I worked from this version for the movie poster look at the bottom
I just finished editing an incredible movie themed B’not Mitzvah(Two girls having their Bat Mitzvah at the same time) honoring Hayley and Rachel Rappoport and I’m really thrilled at how the DVD cover turned out. So thrilled in fact I had to blog about it!
The Rappoports did a great job transforming Robinson Ranch Country Club for this Mitzvah, where all of the guests walked in on a red carpet lined with ropes and authentic Hollywood stars on the ground with family members names on them. Each table was given a movie theme with the movie “Twilight” as the featured table. I decided to make the cover of the DVD resemble the “Twilight” movie poster, as both girls we honored that night seemed to be quite fond of that romantic vampire saga. After doing some research on “Twilight” movie posters I found that there were actually about ten different versions and luckily one of them had a group shot that I could really work off of in Photoshop.
This is the main movie poster I worked off of for my homage
I had a nice group shot of Hayley, Rachel and many of their friends and I used that as the focal point of the cover. The big challenge was to try and mimic the font used to make the name Rappoport look like the font used on the “Twilight” poster. I found a basic font that I think passes for the main font but I then had to copy and paste many of the streaks coming from the “Twilight” words to get it to feel just right. I then used a freeware “Movie Poster” font from dafonts.com to give me the perfect look at the bottom of the poster. I used Hayley and Rachel’s names along with their family members and friends as the cast members names and then I threw in some of the vendors names like the photographer Photographic Memories as the Director of Photography and the DJ Mike Diaz of Diaz Entertainment in the “Music By” section. All in all I’m really proud of how it turned out. Here’s the finished product for you to see, I’d love to hear comments on what you think or if this was helpful for you.
Hayley & Rachel's B'not Mitzvah DVD Released today!
Wow – good stuff. I love the way the girls look like they are in a cloud or a dream. I do wish I could read the credits better. They are a little blurry, but that’s probably not the case…on the actual case.
Thanks for the insights!