Second Poster Idea

After the failure of my first poster idea, I still wanted to do something adventurous and different with my poster. I was looking at posters like Scarface for inspiration -

I liked the two-tone colours and the minimalist design. I felt that this reflected strongly the thriller themes I wanted to convey - the main flaw of the previous poster.

I started with this scene from the film. I chose it because I liked the framing and I felt it could create the correct mood.

I started by posterizing the photo - First I desaturated it so it was only two colours (in this case a sort of sepia) and I coloured in parts of her face, hair, and the background to make them less textured. That ended up looking like this:

That looks a little odd currently, but photoshop's posterize function fixes this:

I added in a review (from The Guardian at this point, although it was my plan to change it later) and a specially-desaturated version of the title.

I was already much more pleased with this poster - however I felt that the traditional thriller red was shockingly absent. To remedy this, I added a red gradient fill layer in all the white spaces - the gradient was to give the background a little more colour than it would have otherwise.

I really liked the result - however, I felt it wasn't complex enough. I decided to adapt this into an even more adventurous poster design - one that I felt would reflect her dual nature.