Your final thoughts on the poster – what do you like

about it, what don’t you like?

What I liked within both of my posters: First of all, the one concept of
the posters that I especially liked include the idea of turning the Blob
into a kaiju monster similar to Godzilla or Kong which I think gave a
unique spin to the concept overall to help it stand apart among the
rest.
Furthermore, another part of my Landscape poster that I love is the
use of bright, contrasting colours to the black and white backdrop
that I used to highlight the important parts of the poster like the
car’s headlights and the Blob itself. Moreover, another idea that I
used on my Portrait poster that I love is the overall scale of the Blob
looming over the city menacingly showing how truly terrifying a
threat the Blob is.
Some more specific things that I like about my Portrait poster is the
look of the Blob, while a bit disproportionate I think it’s the most
aesthetically pleasing part of the poster with my use of filters and
blurs within the design.
For the Landscape poster I absolutely love how I handled the
headlights shining onto the Blob, I think this is also very aesthetically
pleasing and looks relatively realistic in placement and look.
I also really like the reflection I did for the Blob in the water, I think
this looks really realistic and is my favourite part of the design.
What I disliked within both of my posters: For my portrait poster I
believe the negatives outweigh the positives and for the landscape
poster the positives outweigh the negatives.
One thing I dislike about my Landscape poster is the fact that I think I
could’ve made the Blob’s colour scheme darker overall as I think it is
still too bright for a horror poster and it was very tough to get the
look that I wanted and I could have done much better.
Furthermore, one part of my portrait poster that I dislike would be
the overall look of the final product, I think I could’ve done a much
better job with my use of tools and splicing all the images together
for a better, more consistent looking poster due to the fact it is not
as good as I would’ve originally wanted it to be and isn’t a display of
my skills at photoshop even with a more difficult concept for a poster
like this one. Moreover, I also dislike my use of colour with a lot of
very poorly executed colour schemes on the photos used in the
poster, the main offender being the city being a very jarring
saturated purple colour which I think just does not look good.
Overall, my final thoughts on these posters are mostly mixed as I
believe for both posters, there are positives and negatives that came
as a consequence of me trying to convey exactly what a reboot
poster should look like and in utilizing different codes and
conventions to create a stand out poster above my past projects and
other similar concepts.

Your thoughts on using Photoshop – what techniques did

you use, what did you learn?
While this is not my first time using photoshop, I still believe that I
learned many new things about the application with the main and
most important skill learned being that I’ve found new and quicker
ways to create the effects that I want, prime example being the
headlights and backlights on the car in my landscape poster were
made with use of opacity, saturation and outer/inner glow.
Another technique used was blurs/filters which I made great use of
for practically everything in my posters. For example, the effect for
the Blob in my landscape poster made use of lens, gaussian and
motion blur and its reflection made use of the ripple effect and
opacity which gave what I believe is a fantastic effect for the creature
in my poster.

How does your poster compare to professional horror

posters (in general)
In general, I think my posters compare quite well to professional
horror posters. Not in regards to the looks as I think compared to a
professional standard my poster doesn’t compare, however I believe
that my utilization of the codes and conventions present in most
professional posters is very apparent in my opinion.

How does your poster compare to the original poster

design?
I think that my poster and the original poster are drastically different,
with one of them having a very classic old movie look with what was
common in its time, and mine being very modern and something
that you would see in current time.

Is your final poster suitable for a modern audience?

Yes, I believe both of my posters are very suitable for modern
audiences as I think it conveys everything a modern audience might
want to see in a horror movie poster through my use of codes and
conventions throughout both posters.

What would you do differently next time?

For my portrait, I think next time I would focus more on creating a
more consistent looking and clean looking final product to truly
refine the overall feel of the poster into a foreboding and
intimidating image. For both posters I think if I had taken more
photos myself, I could truly make my vision come to life by taking an
array of photos that match my idea exactly to what I want it to be as
opposed to mostly compiling images I had found off of Google, the
photos used for the actual Blob creatures are the worst offenders of
this as I had to cut out parts of those images when I could’ve taken
an image to match exactly what I want it to look like.

HOW HAVE YOU INCLUDED PARTICULAR CODES AND

CONVENTIONS OF HORROR FILM POSTERS IN YOUR OWN
POSTER?
Within my poster, I used an array of Codes and Conventions to
solidify my product as what a real horror poster would convey. With
the main monster in the centre and darkened to highlight the
mystery and horror behind it, the dark city backdrop and stormy sky
conveying an overall darkened and miserable atmosphere and a
darker colour palette that still pops out at you along with imposing
taglines directed at the audience and the title in a bright yellow like
all Blob films before it.
All of these ingredients combined helped to create posters with a
healthy balance of common horror poster design tropes to create an
excellent final product consistent to how all modern posters stay
consistently well done and menacing.

HOW DID YOUR RESEARCH AFFECT THE OUTCOME OF YOUR

POSTER?
Finally, I believe my research of all three Blob posters along with
films like Godzilla helped the outcome of my poster by giving me
general baselines of what I want my poster to look and feel like.
While I did not follow the look of many other horror posters too
closely, I think this further adds to the unique feel the Blob and its
posters have always had.