Monday, 12 January 2015

Trailer Magazine: Cutting Out Feature Picture

This is the picture I wanted to be on the front of my magazine.



I then had to cut out the background of my picture so that it would correctly fit in with my magazine background. To do this I had to select "Magic Eraser Tool". By doing this deleted all the background, leaving the picture roughly cut out.



















After the picture was roughly cut out, I zoomed in and rubbed out all the rigid edges, making it smoother and when zoomed out in looked a lot neater.
















After going round the whole of my picture and making it smooth and even, I copied it onto my magazine. This was the end result.

Thursday, 8 January 2015

Trailer Magazine: Background

I wasn't completely sure what I wanted to do with my background of my magazine, so I played around with a few images, and decided that this was the image I liked the most. I also liked the mis en scene of the colours in this picture, as I thought the girly pink linked with the contrast of the dark black, showed a happy and dark side, just as it does in my trailer reflecting on Grace's life. 











I then dragged the background out so that it would fit the back of my magazine. 


























This was my end result. 

Monday, 8 December 2014

Trailer Magazine: Creating The Masthead

The first step I done when creating my masthead was uploading the correct font design "Arno Pro" and selecting the correct font size to fit on my magazine, 150. 


















This is what the "Cineaste" part of my headline looked like after I had made these adjustments. 



















I then fitted the correct font and size to "The" at the start of my headline.




















This was the end result. 



Thursday, 4 December 2014

Trailer Magazine: Masthead Trial



Masthead Trial
The first thing I felt needed doing when I started on my trailer magazine was deciding on what I was going to call my magazine, in which I decided to call it "The Cineaste" which means someone who is very enthusiastic about the cinema or is into film making, so fitted in well with my magazine. I then went on to decide what font I could put my masthead in. From this, I went on and trialled some fonts and saw which one I preferred. In the end I decided on the top font on the picture which was "Arno pro". I decided on this font as I wanted my masthead to be quite naturalistic due to the genre my magazine and trailer were. However, I then went on to decide what font I wanted to put "The" in. I decided that as "Cineaste" was in a rather natural font, to do the "The" in a more handwriting font, in which would still make it slightly naturalistic but also give it a different and more exciting feel. I decided to go with number 3 on the picture below, this is as it looked "handwritten", was clear to read and also made my poster and masthead look extremely fancy and professional, which was my intention. 




Monday, 1 December 2014

Trailer Poster: Credits

These are the credits that I have put on the bottom of my poster. This is just letting the audience know who is in the production and who directed/ edited it etc. 

Trailer Poster: Tag Line

Next, I decided that my poster was to plain. So I thought about adding a tag line saying "Pain is real, but so is hope". This tag line I thought was extremely necessary and meaningful, as it links to my film so well. 



















 I then decided to try out a few different fonts, as I wanted the tag line to be a little bit more bold, exciting and different than the headline. 




















I then decided to use the font "Benny Balnco" and the font size 32.






















This was my end result of my tag line.

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Trailer Poster: Cutting Out Feature Picture

I started by uploading my image to my Photoshop document. 























The next step that I needed to do was cut out the background of my picture, so that it would fit nicely onto my poster background. To do this, I had to select the "Magic Eraser Tool". 




















    

After I had roughly cut out the background of the picture. I was left with the picture of my main characters on the plain background of my poster. However, some of the edges of my picture were rather rigid and untidy, so I decided to tidy them up.














This is when I zoomed in on certain points on my picture and used the "Eraser Tool" to go over any uneven parts. 













This is what it looked like when i zoomed in. As you can see around the hairline, there is still a little bit of the background that I originally cut out, so I used the Eraser Tool to go around the whole of the picture and make the edges smooth. 








Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Trailer Poster: Feature Picture


Shooting Poster Feature Picture
I decided for the picture on the front of my poster, I wanted Grace and Jake (the couple that fall in love) to be starring. Although I hadn't yet taken my picture, I knew exactly how I wanted it done. I wanted Jake and Grace to be cuddling, with Grace resting on Jakes chest with her eyes closed, whilst Jake's chin was resting on Grace's head looking upwards.
Once I had taken the picture, I was very happy with how it had turned out and it was exactly what I wanted it to look like.




Trailer Poster: Feature Picture

Feature Picture Lighting

Now that I have decided on the background of my poster, and there is a stream of light coming down from the left hand side, I have more of an idea of how I am going to place my actors when I take the picture. I have also planned to have a bright light shining on them from the left hand side, so that my picture with blend with the background, which will give it more effect.

Trailer Poster: Editing Background

The first step I had to do when creating my background and making it fit my poster was to upload it. Once I had uploaded it, it uploaded as a very small picture behind the headline. 






















I then dragged my picture and made it adapt nicely to the background of my poster. 

























I then decided that the blue sky background looked to plain on its own, so wanted to blend something else in with it. I thought that stars would look effective and link nicely with the genre, so I uploaded a star 
background over the top of the blue sky background.






















I then changed the opacity of the star background to 40%. This way it started to blend with the blue sky background.
























This was my end result.

Monday, 24 November 2014

Trailer Poster: Background

Black background with bright stars.


Bright blue sky with big sun.

Autumn Leaves.

Trailer Poster: Creating Headline



After trialing all of the fonts out on the magazine template, I decided to go with "Saginaw".
I decided to go with this font due to it fitting well with the genre and also it was "handwritten" like which is what I was intending to use.

I began by selecting the "Saginaw" font.



I then made it the correct font size to fit correctly onto my poster.













Trailer Poster: Headline



Designing Headline
I began starting planning ideas for my magazine poster and started off with testing all different fonts for my headline "Grace". Whilst going through all of the fonts on the programme, these were the ones I decided I liked the most and I think would fit nicely with the genre and theme of my poster and trailer. Now that I have narrowed it down to these, I am going to create my poster and try out all of these fonts to see which one looks the best, when fitted with the picture and background also.