Alex Simpson

PHOTO EDITING

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

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

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

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

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

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

After adjusting the noise levels in the editor, I simply just added it to background of my protagonists creating

the background I wanted.

BACKGROUND

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

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

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

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