Photograph Editing

I found this image of Durlock House (setting for our horror movie trailer) on Google Maps and used editing software and websites such as Paint and Picmonkey.com to create an image that would be more suitable and relevant to the conventions of a horror movie setting.

I used Paint to rearrange the proportions of the image and lengthen the height of the image to 'portrait' which will be suitable for possibly a horror movie poster. I edited the exposure of the photograph on Picmonkey.com where I adjusted the brightness, shadows, highlights and contrast until I found the desired effect. I then used filters on Picmonkey.com such as 'Dusk', 'Black and White', 'Cinerama', 'Holga' and 'Infrared' to create a darker and older looking feel to the picture. I also increased the saturation and temperature of the image to give a slightly red 'burnt' effect.

I think this image could be used as one of our film posters as it depicts the setting of our horror movie and fits in well with the conventions of the horror genre as the image is dark, 'gritty' and old looking, which is also relevant to the period of time our trailer will make references to.

I took inspiration from The Conjuring film poster's below, as they fit in well with the sub-genre of Supernatural which is what we are basing our horror trailer on.