Week 4: Photoshop Progress For My Movie Poster and Mood Board Completed

Photoshop Progress for my Movie Poster

Our final movie poster is to be handed in on Friday and as we are using Photoshop for our movie poster I have learnt many new skills in which will help me in producing the movie poster.

Today I have learnt about tools which help in making the subject of the image stand out from the rest of the image, which has a detailed background. The Magnetic Lasso tool is used for this and you simply move the tool around the image you wish to cut out. This cuts around the image you are taking out from the main image and gives the image a finishing touch, with smooth edges and the image has been taken out from the main image very carefully, and this tool is simple and easy to use.

I have also found out about the different font websites which I am able to use to create my ‘unique’ title font for my movie poster. These include websites such as Da Font, Cool Text and 1001 Fonts, all these websites create fonts with different effects, they are easy to use and create your font with the word you wish to use in a matter of seconds. My favourite font website is Da Font and I have created my Film Poster title on this website.

The other techniques which can bring focus to the main image are tools such as Hue and Saturation; these can change the image in colour and give the image an impact for it to stand out from the main image. Blur can also be used to help the focus be on one certain part of the main image and within Photoshop you are able to change the levels of the Hue and Saturation and the levels of Blur. This is good and effective as you are able to change the image to exactly how you expect it to be.

I have also learnt how to create Masking Text, which is where you are able to use the Horizontal Mask Tool to create a word or phrase out of an image, in class an example was shown of this and a word was created out of a Union Jack Image. The word is simply taken from the image and you can place this word anywhere within a document on Photoshop, I believe this is effective as if you had a very strong theme of some sort and you wanted to show this through every aspect on the movie poster, having a title with this effect will add and give the poster the impact of the theme.

Overall, through the process of creating my movie poster, I have learnt a lot of new skills and learnt short cuts on certain tools which makes Photoshop easier to use when you can press buttons for the tools. So therefore I have learnt how to set up a canvas and learnt a lot about how Photoshop works and the many different editing tools you can use within Photoshop.


Mood Board:


I have now completed my mood board with annotation for my creation of my movie poster and therefore this moodboard represents how I have created my Movie Poster including the colour scheme used and the theme is represented through the Mood Board.
Below is my finished Mood Board which is annotated and clearly shows the colour scheme of blue and green and represents the theme in of which my movie poster also represents.

Final Mood Board for my Film Poster: Annotated