{FILM PRODUCTION} ~ Evaluation ~ Peer Critiques.

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{Analysing my film poster}:

{My Power Point}:

My Film Poster Analysis.pptx

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When I was editing my film poster in Pixlr E, I was really happy with what I've developed with the dual lighting, (especially creating them in different angles such as cross hatches, sideways, ups/downs etc), quick selecting, learning how to add layers, import fonts for text, using the curves/exposure levels, add dramatic filters, add shadow to give it a moody/scary and suspicious look, being able to feel confident with dodge and burn to lightly smudge dark areas to make the image more high contrast and look even more mysterious-like. There are some some tools that I still need to feel confident with, like importing types of brushes, but other than that, I was able to learn something. I'm extremely grateful and shocked with the talents I have developed throughout this unit. I was able to get used to the editing software's that were extremely new to me, even though I re-encountered some site errors along the way, I'm thankful that I was able to still try something new. Now I'll be able to edit/create something I've never had in mind/creating an idea. From the feedback I have received in class, I assumed that I got a lot of strengths because I included the main flavours that would be on a thriller themed film poster. I only got 2 weaknesses, which was only for typography, which is the release date and to use a different thriller-styled font for the title and credits. As you can see on the poster, we can take a look at the release date to start off. It's sort of difficult to focus/make out due to the red glow, caused by the strong sense of the blurred radius in the font and style, which makes it even more hard to visualize. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make that steady foundation, since throughout editing, I thought that after you completely finished, that would be it. So to summarize my problem clearly, when I was finished with my film poster, I uploaded it to my blog and removed it off Pixlr E, because I thought that we didn't have to do anything after that. So sadly, I wasn't able to improve my weaknesses that I was given. However, what I'm stating now, is what I was told to do instead of improving my weaknesses, in other words, what I should have done to improve this.

(You can tell I was internal screaming when I kept crashing with this error):

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In my film poster, I took some inspiration from the film 'shutter island'.

{Here is the poster}:

As you can see from the shutter island film poster, I've managed to get the dark, bluish turquoise, storm filter for my main image and added a couple of highlights and shadows to it as well. Brings out the emotions of how a character is truly feeling and I wanted to do something similar to that. I has brought by the strong influence of the font titles as well, especially the tag lines. I loved the way the title 'shutter island' is bright and glows to make it seem attractive to the audience. So I did the same for my title, but instead, I wanted to use my own idea from it. So instead of making my title white, I chose the colour red instead and added a strong radius of red behind it as well to make it look more interesting. Of course, I didn't really include the same font style since I want to be able to produce my own creativity. So I went on Dafont.com and downloaded the font I wanted, and appropriate for a thriller film poster. In addition, I chose my colours to be black and white, because they show darkness and the way we feel, but more importantly, black and white can be used to be changed thematically, providing atmosphere, tone, and visually providing a strong and sharp contrast and a dreamlike view of their world.

Furthermore, I think my poster is really breath taking, because as you take a look at it from your perspective, you can really feel that sense of darkness crawling down your spine, which can make you feel that uneasiness feeling, when something isn't right or, you already know what's going to happen throughout that. Your eyes are suddenly fixed onto the girl's facial expression, can suddenly give you the impression of frightening hallucinations. (In other words, what scary images come into your head when you look at her from your perspective). Moreover, the typography can also make that steady foundation of a thriller film poster in my opinion. You can zoom in on that specific title and you actually get an impression of how she is deeply feeling about herself/Maybe showing her that she's angry. I mean, from the way the title is placed and presented, it can give us an obvious understanding of what might occur in the film.

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WWW ~ As I kept being active within the software, I began looking at tutorials to help me along the way, so I took dual lighting for a test run, because I found it pretty inspiring. I've started to keep practicing dual lighting, remembered the following steps on how to do it, and before I knew, I suddenly became confident. I came to the point where I would just mess with the colour palettes to see which colour suited well for a thriller themed film poster. Furthermore, I got used to adding/merging/grouping layers, image files, adding/editing/importing text, adding moody filters like blues, reds, whites and I even started getting used to brightness, contrast, colour balance, hue and saturation, curves etc. I had a lot of fun with Pixlr E and hoping to do it once again in the future. Since Pixlr E was similar to Photoshop (software I found difficult) I think I'll be able to get used to it now, since Pixlr had the same layout and tools.

EBI ~ I could have tested Pixlr E out even further, instead of using the same tools twice. For instance, I could have learnt how to import brushes, blending images, add special effects etc. In the feedback and evaluation, in the future, I will remember to improve my weaknesses by saving the film poster on Pixlr before it starts crashing. I'll be forever grateful if I learned a couple of more techniques to make my work just like on everyday film posters, which is one of my #1 goals throughout this semester.

{FILM PRODUCTION} ~ Analysing Typography on Thriller Film Poster

{My Power Point Document}:

Analysing typography.pptx

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{FILM PRODUCTION} ~ Film Poster ~ Technical skills ~ Photo-Pea/Pixlr

{My journey through making my Film Poster}

{Softwares I have used}:

https://www.remove.bg/upload

https://www.photopea.com/

https://pixlr.com/

https://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=110

{YouTube Tutorial that helped me along the way}:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnX0gn6hJ-M

{My journey}:

I managed to drop my image file into the software. At first, I was going through some errors along the way, but I suddenly found options/easy ways to add them in.

I went through some predicaments/errors with the software itself while I was trying to resize my image to the exact ratio I wanted. As a result, it turned out pretty ok. For me as a beginner, I wasn't really expecting myself to go this far through editing. Although, being able to cut the background out with Photo-Pea is a skill that I mostly need work on.

{Using Pixlr instead}:

I've now added a black, abstract, smoke background to the main image so I can set the mood and match it with my story line. So, you can see there's a black void merged with the white smoke which creates a very monochrome styled atmosphere.

Now you can see that I've sort of tipped the background upside down since I want everyone to see my whole entire head, what I look like, who am I, who I am as a person and with the black void merged with white smoke, I thought it would create more tension if I changed that. So from white to black, it's as if it represents 'good to bad'. See people don't know what's going to happen along the way, like on the outside of me, I may be good, but on the inside, I am a monster.

I also changed my image adjustment, so it's matches the same background filter. So you can see that it's more of a dark, blue-ish colour and the shadows makes it more realistic too.

Now you can see that I've added quite a bit of shadow to the face, so it just gives everyone a 'puzzled' expression on their faces. Actually, it gives people a chill down their spines because you can see the photograph of me just staring at them, with the sharpness in my eyes, and adding shadow and a bit of highlights to it, just makes them want to know more about this character in person.

I had an idea of what I want people to see me as. For that, I would need to transform my eyes into something frightening that would drag a lot of people's attention to, using the 'zoom in button' and then I will be able to edit the eyes a lot easier instead of doing it still zoomed out.

{Here is what I mean}:

(For zooming in or out of the picture/Viewing part/Focusing on which part you want to edit)

I used brushes for the pupils, so they can stand out a bit brighter. I also decided to make my brush smoother and a bit smaller, to make it more realistic.

I wanted to create a dual lighting effect, like another part of me is cursed, so I added another layer, went onto the 'gradient tool' Shortcut: G), I made sure that the type of gradient I was using is 'Linear'. I clicked on the 'gradient bar' and I wanted to make the dual lighting have more of a smooth transition in the middle so it doesn't appear as light to dark to light. The colours I wanted to choose was black to red, since the film poster is based on thriller.

For each of the colours I have chosen, I decreased the 'opacity' for each of them, because in the end, the poster would be too bright, probably would look eye-blinding and it would be way too much. I can use the arrows that were already a part of the gradient tool to know where I want the colours to be placed.

So after I sorted out the gradient for the dual lighting, my cursor should be in a shape of a cross, and I clicked on the screen one time while holding shift down, and would mark where the lighting will be positioned. Also I got rid of the harsh, red lighting by decreasing the opacity level.

{Finished editing main image}:

{Typography}

Font Ideas:

{Process}:

Adding text to my film poster.

I added another layer for the text, since I don't want everything to clutter in one. By using the 'text' tool, I went to 'add local font'. In other words, it let's me import fonts that I have already downloaded, instead of using the ones that were already in there.

(The font I am using)

With the font I had already downloaded, I changed the colour scheme to red to represent the blood effect that's dripping down. I also attached a warm, red blur to the shadow as well, to make it more moody and freaky. I almost had the idea of adding an outline to it, but it didn't really turn out well, so I have made the decision to leave the title at that.

I also have taken the liberty of adding a PG logo, to make sure that the audience is aware of who should be watching this. I've even darkened some parts of the head as well, to show that my hair is creating shadow over that part or something covering it up. In addition, I included a bit of highlights to the layer.

{Result}:

{Feedback}

{Improvements}:

(Studying layouts of film posters)

{Result}:

From the feedback I have received from my teacher, I have included a 15+ logo to represent the horror genre and who should be watching it. (Changed it from PG to 15 since we don't normally see PG rated thriller movies). Furthermore, it's also to make the audience aware that there's going to be some sensitive scenes which may occur along the way. I also added that dark shadow to my face to make it seem more realistic and making the audience (who are interested in horror films like these) feel that horror vibe.

In addition, I have also attached the typography for the film poster (text) in a creepy, blood red, sans serif font to make the poster look even more interesting. Also, I added a faint, red shadow to the text, as if it were glowing to drag the audiences eyes, to make them aware of what the film is about.

For the weaknesses I got from the class, I needed to improve on my typography. The release date at the top needs to be changed since it wasn't clear enough to see.