Week 8: Photos Completed for My DVD Menu

Throughout half term I have completed and generated my images which I am going to use within my own DVD Menu. I have thought about the images in advance and I had thought about the theme and genre of my DVD Menu to influence the images which would feature within my Menus, this included the theme of Fashion and a True Story, Drama. The images which were generated were mainly images of the main character as then the audience are able to get to know the main character and as this is a True Story, Drama, DVD menus which are similar in theme and genre are also similar in the type of images which are shown within the DVD menu are mainly the main character.
Some of these images included:

• A winter scene in the woods and surrounding scenery such as fields, which with the costumes and the winter scene represents the theme of fashion and also the theme of the True Story.
• Images of the main character, close up images, and these various images will be featured on each menu.
• Images with the main character with fashion related accessories and clothes, as therefore this lets the audience know about the theme and genre of the DVD Menu.

Most of the images which I have taken for the DVD Menu feature the main character, the reason why I chose to feature the main character within most of the images is because from my research into existing Drama DVD Menus such as The Devil Wears Prada the images used within menus such as Scene Selection feature the main character, as this is who the film is about and this shows through these images which are used. I used the main character as I believe that the DVD Menu theme and genre show through by presenting the main character and as the DVD Menu reflects a true story this lets the audience get to know who is in the film and clearly highlights the main character and what she may be like within the film. As this DVD Menu would be based around a true story within existing products they present the character in this way as you are able to get to know the character through these images from the film itself.

Below are some of my images which I have taken.

I have also started to edit my images and place them into templates within Photoshop in the template for the DVD Menu and the menu itself has started to look like a DVD Menu and the pages look similar to each other and work well with each other.