Tuesday 07th October 2008

Tuesday 7th October 2008

Film poster challenge.

For homework, you were asked to collect 5 film posters.
Your task for today is to recreate these posters using your own photographs and , if desperate, “stock” images from flickr.com.

*Part one choose the poster you are going to attempt to re-create.
make a basic sketch of the composition of your poster and what objects you need to complete it.
PHOTO-JOURNALISM TIME! armed only with a camera, you have 20 minutes to go out and collect enough photographs of people and objects to recreate you poster (remember how useful textures such as rust and concrete proved last week)
BE CREATIVE, BE INVENTIVE!
When you have all your images, upload them onto your desktop create a new folder called poster
Open a new document in Photoshop (apple & N), this should be A4 size 21cm wide, 29 cm high, 150dpi
Open one of the images you have collected (Apple & O)
select the polygonal lasso tool (L)
Carefully draw around the object, press enter when you have finished.
Copy the object (apple & C)
Click on your new document. Now paste (apple & V) the object into place.
Name your layer
To move / stretch the object, press V and make sure the “transform controls” box in the tool bar is ticked
Repeat this stage with selections from other images
Go to image>adjust> brightness/contrast to make the images match each other and fit the mood of your poster
You might want to try turning the image into gray scale or inversing the colours
If the poster you have chosen has a distinctive colour scheme, go to image>adjust>colour balance. By selecting “shadow”, “midtones” or highlights and sliding the faders to the colour you want, you can change the hue of your image.
Don't forget to save your work every few steps (apple & S)