projects on some ways to edit and style my stuff. I'd also like feedback on the third poster to see what else I could do with it, and if you've seen the movie, help me figure out what sort of text should accompany the pictures. Also, feel free to comment on the posters themselves, though I don't really need suggestions for the other three considering that I'm already starting the final stage of making the poster by going with the third poster.
Please do note though: these are mock-ups, and you'll notice glaringly poor editing, but that's because I wasn't going to put much effort into something that'd be a rough draft, basically.
Spoiler
None of the font choices while working on this at school seemed to fit, so I tried to figure out what I could.
Right now, the teacher said that I should use the third poster in the spoiler. Actually, it's not the mock-up anymore. I've already began editing it into the final thing in school before I got a chance to save the mock-up as a jpeg to share with you guys. Feedback included moving down the image to make the title fit while the image goes naturally into where the credits would go as well as adding in the clouds from the second poster in the spoilers to make the background seem a lot more occupied than the blue space, and you'll notice that at work as well. He also suggested to add text along with some of the images, like lines from the movie. Another bit of feedback I got was changing the font to the way I had it in the fourth picture, which before- it was the same font seen in the first two.
Now, here's what I'd like to ask of you guys: give me your opinions and suggestions on what I should consider for future Photoshop projects on some ways to edit and style my stuff. I'd also like feedback on the third poster to see what else I could do with it, and if you've seen the movie, help me figure out what sort of text should accompany the pictures. Also, feel free to comment on the posters themselves, though I don't really need suggestions for the other three considering that I'm already starting the final stage of making the poster by going with the third poster.
Please do note though: these are mock-ups, and you'll notice glaringly poor editing, but that's because I wasn't going to put much effort into something that'd be a rough draft, basically.

