Horrorfilmposter

I chose this picture because when I saw it as I was looking through all of the random pictures we took I had a clear picture of the end product in my head and I instanly knew how to do it.
I whitened and paled the whole figure so the audience knows she is not normal or rather dead and a ghost. The ghost got a big dark mouth and dark eyes to make those stick out. However, she has blood on her throat which is also not paled because if the mouth and the blood sticks out we assume that the mouth is covered with the blood additionally the ghost apparently frets humans.The low angle which is used for this shot puts the ghost into a higher and mightier position. It makes the audience looks up to the figure, feels helpless and scared. They feel like they cannot escape the ghost.
The background of the original picture is light and full with green leaves and other nature things. I used the Burn Tool to make all of the uselees background black but I left the handrail and made it slightly darker so you can see that the ghost is coming down a staircase and it also seems like the ghost lightens the handrail with its brightness in the dark. But I also burned the stairs so it kind of looks like as if the ghost is floating. The reason why I did not light the background but made it black is obviously because black is a colour which is scary because humans are not designed to live in darkness. If someones is surrounded with darkness they are always afraid because they do not know what is around them. The fear of the unknown.
The reason why I chose a dark red for the letters is simply the association with blood. I did not put anything in a HotSpot but surrounded the character with the HotSpots so it seems more important. The tiyle is on the top because Europeans and Americans almost everyone reads from left to right from the top to the bottom. So when you first see the poster the Ghost sticks out because it is bright and white surrounded by nothing. Then you want to know what this picture is about and you automatically start looking for information on the top so it works eventhough I did not really use the HotSpots.