P5

Task 16 - Finished Poster

How I did it:

Firstly, I picked my favourite image from my selections in my shoot I did. I picked this image:

And I used the quick selection tool to highlight the whole of the character, apart from the background. I then right clicked and clicked on 'Select & Mask'. I then softened the edge of the character slightly to have less of a harsh outline when it comes to importing a background.

Here is the image after removing the background:

The rest of the process will be explained through labelling.

Guidelines:

Task 17 - Evaluation

After write a paragraph on how the process from initial ideas to final product went, what did you find went to plan? what didn't? how did you get over changes you had to make, reasoning for these changes?

Overall, I'm happy with the outcome of my poster. I chose this design for my poster because of many reasons. Firstly, this colour scheme has been chosen due to the vibrancy and how they stand out to the audience.

However, after re evaluating, there are some clear issues regarding the male to female ratio in my poster. For example, there is a male as the main character, followed by three male names at the top. Therefore, I will now change this to make my poster ethically acceptable. Furthermore, I feel that the geometric lines in my previous poster very similar to this gave the poster more of a network theme, which helps the audience recognise the genre and theme of the film. I will now add the geometric lines behind the smoke, and I will change the names at the top to be more gender balanced.

Final image after review:

As you can see, I have now focused on the conventions and ethical side of my poster. For example, the network geometric design helps the audience understand that the film is about a hacker, along with the coded background too. I have ended up with this poster mainly from the mood boards I created previously, as I feel that doing that helped expand my ideas and to think more creatively, instead of doing a stereotypical film. More specifically, the game 'Watch Dogs' inspired me because of the hacker theme and thriller/action genre. However, what inspired me most the TV series 'Mr. Robot'. I brought this series up a lot during my production process, mainly because I liked the design for the different posters, and it was exactly what I was trying to achieve. This series had a unique look to it, different to other movie posters, using coded text as the background and a black hoodie for most of the posters. 

Poster on a bus stop (After review):

The colour choice was unusual as I never used blue and red once during the production process, however, I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6zFkVYMgWw, which made me want to use the blue and red colour scheme. I feel that this colour scheme would have caught the target audiences attention to my poster. The initial ideas started with the annotation of the movie posters, pointing out the key parts about them such as title, star billing and credit block. I say this because the Alex Cross poster inspired me to follow the same layout, as I found the order of the text aesthetically pleasing. After this, I made a mind-map, which was the most useful part of the production process for me as I came up with the hacker story idea during this task. I wrote a lot on the mind map, because they really help me expand my ideas into something unique. I found the mind map helpful because I could branch off different ideas to come up with new ones, making it a lot easier to have lots of different themes and genres to put together and make a story. Then I went on to the mood boards, which meant I could find loads of different movie posters, games, magazines, articles etc that matched with my genre and theme. This resulted in helping me push further into coming up with my poster idea, after seeing all the different colour schemes, text fonts and many other features. Then during the poster plans, I learnt how posters put certain images or text where they are to catch audiences attention, and where the audience look first at a poster. Then I found different fonts that suited me in preparation for my rough posters. I continued to study different fonts on real posters such as Alex Cross and Thor Ragnarok. I then decided on my title 'Social Virus', which isn't something I look back and think I should have done differently, but at the time I found it difficult to choose a title. I then looked at the colour theory - which helped me understand why certain colours are presented in different movie posters to express their genre and theme better to their target audience. Looking back at this, I definitely feel that this went well because I could find examples of movie posters that followed the colour theory, and inspired me to replicate the same colour scheme on mine. I then experimented briefly with photoshop, learning the basics when it comes to making a movie poster - specifically the features that I have never used before. I demonstrate some examples, which I feel went well, however, I should have saved versions as I went along like I did for my final, to show how I did it. The location recce, health and safety sheets and risk and hazards went to plan, and I made sure that all paperwork required for my movie poster was filled out and uploaded to my blog. The legal and ethical issues helped me demonstrate how I can create my movie poster without causing offence to others or more importantly - copyright from other creators, which helped me realise that all work has to be created by me. Therefore, the legal and ethical sheets definitely helped me realise the issues regarding movie posters. Furthermore, I would never have changed the gender balance in my movie poster without it, causing ethical issues. Then I started with my final poster, I took my final studio shots, and I edited multiple posters with each completely unique designs, to determine exactly what I wanted. And finally, I created my final poster, with a step by step demonstration of how I edited it in Photoshop. Overall, in my opinion, my final poster was a success.