Main image on the magazine...

The image on the magazine was too much like a poster image, as you can see below.

So today i set about changing this. To begin with i increased the saturation, which made the image look far to orange and fake. Take a look...

I had a play around with the effects on photoshop, and in the end i came up with this...

Which i still didnt like. I thought the image looked too orange/pink still and the 'wind' effect as its called just makes the image look a bit strange.

After removing the wind effect, i made the image both colder and darker. I finished up with this...

This is the image as i will use it in the final magazine now. I think it words better as a magazine main image and doesnt jump out and detract away from the other features so much.

Slight change to the trailer

Today i changed the end of my trailer very slightly. I changed the music over the end part to a heartbeat because i felt that with the main soundtrack it confused the narrative slightly. With the heartbeat it tells the audience more about the story of him and his life.

titles....

I've decided to change to font and colours of the title. I feel that they dont accurately reflect the trailer, and in the same way they dont link to the magazine and the poster enough. Today i changed them to be more like them. You can see screen shots of this below.

These are the new titles...

and these are the old ones...

As you can see, i've changed quite a lot. To start with, ive changed the font of the writing 'alex coleborn' so it is the same as the text which is on both the magazine and the poster. As well as this, i changed the colours because i felt the red was too bright and didnt work well. I also added an effect to the 'pushing the boundaries' writing to make it look a little warn. The effect was called 'subtract'.
I've now added this new title into the final trailer and i thing it works a little better.

I thought id throw a screen shot of when i tried the red font in just to show you.

New magazine title

Today i changed the masthead on the magazine to something i am much happier with. Below you can see the old title and the new one next to each other so it's easy to tell whats changed.

Old masthead:

New masthead:

As you can see above i've kept the font the same and also the stroke. I added a new gradient overlay of red to add some colour and at the same time i added the drop shadow. As i mentioned in the changes, i added the drop shadow with no distance but a large range so it creates a sort of haze behind the text.

writing on the trailer

One of the changes i had previously thought about making to my trailer was adding more writing to the action parts. However, i have tried this and i do not like the product. I feel that the trailer works better if it is kept a little more simply without the extra writing.

I've uploaded one of the clips that i added writing to for you to see...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1KlzL5hsXI

You can also find my construction of it on youtube if you follow this link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FtZ72m8Uxk

As well as this, today i added in my final titles using final cut pro. I took a few screen shots for now, and then i will go into more detail in the construction documentary...

trailerrrrr titlesssss

Above are a few images that will be used in producing my trailer titles. They will be used along with a series of short clips to, hopefully, ensure the title is good. You will see how i make my titles in my construction documentary.

Complete Poster Ancillary

I've now made all the changes i'd like to, to my poster and here is the final product...

(please ignore the white strip at the top and bottom)

I've changed the title, moved the writing around and changed the font of one of the writing parts.

TV noise

I've decided that i will use a TV noise dissolve effect to start up the second action part of my trailer. Originally i had thought that i would just bring it straight back in, but after watching the trailer i feel that it doesn't really work. I took a few screen shots of me producing this earlier on today, and then putting it into the actual trailer in final cut pro. I used adobe after effects to merge the TV noise effect with the next clip.

I also had to source and create the sound effects for this TV noise idea, and i have some screen shots as seen below. I used soundtrack pro to do this and it was very helpful. It was very simple to make, i searched through the soundeffects in soundtrack pro to find ones that may work. After choosing the ones i liked, i mixed them together to create the desired effect.