Week 6: Update on Encore and Update for my Final Idea for my DVD Menu

Today we learnt more skills within Encore and today has really helped me in understanding fully the tools within Encore and how you are able to organise folders within Encore. I used Photoshop to create a test for the main page for the a menu and I learnt how all the layers within Photoshop create the Menu with images and buttons to be imported quickly into Encore.

Some new skills which I learnt included:

• How to set up the Film and Video Canvas within Photoshop to create the page for the menu.
• Learnt about the limited space within the canvas and that there are blue lines within Photoshop which show where your text or images may not be seen within the screen.

New Terminology for Encore:

Place Holders: Thumbnail boxes which act like boxes within a scene selection menu, these allow you to add images and film clips into them to add to the DVD Menu.

Through using Encore today it has helped me in understanding the programme in more detail and I was able to recap on the work from last week to make sure that I still remembered and therefore I was able to move onto the next stage in the book to help develop my skills within Encore.

Encore Logo

 Update of Final Idea:

I have written my proposal for my final idea and this included all of my ideas which surround my DVD Menu, these include font, colour and layout, all of this information including designs and skecthes of my different DVD Menu Pages and shows the Client my ideas visually and they are all explained through the Proposal. This has helped me in understanding how I can now start about the creation and visualise the final DVD Menu and how I imagine the menu to be. From all the research and designs into the DVD Menu I can now concentrate on finishing the research and make sure I have good knowledge to show my understanding for Drama DVD Menus.

The next stage for me to think about is the sketches for my final design and the images which I will be taking for the DVD Menu, these are important for the menu as they do help suggest the genre and theme of the movie and show the originality of the DVD Menu.