DIY Horror Poster (introduction to photoshop)

After the lesson with Matt on how photoshop works, we were given the assignment of making our own horror poster.
My horror poster mainly depicts a girl being hung to the right hand side of the syntagm; I decided to place this here as it is the second place your eye is drawn to according to the rule of thirds. I wanted the eye to notice the paradigm of the stairs first, because the stairs are dark it makes you focus more on distinguishing them which then leads to curiosity.
The paradigm of the dead girl is a full body shot, I wanted it to be made clear the state that she was in, almost set the scene, but also leave you wanting to know how and why she ended up like that. In addition to that, in post production I added a green tint to the corpse as green gives me the signified of asylums and dark dingy places. Moreover, her top was originally white which would have been juxtaposition to the dark background and would have drawn more attention to her therefore the attention on the stairs would be lost. The clothes that she is wearing suggest that it was not a suicide as she is wearing normal everyday clothes and perhaps not expecting it. Around the corpses neck, I have faded out a a rope, the reason I decided to make the paradigm faint as is it signified spirits and ghosts.
As for the title of the film, I decided that I would place it in the third place that your eye is drawn to, giving you time to take in and analysis the paradigms first before noticing the title. I decided that the title of the film was going to be called “the room”, although the words are not scary it makes you wonder and lead to curiosity of what happens within the room and what is looks like. Furthermore, the film title is lighter than any other paradigm in the syntagm not only does this cause the title to stand out but also is a juxtaposition to the dark paradigms. The typeface of the slogan to me has connotations with a typewriter which to me is the signified of hospitals and asylums.
After photographing the stairs I realised that I had shot them at the wrong angle this meant that I had to a lot of work in the post production, I even had to clone parts of the stairs and reconstruct them in certain places, this left the stairs looking slightly odd, but I like this as it adds to the quirkiness of the horror genre.

Me and my friends ( or the lack of )

So... as you can see, this is a photo of me and my two best freinds. Kendra to the left and bridget to the right. This was a photo shoot that we had to do for the Girls of the Playboy calender. This photo is a long shot. It is a studio shot, ths therefore means the lighting is artificial. In the rule of thirds, kendra is in the first hotspot, bridget is in the second and the logo for the calender is in the third hotspot, this makes the logo stand out as it is the only text on the page.

Working Shot (on the rare occasion I work)

This photo was also taken on the photography trip, but i think that is made quiet clear by what I'm doing in the photo. This is a full body long shot. It shows me edditing the apartue of the camera as the light was so bright and defused. In this photo there is too much head space, (I could of croped it, but I didn't) plus in my opinion I love the colour of the sky as it is a rareity in England to have weather as nice as this. Also having negative space around me informs people more of my surroundings and where I was, (in a poppy feild by the sea in Brighton). The reason for the tripod was attempting to capture landscape shots and make a panorama.

Self Portait

This is picture of me. I did not take it my self I may add. It was taken on a school photography trip down in Brighton. As this was taken, I was stood in the middle of a poppy feild and although you can not see it the see is behind me. This particular photo is a mid shot and is taken at eye level. I have to admit I can't remember what I was looking at but by looking this photo it was something either in the distant or something I was trying to distinguish as I look terribly confused. The light in this photo is defuse light, it was such a sunny day that day as I remember drifting off to sleep while basking in the sun.

Introduction

Well hello there
so I'm going to state the obvious, my name is Gina and I am studying AS Media Studies. I decided to choose media as it ties in well with my other subjects and plan on going on to study it at University. So far... I'd have to say media is awesome, but I'm sure over time it will become much harder and a little tedious (worth it of course). Have to say I'm not all too sure what to write when I am assigned a task to write a paragraph about myself, but here goes; so aged 16, female, brunette (well mouse brown), blue eyes and not too tall. Things i like; i love nothing more than to sit down at night before I go to bed and watch a movie, prefer it if its one I haven't seen before but never the less nothing like a bit of Bridget Jones or Johnny Depp (excellent eye candy). I am also a real music freak. But that's enough blabbing from me.

Catch you soon.
xxxx