Week 8: Update of DVD Menu Within Photoshop

I have put my images into Photoshop and I have started to create my final DVD Menu, I have used the features which I have shown through my research and ideas, including the font, images and textures. Through this week I have created a mood board which represents my DVD Menu and shows the textures and fonts which I would take forward to use within the DVD Menu, I have also represented other existing products which I have researched and I believe relates to both my genre and theme of the DVD Menu.


Within Photoshop I have been able to create the menus for my DVD Menu, I have used all my original images and have placed them into Photoshop and started to create my DVD Menu. Through creating the templates I believe the menus all link together well and to me the menus are starting to look like a DVD Menu, as I have used all the codes and conventions which I have gathered from my research.  I have used all my new skills and research to create this DVD Menu, new skills in Photoshop have helped a lot and I feel a lot more confident in using Photoshop in a more advanced manner and I am able to edit photos and create an effect with the photos which I have taken myself. I have also learnt how to use existing objects to create an effect, within my DVD Menu I wanted to use frames around the images on the main menu and on the Scene Selection Menus, and I used a mirror which I believed would link in nicely to the genre of the DVD Menu, and this is a rustic style mirror and I was able to capture an image of this and edit it within Photoshop to change the colour of the image and create the frame for the images to be placed inside.

Below are some screenshots of my DVD Menu pages within Photoshop.




Screenshot of Scene Selection Page 1

Screenshot of Scene Selection Page 2

Overall I am very happy with the progress I have made in starting to create the PSD's for my DVD Menu and I am looking forward to placing them into Encore for the whole DVD Menu to come together and work.