Movie Parody
Movie Parody Posters
Movie parody posters, such as the ones shown below are comical takes of film advertisements.
These posters can be merged with other films, political figures, and famous individuals to create an effective and humerus film parody poster.
Generally Adobe Photoshop is used to create these posters, as it provides a much more clean and real-looking appearance and finish.
These posters can be merged with other films, political figures, and famous individuals to create an effective and humerus film parody poster.
Generally Adobe Photoshop is used to create these posters, as it provides a much more clean and real-looking appearance and finish.
Below is my own parody poster of the 2016 'Ghost Busters' film, in which I have modified the film to become Ghost Musters. This parody is aimed at changing the name to something that sounds the same as "Busters" and then targeting the characters to become cowboys.
I placed my face on the centred character, and added in different text, accessories and whips to fit the theme/parody.
I placed my face on the centred character, and added in different text, accessories and whips to fit the theme/parody.
How I created the movie parody poster
- Open Adobe Photoshop
- Open the poster image which was the background for the poster (file - open - select image)
- Double click the 'background' layer to unlock it
- Open the image files of the people, title, accessories and other images to edit
- Using quick selection tool, select the section of each image you would like to add to together, for example I selected the bodies of the three characters. Changing to the move tool, click and drag the selected section onto the desired layer.
- Using editing tools such as the eraser, colour balance, hue/saturation etc adapt the scene together.
- Due to the character image being incomplete in some areas (because I had to get rid of the guns) I had to illustrate some of the clothing, hands and details (using the paint tool)
- Repeat the above two steps to add in accessories and such details.
For example I added the cowboy hats, my own face, the symbols on the hats and the whips.
- Once I had the characters together and I had erased all imperfections and areas which had become too pixelated. I selected all the layers on the right side of the screen (by holding shift) then used the move tool to drag all the characters and accessories onto the actual poster background.
- Scale the characters using the transform tool (edit - transform - scale) transform the characters to the desired size.
- I opened the jpeg file of the "Ghost Musters" text, and used the 'magic eraser' tool to rid of the unwanted background, then dragged it onto the poster background (the one which has the characters) and scaled it, I inverted the image title as it was black and I needed it to be white, I then adjusted the colour and saturation.
- I added another Ghost Busters symbol to become the letter O, scaled it and adjusted the saturation to match the large symbol on the poster.
- By opening the same background image again for the poster I selected the text I wanted to keep the same and dragged it over the top of the existing one on the working poster file.
- The last step is to add text of your own, trying to match the original as best as possible. The text can then be adjusted for its kerning, height and other elements to suit the original.
- finally adjusting each layer to make the final scene look as real and professional as possible, things such as saturation, sharpness, colour balance needs to be finalised.
- Open Adobe Photoshop
- Open the poster image which was the background for the poster (file - open - select image)
- Double click the 'background' layer to unlock it
- Open the image files of the people, title, accessories and other images to edit
- Using quick selection tool, select the section of each image you would like to add to together, for example I selected the bodies of the three characters. Changing to the move tool, click and drag the selected section onto the desired layer.
- Using editing tools such as the eraser, colour balance, hue/saturation etc adapt the scene together.
- Due to the character image being incomplete in some areas (because I had to get rid of the guns) I had to illustrate some of the clothing, hands and details (using the paint tool)
- Repeat the above two steps to add in accessories and such details.
For example I added the cowboy hats, my own face, the symbols on the hats and the whips.
- Once I had the characters together and I had erased all imperfections and areas which had become too pixelated. I selected all the layers on the right side of the screen (by holding shift) then used the move tool to drag all the characters and accessories onto the actual poster background.
- Scale the characters using the transform tool (edit - transform - scale) transform the characters to the desired size.
- I opened the jpeg file of the "Ghost Musters" text, and used the 'magic eraser' tool to rid of the unwanted background, then dragged it onto the poster background (the one which has the characters) and scaled it, I inverted the image title as it was black and I needed it to be white, I then adjusted the colour and saturation.
- I added another Ghost Busters symbol to become the letter O, scaled it and adjusted the saturation to match the large symbol on the poster.
- By opening the same background image again for the poster I selected the text I wanted to keep the same and dragged it over the top of the existing one on the working poster file.
- The last step is to add text of your own, trying to match the original as best as possible. The text can then be adjusted for its kerning, height and other elements to suit the original.
- finally adjusting each layer to make the final scene look as real and professional as possible, things such as saturation, sharpness, colour balance needs to be finalised.