Blog powerpoint poster development2
- 1. By using dafont.com I was able to look through various fonts from different genres that would help fit the stylistic elements needed on my poster to make it work. In my first draft I used quite a basic one but as I progressed I found one called ‘Angel’ after changing it to ‘Black Crow Woods’ I believed it fit in with my theme and looked the part. I then placed it into Photoshop and inverted the colour to fit onto my poster. Once I had the font, I could place around the layout and position the photos onto my poster on Photoshop that I had took for my first draft in order to get a feel for how I wanted it to be structured. I used a lot of tools to help blend everything together as you can see from the eyes and the trees in one. Each item on this toolbar helped me produce something that can be used for my final drafts. I believe I used each bit of technology from still cameras to Photoshop to the best of my ability.
- 2. Once I had learnt how to fully use Photoshop, I could follow the rule of thirds and edit my photos accordingly. The photo below is of my main antagonist before I used Photoshop to change the contrast and colouring. In my second draft I developed on this and followed a tutorial on how to make my antagonist have believable blood shot eyes. By using the opacity button, I could change the visibility of the image to fit into the poster how I wanted. This involved the blending tool again where I got a picture of some cracked earth on google, I then blended the corners into the eyes and changed the opacity, finally I went over the cracks with a light red colour using the brush tool. Once I made all of these changes, I went back to the rule of thirds to make sure everything was structured according. After getting feedback from my peers and teacher, we felt the eyes didn’t really well. I felt all of the skills I had used would help me move onto my final draft and produce a high standard horror poster.
- 3. I finally progressed onto my final draft, although I haven’t made that many changes from my previous draft, I did decide however to change the blood shot eyes to a scar. By using the previous technique of blending, I got an image of a scar and blended into the face. I then smoothed round the edge and by using the brush tool traced over the scar with the colour red to give it the impression of blood , another problem I had was the font for my title block, after finally finding one that proved to not look too ‘sci-fi’ it gave my poster a more creepy sense. Finally by using the move tool I placed my tag line below the central image as I thought it drew the attention away and crammed everything in. After this was done and my new production logo was in place I had created something that now looking back was of a good standard.