Media technologies played a big part in the making of my media product. We divided responsibilities and from my group I was left in charge of researching, designing and making the horror movie poster. The main piece of software that I used in designing the poster was Photoshop. For taking the image I used a digital camera and for the initial research I used the internet extensively.
In the construction stage the first thing that needed to be done was to create a useable image for the poster. I took the photo for the image by using a Canon EOS 400D camera. This is a digital single lens reflex (SLR) camera made by Canon in 2006. It took me a little time to get used to this particular camera as I don’t usually use SLR’s to take photos. At first I had the shutter speed at a really low setting so my photo came out really blurry but I found out how to change it and got it to the right speed that would work with the aperture setting. One big problem that I had to overcome was that the image of the killer was consistently out of focus; this was because we wanted the image to have low-key lighting. We found out that the shutter speed was too low (1/6 of a second) this shutter speed will only be used in a photo where moving light would be captured, also to get an image in focus it would have to be on a tripod or on a surface that does not move. This shutter speed makes the photo to too light as well, this lead me to making the killers face a bit smaller than originally planned.
The other piece of camera equipment I handled was a Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens; This is the lens in the photo on the poster, however it was featured more for its size than for a technical reason as it was the widest one I could find and therefore allowed me the largest space to place the image of the killer.
Probably the most useful piece of software that I used in laying out the poster and am still learning about is Adobe Photoshop. This piece of software allows you to edit images. Although my Photoshop skills are quite good I was still learning new things about the extent of the software and how it can be applied. One of the new filters I learnt to use was a cloud filter, this allowed me to make my image very spooky and I used it in my poster experiments. I also learnt a lot about colour schemes and how to have colour around the text.
Another vital piece of software I use was the internet for my research; Google is a search engine that started in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google images was the most useful thing about it as that’s where I could find images for inspiration, research, the conventions of horror film poster design, I was also able to compare images with my own poster design.
As well as Google I also used http://www.imdb.com/ (an online movie database) launched in 1990 by Col Needham, ‘imdb’ was good for researching film trailers at the start of the project for conventions and ideas. http://www.dafont.com/ (a font sharing website) Dafont is one of the best website to download fonts and find font, this is where I got the font (Liquid Crystal) for the title in my poster and the ‘Steel Tong’ Font for my credits.
In the construction stage the first thing that needed to be done was to create a useable image for the poster. I took the photo for the image by using a Canon EOS 400D camera. This is a digital single lens reflex (SLR) camera made by Canon in 2006. It took me a little time to get used to this particular camera as I don’t usually use SLR’s to take photos. At first I had the shutter speed at a really low setting so my photo came out really blurry but I found out how to change it and got it to the right speed that would work with the aperture setting. One big problem that I had to overcome was that the image of the killer was consistently out of focus; this was because we wanted the image to have low-key lighting. We found out that the shutter speed was too low (1/6 of a second) this shutter speed will only be used in a photo where moving light would be captured, also to get an image in focus it would have to be on a tripod or on a surface that does not move. This shutter speed makes the photo to too light as well, this lead me to making the killers face a bit smaller than originally planned.
The other piece of camera equipment I handled was a Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens; This is the lens in the photo on the poster, however it was featured more for its size than for a technical reason as it was the widest one I could find and therefore allowed me the largest space to place the image of the killer.
Probably the most useful piece of software that I used in laying out the poster and am still learning about is Adobe Photoshop. This piece of software allows you to edit images. Although my Photoshop skills are quite good I was still learning new things about the extent of the software and how it can be applied. One of the new filters I learnt to use was a cloud filter, this allowed me to make my image very spooky and I used it in my poster experiments. I also learnt a lot about colour schemes and how to have colour around the text.
Another vital piece of software I use was the internet for my research; Google is a search engine that started in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google images was the most useful thing about it as that’s where I could find images for inspiration, research, the conventions of horror film poster design, I was also able to compare images with my own poster design.
As well as Google I also used http://www.imdb.com/ (an online movie database) launched in 1990 by Col Needham, ‘imdb’ was good for researching film trailers at the start of the project for conventions and ideas. http://www.dafont.com/ (a font sharing website) Dafont is one of the best website to download fonts and find font, this is where I got the font (Liquid Crystal) for the title in my poster and the ‘Steel Tong’ Font for my credits.
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