Finished Motion Poster

Here is my fished poster...

To achieve the zombie look I grey brushes, the burn tool (a lot) and textures that I overlaid on the face and used blending modes like overlay and soft light. I used the burn tool to darken and dirty up the face. For the text I used a scratched metal texture and I also added a shadow to the figure using a black soft brush and lowering the opacity of the layer.

Here is the LINK to my finished motion poster. I split the image into a foreground image and a background image. Between them I added a rainfall effect in after effects. 

Motion Poster

The dark knight rises motion poster has a foreground (batman), a background (the bat symbol) and a layer inbetween that is animated. This creates a 3D look.

The foreground of my poster will be a zombie, the background will this image ---->

I want it to be darker at the bottom where the title 'RUN & HIDE' will be in white thick text with scratchy and blemished textures over it

here are some of my ideas...

Photoshop Zombie Tutorial

Heres how to turn someone into a zombie

LINK

These are the textures

Horror Photography

Kayleigh Ball has used a slow shutter speed to get a long exposure. This creates the scary look

there are a lot of different images over laid on this poster. there is a spooky sky, the derelict london city scape and the zombies and trapped people. the text and logo are scratched and messy like the surroundings 

this poster uses a spooky wood setting and back lit to create an outline of the figure 

The scream poster uses the chin of the mask as a knife which is the murder weapon in the film. the text also has a knife like M

the combination of the eye and the fingers adds a creepy look

This poster use a dark surrounding to create a spooky face. the focus is on the eyes as they are wide and bright

Photoshop Berfore/After

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Photoshop skills filters

i added a warming filter at 25% to raise the tempter of the image, this was to over powering so i decreased the layers opacity to 30% this gave a more subtle effect

Photoshop skills colour

I used the master curses to even out all the colours then i made alterations to the red and blue curves individually to get better results

Photoshop skills contrast

here i have duplicated the original layer and set the blend mode to soft light to increase the contrast of the image. to tone it down i have lowered the opacity to 23%

Carnival Stills

These are two of the better stills I took of the carnival.

I used a small f-stop (f/5.0 0r f/5.6) to get a good depth of field.

Light warfare behind the scenes

These video from behind the scenes of light warfare, it shows you how they made their light painting video. you can get some good tips from it

What light painting is...

Light painting is a photographic technique usually performed at night or in a dark area where a photographer introduces different lighting elements during a single long exposure photograph. The duration of the exposure is typically around 5 minutes long but can range from a few seconds to several hours. Lighting elements can be introduced directly or indirectly using flashlights, light up toys, cell phones, or anything that emits light. The type of equipment required for light painting can include any camera that has the ability for longer shutter speeds. Most Light Painting photographers use a Digital SLR along with a tripod and remote shutter release to give them full flexibility with their light painting efforts.