Ancillary task - Magazine

I have started my ancillary task with one of the shots of Nathan Cole, I plan to use many style area of effects upon the page for the magazine cover as the main goal of a magazine cover is to attract the audience.

The need to establish the magazine’s name is needed and so for that I have used ‘Motion” for the front cover name. Motion has an inner connection with film and so that is the sole reason why I have used it as a brand name.

Nathan Cole (Matthew Bailey) has been proposed as my person for the front page due to him being the protagonist of the whole trailer. 

Other fixtures that have been put in place was to process Nathan Cole on the side to leave free space for the left hand side in which more secondary sidelines and titles can be placed in. I plan to recreate a whole black and white footage of him so that he would stand out from the cover.

Recreations of different sidelines stories will extend the magazine for other topics (targeting different audiences). 

Ancillary task

Photoshop Poster

In revelancy, I have decided to use the images from the Hong Kong palour for the design ideas.
I have used the nightlife of Hong Kong for the background as it seems suitable at sight due to that it fits the whole scenario and theme of the movie.

To which brings us to the point of the link between Hao Zheng and the scenery. We have decided to use Hong Kong as the place of Triads as it sums up the whole definition of nightlife. We need to establish the backstory of Hao Zheng and so we decided to use this scenery within Hong Kong as a hint of the whole flavour within the film.

The Nightlife brings brightness as well as the temporary sustain upon the whole mystery of the film.
While placing the Hong Kong scene as a background, I plan to use Nathan Cole (Matthew Bailey) for the front of the poster so that the audience can picture him as the main protagonist for the movie.
The stance that I directed for him to pose was that the gun should be pointing up high while showing his left side of his face. The Gun will add flare to the whole poster as it will grab the audiences attention to a degree as it mainly explains action.

In which leads to the effects that I have placed within the poster. I have increased the intensity of the background by a margin and have tried to blend Nathan within that background as it enhances the whole suspense and the theme. It adds a mysterious foggy mist to the whole plain poster.

At the bottom of the poster, I have generated a font out of the Photoshop and used it for the title of the movie (chasing the Dragon). The reasons why I have used this font is due to the fact that it captured my eyesight when I first scrolled through the many choices. The eroded effect typically adds that rough and tough flavour to the poster.

Ancillary Task Intro

For our Preliminary task, we have taken many consistent photos upon the main characters as we have all slotted them together for the use of our preliminary tasks. (Poster + Front cover of a magazine)

The shots were taken behind black/white backgrounds, while we all selected a pose for Nathan Cole. The poses are considerably the single most important feature to our magazines and poster design.

One of the many poses we decided to take shots of was with Nathan (Mathew Bailey) holding a gun and aiming it towards the left/right side. Judging the terms and style, we tried to add the flare upon the actual sequence by getting Nathan in character for the shoot. Side poses were taken as well as close up shots of his face to exaggerate the main character. In addition to that, pictures of me (Playing as Hao Zheng) where induced to the shoot as I was declared as the main antagonist in which does have the second most significant part of the movie on the whole.

More importantly, each shot we took was taken 5 times so that we could have a selection upon the best. All pictures were taken on the Camera as well as one of our partner’s I-Phone. The camera was always reliable at times and cam put onto a stand so that clear still shots can be taken in which acts as an advantage against the I-phone.

However, the I-Phone had more special effects put forth and could be used to increase or decrease the contrast and brightness. We used both for dramatic measures incase files would corrupt.

We will be editing the photos with our photoshop skills inorder to create our Poster and Magazine.

Photoshop Intro

Photoshop is a program that I have used before within my AS media design for the many multiple designs for our Magazine including the front cover, contents pages as well as the main two pages.

Photoshop is increasingly a famous program used for many features

While I have used Photoshop before, it is important that PS does require a lot of intensive skill to use. Upon taking in the previous skills from before, I plan to increase my knowledge of Photoshop so that I can use those skills for the present preliminary task.

Photoshop is one of the best rated programs in the world, the wide availability of its features allows a variety of styles upon my projects. It shall assist me to achieve the highest grades for my preliminary task.

Although I have a moderate amount of skill upon Photoshop, I plan to use Youtube tutorials through my way so that I will have an easier time with Photoshop. Youtube tutorials are an easy and faster way of learning how to use such programs like Photoshop.

One of the many examples of a Youtube tutorial are such like these:

With this tutorial, I have learnt how to blend two pictures into almost one, the effect has been used throughout the movie poster, the collaboration has made an neat fade away effect in which worked nicely to give that mystery to the main protagonist of the movie. 

I-Movie

I-Movie is one of the many programs we shall use to edit our video, although the program is bunched up with many useful features, it requires a moderate amount of time to study before usage.

We chose this program over windows movie maker due to its perks such as more effects and more styles to choose from.

The differences from using windows movie maker and Imovies is mostly upon the button placements and different techniques that must be applied before and after the project. 

Such techniques that we look forth to implement is flash at some of the clips to give a sudden jolt, this technique will also be used with the collaboration of the Gunshot. Due to our low financial budget, we cannot afford such props consist of fake blood and T-shirts, to create a realistic gunshot scene, we have all selected to create a first person perspective while enabling a couple of flashes to which will be synchronized with the Gunshots.

Fade in and fading out effects were at no doubt the one that was most referred with our group, discussions that have been made were upon how fading in and fading out would enhance the trailer from becoming a amateur movie clip into a professional viewpoint. 

Audacity

 

Audacity is a program that allows users to record sounds and voices upon input with a microphone. It is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.|

The deciding factor was to use Audacity instead of the regular windows sound recorder or Mac recorder due to its initial advantages.

Audacity allows the users to increase volume levels at particular times as well as fade or fade out voices upon activation. Such background music that is unneeded can be erased in order to create the perfect sole voice. More over, doubling the capacity of the sound at some parts allowed us to create a double echo within the pulse. Using double tracking allowed for elevation within creating the essence of a depressing and dark atmosphere.

It was interesting at first, messing around with the buttons and experimenting on various records. It gave me as an editor a visual insight towards the direction of sounds. After all of the theme songs had chosen by the members, thinning out the

Precise adjustments upon the audios speed while maintaining tempo was one of the many features we used to synchronize the gunshots accordingly to the clip of Nathan Cole’s outbreak within shooting Hao Zheng (first perspective of the gunshot)

Upon filming Nathan Cole’s voice, we decided to install Audacity and let him speak through the microphone.

Double tracking allowed Matthews voice to become more distinctive as it added character within the editing sequence. The echo at the beginning created the right sort of tone that we tried to look for. Although the recording was all done in one take, the lyrical needed rearrangements as well as cutting down due to that we didn’t really realise the actual length once recorded.