Movie Poster Construction

Starting to construct my movie poster, I opened Photoshop and created a base layer by laying down a dark green colour. I then selected the airbrush tool to get a smooth effect and gradually lightened the colour to a light bright green as I continued to draw circles getting smaller until I had achieved the gradient effect. I then scanned in an illustration I had previously hand drawn of a tree, took the background out and converted it to a negative image so that it was white. Changing the image size then and layering it in is how I achieved the first image, from there I opened up the poster for 'A Bugs life' and gradually tried to replicate the image. I had to zoom in with my graphics tablet to add in detail so that it wasn't just a basic drawing. 

Teaser Trailer Draft 2

Here is my second draft of my teaser trailer, I have added a few shots in but it still needs a lot of work in terms of build up and music.

Storyboard Planning

The Storyboard is a crucial element for me in the making of my teaser trailer as my film is animation so the storyboard will have to be visually pleasing and effectively intrigue people by the visuals, more so than the storyline. Today I was working on sketching out the opening scenes composition as I will have to work out every detail that is going into my film, as I am drawing it. Here is some of the sketches, featureing the establishing shout, with references to lighing, framing, mood and atmosphere throughout. (Apologies for the bad hand writing, couldnt get my ideas onto paper fast enough)

Teaser Trailer First Draft Construction

(follow up more detail from my last post)

Here I have put into place the first draft of my teaser trailer using Final Cut Pro software available on the Mac Apple Laptops.

I started my trailer by opening on a shot of the production team, using a formatted effect of planet earth and the text swooping in, a lot like the UNIVERSAL film logo, making it easily recognizable to the audience as the company that produced it.

I knew that the trailer had to be timed perfectly, so I altered the time of each shot so that I could showw as much footage as possible without a lot of distractions, as my animation storyline is a bit harder to follow than your common genre.

I then added inter-titles, manipulating the font so that there was a blue haze around it, to reference back to Avatar the movie, which the characters are made in an array of blue tones.

I tried to map out my teaser trailer before editing so that everything would be easily edited if i wanted to add effects or colour filters in certain parts.

I used the cross dissolve and fade to black in between each shot so that my teasr trailer would run smoothly and effectively, not straying from the Classic Hollywood Style of unobtrusive editing so the storyline is as easy to  follow as possible and the audience is not distracted by harsh dramatic cuts from shot to shot.

 
I chose the simple text layer that faded in and out quickly, then changed the font to manipulate it into my own style.

I tried to make sure at all points of the trailer that timing was perfect, especially the start so that the audience were drawn in and intrigued to watch more rather than glance at it and not be interested.

Fading into the cloud effect gave reference to many production company's, the most famous examples being either Dreamworks or Warner Bros. Not a direct copy as such, but a mimic all the same.

I added a stylistic looking background onto my title to give it an illustration like look.

I made sure that the text layer was placed on top to show it fading in and out.

On certain parts of my trailer I changed the saturation levels so that I could make some shots a harsher contrast between light and dark tones, which would then impact the emotive effect of the trailer.

After some shots being exported from Photoshop and acting quite slow, it was easy to speed up the frame rate using final cut pro. I customized the speed to make it perfectly how I wanted it.

When exporting, I saved the video out as a master file and then uploaded it to youtube, as the MAC laptops would not allow to publish straight to YouTube as they are restricted by school guidlines.

Pintrest Inspiration

I found these images earlier on pinterest through looking up "Old Man Face Illustration". It has sparked many ideas for my movie poster and magazine.

Teaser Trailer Construction

Here I have shown the processes used to create my teaser trailer. I started with opening final cut and inserting all of the essentials and work my shots in around these. I found a nice inter-title effect that had the earth in it, kind of reminded me of the universal studios production opening for movies so I decided to use it, as it would be recognised as a production company opening. I then called it Animation studios, as it fits in with the genre of fantasy animation.

I had to make sure that the timing was correct so I set up a timeline of a minute and worked back from that, inserting all the essential screens and inter titles first so that my structure was set up properly.

I edited in the inter titles using different fonts and manipulating the effects to fade in and out, making my work more effective and matching the emotive feeling I wanted the audience to feel, seeing as it is not aimed at children.

Animation Construction on Photoshop CC 2015

Here I have replicated my previous presentation on Photoshop CS6 except this time I have taken you through the features and extras of the new version of Photoshop in regards to constructing an animation. There is also a video at the end which helped me a lot in regards to making movement, Youtube has been a huge inspiration for me to create an animation and solve all of my photoshop problems in the making!