The document discusses editing a magazine poster image in Photoshop. It describes adjusting brightness, exposure, and vibrance to emphasize the red blazer and gun. It also discusses adding a masthead between layers, changing the model's pose, enhancing contrast, and finding an appropriate background color scheme and font to portray a sinister and dangerous tone emulating gangster film posters.

1. Magazine & Poster construction

2. • The original image was dull and dim, taking
away from the effect of the red blazer.
Furthermore the gun was barely visible ,
and it made the target audience unaware
of his status/role but hid one of the main
point of focus for the image.
When editing I decided to emphasise
the blazer and the gun a bit more.
But overall adjusted the brightness.

3. On Photoshop I adjusted the image using three different image editors, Vibrance,
exposure and brightness/saturation. The brightness did really need to be
enhanced due to the fact that the original image didn’t contain much lighting
meaning it was dull looking. By enhancing the exposure I made it so that it was

4. To insert the masthead I had to create another, layer in which I had to crop out the back
ground, this gave the illusion that there is only one image. By doing this it allowed me
insert the masthead between. The two layers giving the effect that its behind the main
image.

5. • After further consideration I chose to change the magazine models
pose. As I thought it showed more of his true character that would
be portrayed in the trailer. I only used Photoshop to remove the
background from the image using the magic wand tool.

6. • On publisher I had enhanced the contrast by 20% this
gave the model more of a sinister look as it enabled a
slightly chiaroscuro lighting effect and made his
clothing darker and his jacket resemble the colour of
blood and connote danger.

7. I originally was using the original background but after some feedback I
decided to find one to add to the image. However because of my colour
scheme it was hard to find one which was able to display all the text. I also
decided to add grey to the colour scheme as I was told that just red and
black was to simplistic, I chose grey because I thought it worked well even
against the silver background it is highly visible.

8. The original image had good lighting
however it was quite plain all the mise
en scene is there but I found that it
wasn’t effective.
What I decided to do is emulate
previous gangster film posters such
as American gangster. Which can be
described as a film noir look.

9. To edit the image I isolated the colours red and gold to connote the emotions of
fear and also wealth amongst the two main characters. I Changed the image in
to black and white to emulate American gangster. The exposure helped to get a
chiaroscuro effect for the character on the right to his face, the dramatic effect
created a sense of mystery and danger to the character.

10. The title font was chosen out of a possible 8
and I felt it didn’t work well with the picture,
since I was trying to mash the genre of urban
and gangster. I felt the genre of action more so
I decided to look for another one.
I decided to change the title font and keep
the colour scheme with red black and
white, simplistic like most gangster film
posters I have seen. Capitalising on the film
noir look which is a reoccurring convention
in the gangster genre.