GRD-263 Assignment 12: Movie Poster
For this assignment, I knew I wanted to make something original, since it seems like every configuration and composition of people or faces has already been made into a movie poster. It took a long time last week to come up with roughs I was happy with, but I eventually came up with the idea for this one on my 6th or 7th draft. It took longer than I expected to find suitable source images for the composition I wanted, but I think the end result looks pretty cool.
-My initial sketch ended up looking fairly similar to what I finished with, only really changing the angle of the water and the positioning of some of the text.
-I started with a picture of the sky, which already had a nice directional light source. I flipped it, duplicated it, mirrored it, and layered the two of them on top of each other to get a full skybox.
-I then masked out a picture of a lake to the shape I needed, then copied, darkened, and moved the copy to act as a background for the waterfall.
-Next, I masked out part of a waterfall, and patched it along the edge of the water.
-The "door" is just a simple white rectangle with an outer glow applied.
-I masked out a picture of clouds taken from an aerial viewpoint and arranged them to surround the water.
-I then masked out a picture of a boat and scaled it to size, then did the same with the guy on the boat.
-To create the reflection: I duplicated the guy and the boat, merged them into one layer, flipped them vertically, moved them into position, lowered the opacity, then added a perspective warp and motion blur.
-I added the ripples to the water by making an elliptical selection of the area around the boat, duplicating it, and applying a Filter > Distort > Ripple. I laid the ripples back on top of their original location, and smudged and blended the water back together.
-Finally, I masked out some birds and threw them in the background.
-The font used for the title and tagline is Avenir.
Image Sources:
https://www.pexels.com/photo/atmosphere-blue-bright-cloudiness-412462/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/boat-sailing-on-body-of-water-2162651/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/aerial-view-of-clouds-258149/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/silhouette-of-bridge-with-two-people-on-side-of-body-of-water-2146943/
https://pixabay.com/photos/weir-waterfall-long-exposure-river-1903140/
https://pixabay.com/photos/boat-sunny-yellow-summer-water-981800/
https://pixabay.com/photos/mountain-top-adventure-hiking-984083/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/boat-sailing-on-body-of-water-2162651/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/aerial-view-of-clouds-258149/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/silhouette-of-bridge-with-two-people-on-side-of-body-of-water-2146943/
https://pixabay.com/photos/weir-waterfall-long-exposure-river-1903140/
https://pixabay.com/photos/boat-sunny-yellow-summer-water-981800/
https://pixabay.com/photos/mountain-top-adventure-hiking-984083/
