Movie Poster

How I made movie posters

I know that we all love amazing movie posters, but a lot of the times we don’t realize how much work is put in them.

To start off I want to say that most of the pictures on the posters below were taken by me. The first poster consists of 2 images. The image of a girl was taken using fog machine and some auxilary lighting (einstein strobe). The second picture of the train was downloaded from PEXELS.com and blended with the picture I took. The mood of the picture reminded me of a movie “Anna Karenina”, so I decided to make it into a movie poster.

Other two posters were also a blend of a couple pictures. Grandson is a make over of a Godfather poster. Since I had that outfit, I decided to kind of make it look like that era and included the picture of a bulding I took long time ago. I used auxilary lighting (speed light) for my self portrait. Black and white feels good with that kind of movie. The Eye poster is a blend of my eye and my wife’s hand. I photoshoped the hand in and changed the color of my eye to make it a little more like a horror movie color.

It was a fun project to work on and I’ve learned a lot about blending images and how to mimic a poster into my own version. I made these posters the way they are because of one of my photography mentors, Caryn Esplin. Here’s her website if you’re interested: http://www.carynesplin.com