Skills Acquisition:
I already had general knowledge about Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and I produced different work designs to increase my skills in these softwares. I also learned a range of transferable skills and techniques through a series of tasks using Adobe applications. I created a portrait of myself on Illustrator and also manipulated a photo in Photoshop to make it 'perfect'. In my proposal I wanted to make it look 80's style Sci-Fi and make it look realistic which I have achieved in my opinion. I wanted to show my cinematography style as well so I added shading to the actors and in Photoshop I made the back more colourful.
I created a poster in Photoshop using green-screen elimination so I took photos of people in front of the green-screen such as this one:
This helped me create better imagery and make it look more realistic because I was using real people for the poster/DVD sleeve. If I didn't use real people for the poster it would look fake and unrealistic.
Research/ideas stage:
I looked at different fonts and title names using a website and looked at the Sci-Fi category and had a thorough look at the different fonts and after looking round for a while I chose to use the font "Dodger' as it had a Sci-Fi look to it and reminded me of other Sci-Fi films such as; Guardians of the Galaxy and Blade Runner. Here is the font I chose:
The final title I chose was 'InFamous' mainly because the Playstation game series "Infamous" is one of my favourite game series of all time and also because I like the definition of the word, it means; known for being bad which fits the story of the film.
The story synopsis of the film is: "James, a robotics engineer was living a happy, normal life with his beautiful wife until one day she doesn't come home and James finds out she has been brutally murdered by a gang of bandits and is then framed for her murder and all the other crimes the gang has done. Gagging for revenge James leaves and goes after the bandits wanting revenge but his journey takes some unexpected turns along the way."
I also wrote about five different Sci-FI posters to give me a better understanding of what to put on my poster. I looked at the films; Looper, Pacific Rim, Guardians of the Galaxy, Edge of Tomorrow and Inception. From analysing these posters I noticed that they are all colourful and they all have the main characters on the front of the poster and that they all have a strong Sci-Fi background behind the characters to show they're going to be a mainly Sci-Fi style film.
The last thing I made was a proposal for the film idea to give to the teacher and also to use as an official proposal. In the proposal it included things such as; Format and Medium, The Sector and The Genre of the film. I found this useful because it shows I can plan projects in advance and be able to show that I can create a whole film and poster/DVD sleeve and make a form and medium for it.
Digital Design Stage:
To get the ideas for my poster and DVD sleeve I already had a rough idea of what I wanted the poster/DVD sleeve to look like, the main thing I wanted was a futuristic city as the background to show the audience it takes place in a city, so I Google searched for some and I found a city that is from one of the films I got my ideas from, Guardians of the Galaxy. The image was large and suited the background well:
The only problem with the image was the strange large object in the background, I didn't like it being there so I removed it using the patch tool.
The rest of the design stage I did as I was making the poster/DVD sleeve because I can picture it easier in my head than drawing it on paper or roughly designing it on a software, the only other rough idea I had was that I wanted the main characters in the middle of the picture and also have a large planet in the background. I Googled planets and found an image from the TV show Doctor Who, the image had the perfect planet to use in the background:
The planet in the background was perfect for the poster/DVD sleeve because it gives a better effect as the fading shows it is far away yet extremely large and was much easier to manipulate and change.
Evaluation of final design:
This is the final poster and DVD sleeve I made:
In my proposal I aimed to make the poster look dark yet colourful to give it a unique look and give it a 1980's-1990's look. My target has been achieved because I chose a Blade Runner looking font and put a white background behind it so it stands out more and gives it that 1980's-1990's look. I also wanted to make it look dark yet colourful and I achieved that by colouring the city a dark blue colour and making the sky colourful to give it that look I wanted it to have. To show it is a Sci-Fi based film I added the Millennium Falcon, a large planet and a futuristic city so the audience are certain it's a a Sci-Fi movie. The Millennium Falcon is (in my eyes) the most famous spaceship in movie history making it so iconic to Star Wars and film fans so having it on my poster will catch their attention and will also prove to them it is going to be set in space or a distant planet because of that ship.
The poster compared to the sleeve is different in many small ways because on the sleeve all of the studio logos and official labelling is at the back so the front can look more appealing to the public and will catch their eyes when looking at different DVDs. While on the poster all of the official labelling is on the front because it doesn't have a second layer to put them on.
I placed the main characters in the centre of the poster and DVD sleeve to show they are the most important people in the film. The facial expressions of the main characters are serious looking to show the audience they are going to be serious and mean business. For the lighting I put a light to the left of them so half of their face is dark to show the darkness of the characters and also the darkness of the film. The body language of the characters are stiff and bold, they are holding guns, this is all to show how serious the film and characters are going to be.
Faults:
By mistake I rubbed out part of the tall building in the background and I couldn't fix it so to hide it I added a large explosion. The explosion also makes the poster look better because it shows the audience the film is going to be action-packed.
The summary of the film at the back of the DVD sleeve is too long, the sentences have a large gap between them and gives it a stretched look when it should be closer together to give it a better look.
One of the areas on the Millennium Falcon is slightly rubbed out and coloured in but is very hard to notice and I couldn't do anything about it because I didn't notice it until near the end.
At the back of the DVD Sleeve next to the reviews I accidentally rubbed out some of the poster and I couldn't undo it and then I added a colour to the background and it made it stand out even more.
