Photoshop Effects

Many of the effects that I have used upon the  task include the exemplar materials and features of different effects and styles.

Note paper effect

I have used the Note paper feature upon the Image of Nathan (Matthew Bailey) as it turns the whole of image into a black and white portrait image. The use of effect creates an aura of mystery around the characters image as it is seen similar as a replication of a shadow. The whole style adds a lot of character and curiosity onto the page. Using this effect will attract the audience on the whole.

 

 

Stained glass effect

As from my previous works, I have used the stained glass effect a numerous amount of times due to my liking upon the style. The stained glass feature creates a surreal pattern that gives the textbox more character as it also doesn’t distract any other of the surrounding text or pictures. The colour used was bright orange with a hint of washout at the end of the right hand corner. The washout was brought in to lighten the orange due to the original shape being too distinctive.

 

Background works

Although a grey stylish background may seem dull and unattractive, most of the images and the other shapes and colour residing within the whole page made up for the sustain. The deciding factor that I planned was that the background should not standout more than the other text features.

I took notice that if both the background and the other images had bright colours, the contrasts between both would absolutely clash with one and another thus creating a distorted magazine within its final outlook.

 

 

Text boxes and shapes

The texts boxes used within this magazine was round ovals placed on top of each other, however the colour would have a distinctive washout with regards to the following ovals.

I used ovals for as the textbox shape due to it's simpleness unlike the other counterparts such as a square or an rectangle to which was too sharp for my liking.  The round ovals leads the reader to the middle of the ovals which was my sole intention at the start. The colour used was orange again as I tired to keep the house colour the same throughout the magazine.

 

Text, colour and text sizes

The text font used was main Agency FB in bold, The selection was made due to the style not being too formal or informal. The text can be read clearly as the text size remained as 23.22 PT, just large enough for most of the audiences to look at upon reading height.
A consistent text font was used through the sub-headings but other texts that was valued as more important stood out in a redish font colour giving it a more distinguished prospect in comparision with the other texts.

Main headers

The font used in the main headings was called defused, the reason I chose this style of font was because its inital collabaration with our movie trailer theme (ganster and crime). The 'Defused' font gave the text more substance upon themes such as destruction, erosion and a hint of distortion.

The colour used was black and white within the eroded sections, this allowed a suitable and distinctive contrast between the orange textboxes and shapes.

 

Finalized Project:

 

 

 

 

 

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.