In order to make my retro film poster I chose one of my most recently watched films which was The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The first thing I did was to create a background in Adobe Photoshop CS6; once I had a suitable black background for my image that I had yet to choose I looked for the film logo on Google Once I found the logo on a film cover I removed it from the image it was already on with the magic wand tool and placed it over my black background in a new layer. This is how I had the base for my film cover.

Once I had this I knew I had to find an image which explained a little bit about the film and/or the characters personalities. Upon finding this image I placed it on a layer and followed the same procedure as last time by removing the background that was already there. As the characters hair was quite messy it was difficult to make it look good by just using the magic wand tool so once I had done this I played about with the edges until I had an image that didn't look completely out of place on the black background.

 After finishing with the edges I decided in order to make my image look ‘retro’ I needed to edit the levels, brightness and contrast of the poster until it seemed like it had aged.  Another technique I put to practise was to use the wax effect which would once again make the poster seem older. Once all this had been done I felt it needed the credits of the film to make it look official so I typed them out in my own style on a new layer. Once all this had been done I merged every layer down and it became a solid image. I'm proud of this image as I feel it looked good compared to the other posters I found on this film.