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Photoshop- To create my poster i will be using photoshop. Photoshop helps to customize or create your own pictures and can be used in posters for example the crime drama poster.

The tools used

Rectangular Marquee Tool (M)

Use this tool to make selections on your image, in a rectangular shape. This changes the area of your image that is affected by other tools or actions to be within the defined shape. Holding the [Shift] key while dragging your selection, restricts the shape to a perfect square. Holding the [Alt] key while dragging sets the center of the rectangle to where your cursor started.

Move Tool (V)

Use this tool to, well, move things. Usually you use it to move a Layer around after it has been placed. Hold the [Shift] key to limit the movements to vertical/horizontal.

Polygon Lasso Tool (L)

Ok, this should be the Lasso Tool, but I use the Polygon Lasso a lot more often. Use this to draw selections in whatever shape you would like. To close the selection, either click on the beginning point (you’ll see the cursor change when you’re on it), or just double-click. When holding the [Ctrl] key, you’ll see the cursor change, and the next time you click, it will close your selection.

Magic Wand Tool (W)

Use this to select a color

range. It will select the block of color, or transparency, based on wherever you click. In the Options Bar at the top, you can change the Tolerance to make your selections more/less precise.

Crop Tool (C)

The Crop Tool works similarly to the Rectangular Marquee tool (see above if you have no short-term memory). The difference is when you press the [Enter/Return] key, it crops your image to the size of the box. Any information that was on the outside of the box is now gone. Not permanently, you can still undo.

Slice Tool (K)

This is used mostly for building websites, or splitting up one image into smaller ones when saving out.

Eraser Tool (E)

This is the anti-Brush tool. Erases whatever information wherever you click and drag it. If you’re on a Layer, it will erase the information transparent. If you are on the background layer, it erases with whatever secondary color you have selected.

Linked Production (Continued)

I found out the measurements of creating a standard billboard poster. Here is the image of the measurements of the poster.

I have also looked at different styles of crime drama posters. The ones i have looked at are The Wire, CSI and Flash Forward.

The Wire consists of different types of designs of posters. One i looked at was a simple poster which had the Wire in a particular font which looked like barbed wire as the font. This kind of font makes the poster stand out because the font type may relate to the drama which may contain barbed wire e,g, a prison secured with barbed wire. There is a rule of three with the colours. The colours consist of black, red and white. This makes it stand out and makes the poster more appealing towards audiences. The Wire aims at an audience who enjoy the theme of realism of that currupt police officer that you may find in some police officers.

CSI consists of different posters that link to the type of season or series that they have. This poster thay have used has the main cast layed out on the top of the poster. They have the CSI font in a type font which is recognisable when you see this font. It connects to the effects that they used in the crime dramas. They have some images e,g, the magnifying glass, the location which shows it's in Las Vagas. It includes a rule of three. The colours are green, black and blue. These colours work well because they may symbolise the colours of the police sirens when they are flashing.

The Flash Forward poster is the the most appealing. The poster has an image of a sphere which could represent the globe and is broken down into smaller images. The main images are shown to us whereas the other images are still inside the shape of the sphere. The heading 'Everyone In The World Will Get A Flash Of Their Own Future' hooks the audience because they want too see if this is able to happen. The title 'Flash forward' has a different style of font when the 'F' from the forward joins with the H and a bright light appears. People may think that looking forward into the future is possible by the way they have used the title. There is a rule of three on the colours. The colours used are white, blue and yellow.

The progress made with my poster is that i have created an outline and all i need left to do is choose the kind of style i want it to present and the images which will be a side view picture of the detective and the serial killer. The images will be positioned face-to-face to each other as if the detective and the serial killer are directly looking at each other. This represents a clash between the good guy and the bad guy. The colours are still yet to be determined.

Comparison

My poster will have similar techniques used from the three posters I have looked at. The way the Flash Forward poster is used by using the globe as a main image will be used as little snippets of the image. The poster i am going to make may have the same style of CSI and a bit of The Wire. This would make the poster appealing because it doesn't have one style throughout the poster it will consist of different styles used by different posters used e,g, The Wire and Flash Forward. The colours I am going to use is still to be determined but they will be similar to the colours used in CSI and Flash Forward. The title of my crime drama will be exactly like the way they have used in the Flash Forward poster.