Make Yourself The Main Character For An Added Challenge
This was my first time creating a movie poster and it was a lot of fun! I am pregnant and thought it would be fun to do a movie where the main character is pregnant so that I could use myself as the main character. I chose the movie “What to Expect When You’re Expecting.”
I took the photo of myself in a shaded area near my home at golden hour (around the time of sunset). The light ended up working perfectly for the movie poster because there were no harsh shadows. The fun part of this photo shoot was that I was able to use some of these photos to announce my pregnancy to friends and family on social media thus killing two birds with one stone!
I used a DSLR to take the picture. I generally try to keep my photos at 200 or so iso to keep the quality high and the noise minimal. I used 200 iso here and a focal length of 50 mm.
For the background image I found a royalty free picture of a bedroom on unsplash.com. I used Photoshop to create the movie poster and was thus also able to use a clipping mask to cut myself out of the original image and put myself on the background of the bedroom.
Here are the original thumbnails:
To make the bedroom look realistic, I blurred it using the blur tool in Photoshop. Generally when you take a portrait where the camera is relatively close to the subject, the subject will be in focus and the background will be blurred.
Something that will make your movie poster look official is using this Movie Poster Font for the credits at the bottom of the poster. It is also important to choose two contrasting fonts. One for the title and one for the featured actors.
Beyond that, just be creative! You may have noticed that instead of saying something like “Coming November 2018,” I said “Due November 2018” to continue the theme of pregnancy. Creativity can take your Movie Poster to the next level.
To see another great example of a movie poster like this one, check out Sarah RodeBush’s post. You can also check out allposters.com to check out their movie poster collection and maybe even buy a poster from your favorite movie!