Research & Planning: Photoshop Challenge

To reintroduce ourselves to Photoshop, we were set a challenge to create a film poster that suits the genre we picked for our trailer.  For this I used a photograph of Bruce Willis as the main subject of my poster,  a BBFC-style "18" and various fonts to suit the different factors of my poster.  I used Helvetica for the areas that need to be read easily such as "October 2012",  Steel Tongs for the production list at the bottom and another font that suited my genre for my title.
     I think this poster suits my genre well as it sticks to the psychological aspect of my chosen genre by using a photograph that makes direct eye contact with the viewers along with the slogan "What's in your mind?", suggesting the main subject has some sort of mental illness.  I also used red in my image which could suggest a horror factor to my psychological thriller.  This also highlights areas of the poster I want my audience to look at.
     The image I decided to use was effective for my chosen genre as it was crisp and easy to manipulate into a more sinister style.  I did this by taking the photograph of Bruce Willis, covering it with a black rectangle and, using a very soft eraser on a low opacity, removing small amounts of the screen to reveal his face.  I then desaturated the image of its colour and added red eyes so that he seemed a much darker character than he did in the original image.