Horror Poster Reconstruction

Original Poster

My Recreation

As a task to practice my abilities with Adobe Photoshop, as well as identifying the key features of a horror poster, and practicing my ability to implement these techniques into my own design as best I could, I recreated the poster for 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'. Initially, I aimed to try and recreate the perspective given from the background image, which appears to take place within a corridor. I found a fairly similar image of a corridor, adding an effect to the colour, giving it a distinct red/yellow effect, similar to that of the original. I then added a black border effect to the image, giving a very isolated feel to the central image. The figures were simply ordinary figures of a cowboy and girl sitting, accompanied with a decreased brightness effect. The text was inspired by the same font as the original, and while there is no definitive way to identify the original font, the recreation's font is very similar. The Warner Bros. Logo and New Line Cinema logos were exact copies, scaled down and recoloured accordingly to match the original.

Overall, I am very happy with the way my version turned out compared to the original. There were certain limitations such as the stances of the subjects in the image and certain advanced effects such as the light rays or the slight grainy effect on certain words such as 'STREET', however I think the finished version doesn't differ too greatly from the original.