Creating my movie poster

This is screen shots of my work from Adobe Photoshop.  At the end of the images it shows the first completed draft of one movie poster I intend to create...

 I started off with the original image I had taken on my DSLR camera, during the photoshoot. I chose this pose as I wanted to highlight that the protagonist is always being watched when "dreaming".

I then began to filter the side of the young actor. I enhanced the darkness around his bone structure and his shadow. I also put a green/blue tinge to his skin to give a dream illusion to the image.

By using the Magic Wand tool, I was able to select the outline of the boy, after I began to duplicate the image and place them after each other, I then increased the darkness and contrast further each duplication I made.  

After, through using the Blur Tool I was able to achieve the dream illusion feel I wanted. By blurring the image of the young actor and his duplications, it creates a mysterious and strange, slightly paranormal feel I was going for. I think the colouring, dark edges and blurring also fit very well with my genre.  

I then began to use the same typeface as the teaser trailer, 'Octin Spraypaint' this allowed all of my pieces to flow in continuity. 

To finish my first draft, I made the colour of my text white to make it stand out from the darker background. I also added drop shadows, emboss and gradients to all of the text to make it stand out more from the image in the background.