2. When manipulating and changing my photos to create my promotional pieces
I used the software Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. These programmes gave
me the tools I needed to change and edit photos to make them appeal in the
way I want them to.
INTRODUCTION
3. Seeing that my teaser trailer is based around an unknown antagonist
threatening my protagonist, I wanted his identity to be non-existent so it
stayed consistent with my other products. I decided that the best way of doing
this would be to blur out his face so that no one could who he really is. To do
this, I used the tool known as the “magnetic lasso tool!” This allowed me to
crop around my protagonists face and select the area I wanted to be blurred.
BLURRING OUT THE
ANTAGONISTS FACE
4. Next I went to the tool bar, and clicked on the
“Filter” tab. From here I went down to Blur,
then field Blur. This opened up the following
editing options.
BLUR EFFECT
5. To then blur out the face, I adjusted the
first slider called blur. As I cropped around
the face, only the face is blurred out,
hiding the individuals identity.
BLUR EFFECT
6. This is something I also used Photoshop for and was relatively simple. This
too involved using the “magnetic lasso tool!”. I then cropped around each of
my characters and moved them onto each layer. This meant that I could easily
adjust each character and they way they were positioned. For example, I made
the antagonist much larger which helped make him look more domineering.
POSITIONING OF THE
CHARACTERS
7. When deciding what sort of background I wanted for my film poster, I
decided to go with something that went along with the general theme of
technology which is evident in my teaser trailer. In the end, I wanted a sort of
pixilated background, I did this by adding noise so a plain white background
in Photoshop by doing to the filter tab then noise.
BACKGROUND
8. After adjusting the noise levels in the editor, I simply just added it to
background of my protagonists creating the background I wanted.
BACKGROUND
9. As I put the antagonist onto it’s own layer, I can now adjust the layer to adjust
only the antagonist. As I felt he wasn’t threatening enough, I added a number
of shadows to make him appear darker. I did this by adjusting the Stroke and
inner shadow
LAYER STYLE
10. With the application of this to my
background also. You can clearly tell
the difference between the images
with the right image being darker
LAYER STYLE
11. For my Film Poster, InDesign was mainly used just for touching up small
aspects and adding text to make my film poster complete. All in all I added
The film title “Identity” the tag line “Who are you talking to?” a billing block
and another cover line “Coming Spring 2014” to do this, I put the poster into
InDesign and added another layer in which I placed the text onto.
INDESIGN
12. Using the text tool to add text to my film poster, I was able to edit the text to
get it to the perfect style and position that I wanted using the toolbar at the
top.
INDESIGN - CONTINUED
