Matthew Burniston created a poster and thumbnail for a production. He used techniques like overlaying noise and adjusting brightness/contrast to improve quality. He cut himself out of a photo using the polygonal lasso tool. For the poster, he added more color using layer modes and overlays. He filled empty spaces with a smashed glass effect and sharpened the image. Stars showing through the background were erased. Shadows were added using the pen tool. Footage was adjusted to a dusk look using color, sharpening, and crop adjustments. A title sequence was made using double exposure by layering images with lighten and screen modes. Text was added and the sequence was imported into Premiere with tram lines and a

1. Production Log
Matthew Burniston

2. Poster
Before actually making a start on
piece, I had the idea to make to
variant products out of this – a
poster as intended and a
thumbnail - a widened version of
the same artwork without the logo
– for things such as if it was put on
iPlayer, they often use thumbnails
on the video? So to start this idea, I
used a template cut out - two
black bars either side to inform
me where it'd be cropped.
A cheap trick I often find can help
trick the quality into looking higher
whilst also giving back a lot of the
texture lost with things like 'surface
blur' and 'reduce noise' is by
overlaying a solid layer of noise
above all the layers – so that it adds
noise to all the layers bellow it.
When it came to cutting myself out of a
photo I took for this (or anything else in
photoshop,) I chose to use the 'polygonal
lasso tool,' to select around myself of the
object, to be taken into 'select and mask...'
- especially with things like hair, which I
often cut out separately – as with the hair
I use a high edge detection, which messes
with the lines...
Adjustments (Layer)
Brush opacity

3. Poster
When coming to tweaking my
poster after completing the
first rendition. I fixed a lot of
the problems it bared – such
as the brightness issue using
the 'brightness/contrast
adjustment (layer,) sometimes
using the mask to pin point
and focus light where it was
needed more – for example
the protagonist to make him
stand out more, as well as
glares from light sources – as
to bring up the contrast and
brightness in areas of the
piece, not mention making it
feel more grimy?
On top of this I included a lot
more colour to piece
(something which with time I
felt it was lacking a lot of.)
To do that I used layer
modes, – like overlay, in
accompany of either 'paint
bucket tool' or the 'brush tool'
- for either focused or general
applied light.
First Attempt Final Product
Also, when coming to adjustments, I wanted to fill up some of
the blank spaces (and somewhat cover up some advice some
pointed out that glares can often be a way to cover up
emptiness,) thus I fell the need to add more, so I added a
smashed glass effect, over the piece, to add to the
grimy aesthetic of the product – using the screen mode, I could
only keep the lighter areas (made easy with a lot of the
searched photos being white on black.)
Furthermore, I sharpened the
piece using the 'unsharpen
mask...` filter, giving that
sharpen look, whilst also
allowing me to work into the
shadows of the piece –
helping the image pop that
much more.
One of the other problems I
had with my piece is that you
could see the stars through
the background, so to get
around this, I went onto the
original layer and used the
'eraser tool' to cut out the
stars that shouldn't be there –
originally left to have the
interion of a cool starry effect
leak, but coming off just more
cheap and tacky...
Another quick lighting
adjustment I did was using the
pen tool (with a black colour)
and painting on the shadow,
to be completed with the
layer mode and often dabbing

4. Pre-Title Sequence
When trying to play about with
turning my footage into night rather
than day and eventually settling on
the darker blue – dusk look that I
had.
To this, I played about with a lot of
effects placed into a layer
adjustment and later – would
mainly be composed of things such
as 'lumetri colour' - to adjust a lot of
the colour and brightness,
'unsharpen mask' - to help sharpen
is as I had on the poster' and 'crop' -
to add a tram line effect to the
product.
At the start of my product, I use frame
wipe, the way I do this is by using an
animated mask – created using the 'pen
tool' across the areas I want to remove into
the transition of the next frame, which
would be placed under the current footage.
To add the BBC water mark over my
product I went online to find a BBC logo
and place it over all the footage and used
the 'screen' layer mode to bring out the
white over the footage, for me then bring
down the opacity down to make it look
more authentic next to actual BBC footage.
For the audio I produced a sound
scape I had created at home and
would later implement into the
actual edit at college.

5. The Title Sequence
With my title seuqnence, what
heavily inspired my title
sequence was the true detective
one – using a double exposure
effect, an effect I achieved by
layering a lot of footage and
using various layer modes –
mainly 'lighten,' placing images
into the darker tones of images,
whilst also using things like
'screen' to place only the
highlights over the layers below.
Whilst doing my title sequence,
I'd make everything
monochromatic (very rarley
keeping what would've be the
original tone,) to later and in
some colour over/into the piece
– in which I'd later do with
things like 'curves' adjusments.
To place text in
(forgetting the logo I'd
previosly created and
saved in Photoshop,) I
used, using the text tool
– placing it into the
emptist places on each
cut to fill in the spaces
or state whoe the
character show is being
played by.
To finish this all of, I'd
later be importing this
into premier and make
it blend in more with
the rest of the products
– such as the tram lines
and BBC watermark.
To impliment a lot a lot buildings into
my product, I'd often play about with
them in to Photoshop to play about
with the siloute into my product – such
as getting the right highlights or
shadows.
Whith the mirrored image going into to
each other, I got this affect from moving
footage and applying the 'mirror'
adjustment at my desired angle.