Les Miserables is one of my favorite musicals. To be honest, I 
didn’t really care for the movie that I imitated my poster after, but I think the posters are beautiful.
To start I did my make up to look as close to the movie poster as possible. I once took a stage makeup class at BYU and we learned how to movie star makeup. I tried my best, but I still did a lot of work in Photoshop.
For my set up I stayed in my bathroom because my mirror 
has those big round lights you see in movie star bathrooms – basically I am a movie star. The light was a little warm, but the light was soft and really nice.
I threw a black sheet over the shower curtain, put my camera on a tripod and myself on a chair and shot a hundred shots. I thought it was going to be extremely complicated, but getting my image was the easy part. I spent the majority of my time in Photoshop doing retouching and trying to get the lighting just right.
For my critiques I had Doug Phan and Hillary Hendricks look over my poster and they helped me to see things I hadn’t noticed before.
This project was a blast! I wouldn’t mind creating more movie posters because it was that fun. I loved trying to replicate someone’s work and watching tutorials on how to retouch.
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