In order to create my ancillary products I needed to have a corresponding picture which related back to the trailer which could be feature on the front of the product; in this case I as shooting for the film poster magazine. I had the concept of taking a still from one of the scenes in the trailer, that scene being at the end when the female protagonist is seen unconscious in the bath and in a state of suffering. I shot these picture on location and not in the studio with out studio lights therefore it made it a little harder to get the perfect shot with out access to all studio equipment.
These ones featured the killers hand over the victims mouth because I felt that it added a more intense feel to the picture as she almost look calm in the pictures above when she is just laying in the bath. This is not the tone I wanted to convey so by adding the hand over the mouth it automatically referenced suffocation, danger and set the whole tone of the picture to be more intense. This matched the genre way more than the previous pictures I had taken.
These next pictures, I had taken the hand away again but had played with the lighting. As I didn't have access to studio lights I had to work with the lights which were installed in the bathroom I was using. However although the quality of the pictures seem better due to a higher exposure than previous photographs, this wasn't what I wanted to convey in the poster photograph due to the nature of the genre. A typical conventional film poster for the genre of thriller/horror conveys low key lighting and has a mysterious feel to the picture. Due to this I discontinued to play with the light in terms of making the set brighter as the low-key lighting was working much better in terms of setting the correct miss-en-scene and tone of the poster.
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