File Formats

How to use Photoshop: Photoshop is full of little tricks, which can help you create the picture you want. A quick tip on how to use it is by opening Photoshop, clicking a picture if you want to go straight to editing or if you want to create something from scratch you click on ‘new’ from the top tool bar, this will come up with a white canvas where you can perform what you want.

If you are looking to create a new layer, you sort of perform the same steps as you would when creating a new page, you click layer at the top and add new, you can then number them in order or name them to something that’s to do with you project, totally your choice, to duplicate the later you right click the layer on the side of your screen and click duplicate, as simple as that really.

If you are looking for a custom colour that you want to make, you can click on the colour and swatches tool that gives you the options to modify a specific colour and save it for future work, it’s located easily as you soon as you open Photoshop on the right of your screen.

If you’re looking to add text onto your project that you are making, you can click on the ‘T’ tool on a side toolbar where you can then click on it and select it wherever on your screen, from here you can then type whatever you desire into the text bar, if you wanted to add colour the text you can then click on a colour tab where you can change it to a desired colour.

JPEG:

JPEG is a file format, which you can have the option to save your picture as, JPEG is usually used for coloured and digital images, it’s the most commonly used file format for digital cameras or photographic image devices.

GIF:

GIF also known as (Graphics interchange format), A GIF is a graphical image that moves, typically seen on some web pages, there are also animated GIFS that none stop move, they repeatedly make the same pattern over and over.

PNG:

A PNG also know as (Portable network graphics) is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression, it is known as the most used lossless image compression format on the internet, the file format was designed for transferring images across the internet.

PSD:

PSD also known as (Photoshop document), is the default format that Photoshop uses for saving data, when saving a image on Photoshop it’ll come up as a default format straight away but can easily be changed, it’s a different kind of format that is only Photoshop based as it is a independent editing software which uses tools like layers and image flattening on it.

AI:

Adobe illustrator is best known for creating graphics, artists and graphical designers mainly use it, and they mainly use this to create for example a company logo or a new sports team logo, and promotional poster for a project they maybe be working on. It’s not only just used for graphic purposes it can also be used for illustrations and charts, for people who are new to the software it will be initially hard to understand form the begging but learning from it can gain you very beneficial information for future projects.

TIFF:

TIFF is a computer image format for storing raster graphics images, it is used by graphical artists and mainly people in the publishing industry, the format is supported by many various image manipulation applications like desktop publishing, faxing, 3D applications and medical image applications, the format can be ranged in many classes like, the common ones, grey scale, RGB full colour.

RAW:

A camera RAW image file contains data from the image sensor of a digital camera or a image scanner or a motion picture film scanner, the reason they are labelled RAW files is because they have not yet been processed for print. Usually they are converted through a raw converter and then conversed into a positive file format such as TIFF or JPEG.

DVD cover

For my movie poster i wanted to make the back different but similar to the front, i added the same background to add the transverse effect so it didnt look dodgy, also on the back i added blood stains to show what the movie is really all about, i wanted to add the dark effects of what the movie will be introducing to the viewers watching, also you can use this as a idea for the films rating, to show why it's really a 18+ movie, also the slur on the back, i wanted to have a slur that introduced what film was about, and becasuse it says 'keep your cards close' intends that this movie is about gambling, it gives the purchaser of the dvd something to think about as theyre begining to wathc the film, on the DVD sleeve i added the barcode, the maker of the film, and actors, directors, and producers in the film.

Evaluation of my movie poster

Poster evaluation

My idea

In my plan I had proposed a plan to design a movie poster based on gangs and gambling, I wanted to stick to my roots and base the film idea in Manchester, I chose this due to the city having some rough parts which I thought may suit my concept of what I want to do.

The genre I thought would suit my movie would be Action, the reason why is because it involves a lot of violence and contains scenes in it which in the real world would be classed as illegal, the films rating would be 18+ due to bloody scenes and large amount of violence and drugs, I would class this as a suitable age limitation for the movie.

How I planned out my poster

When thinking of a plan for my posters overall design I wanted it to have a black, white and grey colour design to show it has a sort of murky and moody depth to it, I was hoping this could show viewers of the poster that it is a very dark movie.

The next design I added was the title, I initially wanted to call my film gambler but then I reckoned it was too bland so decided to call it pariuer which is the French meaning for gambling in which my opinion seems to have a bit more of a kick to it.

After I found the name for my poster I then went of “dafont.com” and gathered numerous fonts which I thought may suit the posters overall look, I then came to the conclusion of picking ‘Porter Bold’ which gives the poster a mysterious look about it.

‘Porter Bold Font’

Moving on from the design prospect of my poster I then went on to taking photo’s for my movie poster, I used ‘Caleb’ as my main model on the front cover, due to his physique I knew he’d make the perfect fit for my movie as when he put on a mean face it came across as intimidating which was one of the points I was aiming for when planning my movie poster, I then went on Photoshop and edited out the white screen in the background and added a grey/black layer over him to fit the posters main colour scheme.

When making my poster I wanted to base it off a gangster film I had already seen, I used the film ‘lock stock and two smoking barrels’ as a prime example of what I could base my film off, the film is heavily gambling/gang related, it shows different storylines of individual characters on it which I wanted to include into my poster, I wanted to add a muggish theme with a dark scale colour design as the main goal to aim on my poster to give it a rough and edged up look, how I did this was my going into my colour options and picking  dark colours which I then write down to give myself a idea before I actually went to design it all.

Before planning my poster I was aiming to give it a lot of bright colours to make it stand out and was thinking about adding a lot more patterns to the poster to give it the star factor, but coming from this I knew it wouldn’t fit the idea of a ‘gangster’ like film, it just wouldn’t be right, so I added the dark scale instead as a idea and it suited more to my plans on making the poster.

Professionalism

I think my level of professionalism in making the poster was good; it took me a good few days to do it compared to weeks, I really got my head down when planning and designing the poster, but being honest I know this poster wasn’t my absolute best work, I know I could easily achieve better, but this is something I can look at in the future as something to look down on.

Areas For improvement

For improvement wise, I would have liked to add more images and a vibrant dark colour scale pallet to my poster design, from my prospective it looks very broad and too dull, even though I could say dull was kind of my aim in the poster, it’s something that looks a bit ‘over the top’ dull as it just looks really basic.

Problem solving

A problem solving technique I encountered was my mac crashing, when it crashed the work I was doing reset and it made me re-think my whole plan, I didn’t change every idea in my plan but changed a few things to give my poster a better look to which it originally was when first making my poster.

How is it aesthetically?

I’d say my poster is aesthetically pleasing to look at if you’re into gangster related films; it definitely gives off the vibe of a gangster film if you were to look at it, it has the dark muggy look which to me pleases me, it’s a goal which I aimed to achieve in my poster, so yes, overall I’d say it’s aesthetically pleasing.

Is it appropriate to a audience?

I’d say yes it is, I gave my film a rating of 18+ due to violence and drugs within the film, looking at the poster I think you could definitely tell it is, it gives off the vibe of a dangerous feeling, as I gave the character muggy looks and a dark feeling as it looks like he his violent, at lowest I would lower it to a 16+ as I think that age is quite suitable I think so anyway.

This is my plan for my movie poster, i have written down idea's i may think are beneficial when coming to make my movie poster, not all the idea's on the sheet are guarenteed to be added into my work but most are potential.

 This is a design i drew of my poster, i planned to change this throughout my
making of the poster by making minimal changes to it, i didnt add colour due to it only being a design.

 And this is my final design, done on photoshop, as i said i made minimal changes to the poster and have added a more darkerscale colour scheme, i have gave it a gnagster-ish look by making my actor look threatening.

Poster 2015/16

For my movie poster i went for a very classic look to the theme of it, i wanted to make the poster feel thugish/gangster like to show the impression that my movie is all about that, when making the poster i wanted to add a more colourful scheme to make it stand out but changed my mind to a darker colour scheme to make the poster look more to it's original value, i also went with the idea of adding a eagle eye veiw of machester to show the representation of where it is based, for my final part the tital, i wanted to make my film about gambling but because it sounds boring and un-original i decided to translate late it via. google translate to 'pariuer' meaning gambler in french, to me this little change is something that has improved my poster signifficantly.












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