RESPONSE TO 'TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY'

Over the past few weeks, we have been gaining more of an insight to Adobe Photoshop CS4 and how to use it in conjunction with our ancillary tasks. Having already researched the film posters for Tomas Alfredson's 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy', I decided to take an image and to edit it in a style that was used for the original film posters. 

The original poster shows Gary Oldman's character George Smiley constructed from inverted text on a simple black background. There are also many elements of text that are either made bold or written in a different colour to highlight them from the rest, for example, 'WINTER', 'AGENT' and 'THE ENEMY IS WITHIN'. The final quote illustrates possibly how a character from within the British secret service could be the one to betray them all, (foreshadowing). From this, I chose to pick out the key characters from the film and the film title.One problem that I found was that I couldn't make the text stand out enough, given that the text font itself was quite small and in white or red it isn't very visible. To resolve this I laid another layer of text on top and added drop shadows and burn effects. 
The only element that I am not entirely pleased with is the titling because it isn't completely visible within the red text against the background, however this does add to the aspect of the spy/espionage genre.