Creating the Ultimate Halloween Movie Poster | GDT Week 4 - Project 4

As a last project for my Graphic Design Theory course, I had to create a movie poster. The theme: Halloween. Why? Maybe because October is around the block, and with it the famous night of Halloween.

Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31, a tradition that dates back 2,000 years ago, when the Celts lived, mostly in Ireland, the U.K., and northern France.

As I read in a History article: “In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future”.

The thing is that I have only experienced Halloween through movies and series, and I was eager to create a design for the theme. I know that Halloween is not exclusively about horror but I have always liked horror movies, I like vampires, zombies, werewolves, and the list goes on, and many horror movies are premiered in October.

For this project, I had some ideas, but they changed constantly. It was a little hard to get to the one design I wanted to create, but finally, I created something that I feel happy about. It's not my best work, there's always room for improvement, and I still need to sharpen my skills in Photoshop.

The design I created is a horror movie poster about those walking corpses. Yeah, you guessed right. Zombies!

The elements I used were:

• The photograph of my dad, which was taken by me. I added some textures to his skin to make him look kind of dead.
• The text, for which I used two typefaces, Franklin Gothic URW (condensed), and Scary Zombie for the main title.
• The background is a haunted house I borrowed from Google.
• The effect of fog I made using brushes.
• The colors, taken from the person's clothes and the background.
• And a bloody brain, as a reference to what some zombies like to eat.

I had to research horror movie inspo, how designers create great movie posters, and how they compose them to attract people. 

Creating this design was an interesting task. It allowed me to practice other techniques, and it also gave me creative freedom.

As I often say in my posts, everything takes practice. I'm satisfied with my design outcome, and I'm looking forward to creating something even better. I've also been practicing the basic principles of design.

What kind of Halloween/Horror movie poster would you have made?