Making Of Documentary Poster Mock Up

Here is the process of the making of the first draft of my ancillary product, which is a poster advertising my documentary. Firstly I found an image online of two people shopping, and opened the image on photoshop, as displayed below. This photo had a white background which showed itself to be a bit of an inconvenience. I needed to get rid of this and cut out the white background, and so I cut it out with a 'magic wand' tool and deleted out the white background.

Below is the product of cutting out the white background, and using the magic wand tool to cut out the extra white sections such as the ones between the legs of the male and next to the arm of the female. I chose this image to be used because I think it portrays a good demonstration that both males and females go shopping, as this is something shown in our documentary. These people are also quite young, and this helps because the target audience for our documentary is young people, and also the interviewees involved with our documentary are in a young age range.

I then decided that the blue within the background image of our ident at the start of the documentary would be a good colour to make the documentary, firstly because it will help the target audience to identify what it is, and it links it well with the documentary itself. I did this by using the colour picker tool, and this chose out the blue used in the background of the ident. I used this tool to then move onto a colour filler, and this went onto the background of the poster, as shown below. I feel like this is better than a white background because it isn't monochromic, and it serves well for either white or black typing. 

I then went to the start of the documentary and screenshotted the ident, and placed it into the poster. This served well to go into the corner, because it doesn't distract the attention of the focal image, but is still prominent within the poster.  

I then experimented with various typography within photoshop, and decided on using a couple of different fonts as this provides some sort of a difference and keeps the poster interesting. I also included the cast, which is the credits. 

After this, I went onto google images again and found a photo of four stars, put it onto photoshop and used the magic wand tool again to make the background of it the same as the rest of the poster. This provides some sort of a professional air around the poster, and changes it from something homemade to be something that is actually within the industry.

Overall, I am happy with my progress so far because I think it is starting to come across as a fairly professional poster for a documentary, with a focal image, colour theme and various typography.