The document describes a student's process of taking photos on campus to use for a film poster or magazine cover. The student selects photos that show specific emotions. After editing the photos, including adjusting brightness/contrast and adding filters, the student decides to try recreating an inspired image of a woman's face half-formed into a werewolf. The student searches for tutorials, overlays a skull photo onto one of their photos, and is happy with the results. The student also begins researching magazine covers and creating background images and brush effects to design a magazine cover mock-up.

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During a media lesson, we had been given an opportunity to go around the campus and take images
that could be inspiring and to perhaps use for our film poster or magazine cover.
I had formed up a quick list of potential shots I could take. Things that were included on this list
were:
- Close up shot of a girl with a menacing facial expression
- Girl with face shadowed
- Birds eye shot of person looking up, trying to grab camera, screaming
- Wide shot. Of boy sitting, and can see girl trying to grab him
- Close up of boy looking down (emotional) hood up.
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After looking through the images, I chose the ones I thought looked most effective in showing the
emotions I want to create from my trailer, and started on looking for ideas on how I could start to
edit them…
I searched for werewolf images, to see if I could grab any inspiration from images in the same genre
already.
Images I found:

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I looked on YouTube to try and find any relevant and useful tutorial videos that could help me
achieve a ghost like effect.
Once I found a video I felt would get me the
right effect, I uploaded my image and started
to get to work…
First I adjusted the brightness/contrast to get a darker image and to enhance the shadowing on
Tammy’s (girl in image) face.

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Then I zoomed in and cropped the image till I was satisfied with the way it looked
I then added a layer mask to the image and
went onto the ‘quick selection’ tool and
selected around the face, so I could get rid
of the bits of the photo I didn’t want, Once I
had all of these bits selected, I Clicked on ‘fill
black’ and was rid of the selected parts.
I duplicated the layer, and desaturated the
image, making it black and white.
Duplicated the layer again and added ‘motion blur’, making the image seem quite ghost like;
I then added a layer mask, chose a
brush and changed the hardness to 0
and of a low opacity, so that I could
pick out smaller details, to make
them stand out more.
I then merged all the layers.
I clicked onto ‘filters’ and then ‘distort’ and chose ‘difuse
glow’.
After seeing the image, all edited and finished, I decided it
wasn’t quite the right effect I was going for. So I decided to
look for another idea…

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-INSPIRATION. I found a drawn/cartoon image of a woman and half of her
face had been formed into a werewolf face. As soon as I saw this picture,
it instantly reminded me of my groups film/trailer idea. So I decided to try
and recreate it.
Half skull face-
First I opened the picture of Tammy and repeated the first few steps from
my previous idea, where I used the ‘quick selection’ tool and got rid of the
background.
I then added a new layer and added a skull
picture I found on the internet and placed it
on top of Tammy’s photo.
I then reduced the transparency of the skull
image and made it the same size of Tammy’s
face and moved it around till it managed to fit
to the size on Tammy’s face.
I was extremely happy with the results and the way this image looked and I am considering using it
for my film poster.

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Magazine research-
I started looking at well-known film magazine covers and decided to pick out extra bits I could
potentially add on to my mock up magazine cover.
I downloaded a brush to use on Photoshop to create a background I might use for my magazine
cover, this is what I created:
I decided against using only brushes to create my background
image for my cover as I don’t feel it looks very effective. Instead I’ll
be using another background image and add brushes and effects
on to that to make for a more polished overall image.

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FIRST MAGAZINE COVER MOCK UP-