•Poster and Magazine:
•As well as making a trailer me and
Irena had to make a poster and a magazine cover each using photoshop, the
programme I had never used before.
•I knew several people who are
really good at it, so I asked them to tutor me on weekends, so I can understand
how different tools work.
•I have taken several images, as I
had poster and magazine cover draft ideas and I picked out the ones that I thought will look the
best in terms of working with background and lighting.
•Firstly I made the poster. I took
the image of the main character Kylie to be the background, but I decided to
take only half of her face to represent how she had split personality disorder.
•My friend downloaded several templates for me, so I have chosen a retro
looking template and then adjusted then brightened and faded some parts to
improve the image. My eye and lip make up were dull, so I used a tool to
sharpen them up and increase the white in the eye and the blacks in the eyes
and the lips. I selected and slightly raised and moved the area of the mouth to
give the character an evil face expression. Then I used the adjusting tool
which corrected all the lines and made the image natural.
•I created a title, billing block,
date of the film, the tag line and film reviews in different fonts and colours. For the title I used Microsoft and Handwritten styles to draw attention and to have part of it look like it was written with blood. For the tag line and reviews I used century and that made them fit with the poster, but not draw as much attention as the title. I then had the trouble of moving them around the poster.
Firstly I wanted the title to be at the top, but when I moved it down, it gave
the layout more space and made the poster look more realistic.
• For the magazine cover I found an interesting Total Film
magazine cover online that inspired my work.
•As my image is a big close up and
Kylie’s character is the main person in the film, I decided to have her with
the knife as the background for the cover. I enlarged the image according to
the page and the result was her face with the knife, which looked scary and
effective.
•I then needed to change the colour
of the image, so it looks black and white. I also sharpened, the image and
increased the saturation so it looks more brighter. By adjusting the shadows
and whites further, I added a nice flick of white light to the knife top and
the hair.
•I had to make the title for the
film, which I decided to make similar to the bottom writing, as it talks about
my film, the main point in the issue. I used one of the Microsoft fonts, because they are really neat and make the title look professional and realistic. I also made other small texts about other
articles included in the magazine. For them I used Bookman font as it is not as bold, but still looks straight and accurate. I
included the date, issue number and the website and of the magazine, as well as
the barcode to make it look more realistic.
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