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I decided to pay homage to the movie posters of the late 1960's and early 1970's slasher films. I used black&white for the picture, and stuck it between a black boarder to the top and bottom of the picture. I used a blend color of dark reds for the text. I went with a short two sentence description/draw in "It started off as just a song. But then they stayed too long." I thought it was short, and to the point and it rhymed as an extra bonus. I didn't go for obscure text from some website. I used the Cooper Black for the title and characters, for the rest i used Gloucester MT Extra Condensed. I found it to be the best stock text for movie credits, giving it that classic condensed look.

I used an old song from the band The Monkees called Last Train To Clarksville it is an extremely upbeat song (like all Monkees songs) and i decided to flip the idea around and make it into a horror movie poster called Last Train From Clarksville, with the idea of it being like and escape/horror film.

I used a photo from flikr of an old train yard with an abandoned building. I made it black and white, added the train used some black paint on it with the opacity at 10% and was able to blend the black and white photos together nicely. I also did the same with the picture of the monkeys which i cropped and cut out.

All in all I am pleased with the outcome of the poster. It has sparked my interest in photoshop even more, and I plan on continuing to learn the program after my class is over.