ancillary 1 – movie poster production diary

Ancillary 1 – Movie Poster Image Manipulation

Holly Fairbairn

Taking Photos

The first thing I did was collect the members of my team to take photos based off of the ideas I came up with for my poster layouts. I then chose a

few of the many pictures taken to work with.

Choosing Final Photos

The next step was filtering through the photos taken

from various photo sessions

and choosing the ones I wanted to use in my ideas.

ExplanationThe photos I have chosen from the photo-shoot would all be suitable for my ideas for the poster as I needed a group picture and a picture of two of the cast members mainly.

The costumes used in the pictures are also suitable as the outfits I am wearing in both versions represent the fact that Hayley was innocent and could possibly be seen as angelic due to the pale colours giving insight into the characters fate.

The lighting is also suitable in most photos with a few that are over-exposed but this could be adapted in the manipulation process.

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Manipulation 1 - Greyscale

I experimented with my first idea

by taking the group photos and

manipulating them by turning

my character (Hayley) grey to symbolise the fact she is no longer there. I attempted this

with two different pictures using

the colour replacement tool

on Photoshop.

ResultsBefore

After

Image 2

Manipulation 2 - Exposure To create my second

image, I need to adjust the exposure as

the image is too exposed due to the

artificial lighting. To do this I chose the

brightness/ contrast tool on the right hand

side.

To adjust the exposure I turned down the

brightness and contrast of the image using the sliders in the

tool.

I then wanted to get rid of the shadow and

insert a new background.

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Manipulation 2 – Removing background

Before creating the Polaroid for this

picture I used the quick selection tool to erase a rough outline of the background.

I then used a feathered erase tool to

soften the outlines and remove the

smaller parts of the background that I

missed.

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Third Image

Manipulation 3 – Removing Background

Before creating the Polaroid for this

picture I used the quick selection tool to erase a rough outline of the background.

I then used a feathered erase tool to

soften the outlines and remove the

smaller parts of the background that I

missed.

Creating Polaroid's

Creating Polaroid Part 1

The next thing I did was try to manipulate the new image into a polaroid picture. To do this I first had to find a

picture of a polaroid frame which I

downloaded from a website (shown on the

left).

Creating Polaroid Part 2I then had to open the picture into Photoshop along with my

manipulated image to combine the two.

Then using the move tool I had to drag the image into the

polaroid frame.

After that I had to use the transform tool to make my

image fit the frame.

Finally I used the eraser tool to get rid of the excess image

around the polaroid frame to make my picture. As well as changing the background colour using the fill tool.

To use it however I will need to crop the black background

from around my picture and add my desired text.

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Creating Second Polaroid

After opening the polaroid template again I used the same method as before to insert the background

(which is a location in the film) and the characters.

After that I had to use the transform tool to make my image fit the frame.

Finally I used the eraser tool to get rid of the excess image around the polaroid frame to make my picture.

I then used the colour balance tool to adjust the colour of both the

background and the characters.

To use it however I will need to crop the black background from around

my picture and add my desired text.

Creating Third PolaroidAfter opening the polaroid template again I used the same method as before to

insert the camera.

After that I had to use the transform tool to make my

image fit the frame.

Finally I used the eraser tool to get rid of the excess

image around the polaroid frame to make my picture.

As well as changing the background colour using the

fill tool.To use it however I will need to crop the black background from around my picture and

add my desired text.

Results

Background Manipulation

Manipulation 4 - FadeTo create the background of my poster I first had to open up the image of the Bucket List as this will be the basis

of my background.

I then used the brightness and contrast sliders to make

the image brighter so the words will be clearer to see

when I fade them.

I then used the saturation and hue sliders to bring up the lightness and fade the

list slightly so the words will still be clear despite it being the background image but it

won’t draw too much attention away from the

main anchorage.

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Result