AS Media - Film Title Manipulation - Silent Killer

The brief:

- To create a new typography for our film that is somewhat related to the scenery

My inspiration was whilst on the bus thinking of how the foggy window panes could be used as a basis for the typography for our film

After searching for a picture I found the one below and chose it for my experimentation.

After this I chose a new background for the window pane so that it add more colour and depth to the piece.

The help video that I used was - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S893jAVHP3Y

I chose the picture above also because it is an establishing shot of where our film starts.

First I started off by opening both of the photos (above and below) in Photoshop.

After this whilst holding SHIFT I dragged the photo of Loose Valley onto the picture of the window frame, keeping it centred on the page.

After this I resized the photo using CMD + T to go on the free transform and holding SHIFT whilst resizing to keep the pixels from blurring.

Then I selected the layer of the photo of Loose Valley and added a Gaussian Blur filter onto it.

After selecting the filter I changed the pixel blur to 10 and pressed ok to set the blur.

Then by clicking the icon (Right hand side) I converted the layer into a 'Smart Object'

Then through the blending option box I changed it to an overlay so that it would sit behind the window pane.

It ended up looking like this after.

 After this by using the text tool and parameters below I typed in the title of our film.

It ended up looking like so.

After this by using CMD + T to go to the free transform tool and I slanted the wording by rotating it slightly.

After this I went back into the filters and chose the Liquify filter.

After this I needed to rasterize the type.

Then it brought me to the Liquify page where the smudge tool is automatically set.

I changed the brush size to suit the size of the font to the parameters below.

After moving several parts of the text around it came out looking like this

Then I turned the blending settings to overlay so that it would, like the picture of Loose Valley, sit behind the window pane

After this I felt that the green of the grass in the background seemed too vibrant so I changed the opacity to 80%

After this the text then seemed a bit too prominent so to even it out I changed its opacity to 85% so that it looked more correct.

The final outcome is below:

Self assessment:

Positives:

- The design is original

- The photos and text blended well together

- The streaks made with the Liquify filter are realistic

- The water droplets on the window pane make the photo look more authentic

Negatives:

- I didn't get to use the font I originally planned to use as I was not able to download it as a font into Photoshop

- The top part of the image could be said to be too bright

Below is the font I wanted to use: