Production Scheduele;

I have now finished the blue section of the production section.
We had to complete this so we can next get on with creating the DVD menu using our final DVD idea.
Today i looked more in to iconography and what it means. This will help me with my work, colour schemes and Final ideas once creating the menu.
Looking at background, titles, camera angles and characters will all help with creating the perfect DVD menu.

Final idea for DVD menu;

The final idea for my DVD menu was to have a moving image on the screen/ a slideshow of images. The images are going to blend in and out of each other fading as they go and layer each other. I will be taking the images myself. I havent yet decided whether i am going to crop the background out them or not, or whether that will make the images look to sharp around the edges.


I had three ideas for different genres for DVD menus. In the end i've decided to stick with Drama/Thriller.
Below are the three ideas i came up with for the genres Horror, Drama and Childrens Animation.

The above DVD menu idea was for my drama thriller. On this one i choose to do quite a detailed layout for the menu but this isnt my final idea.

The one above is the genre of Horror. As i wasn't to keen to do a horror i wasn't sure of what to have in the background so i just put a simple skull.  

This one was a children's animation DVD menu so i went on the internet and the first thing that came up for children was a teddy bear so i decided this was going to be be one of the main themes for this menu. I was also going to make it slightly more girly as my teddy bear was quite boyish so i drew a flower which in the end became an idea for the main button of the DVD menu.

Looking back over all the different designs and looking at movies at home i enjoy the most, i came to the descision that i wanted to do a drama/thriller.

In the end i've chosen to do Drama.

DVD menus on adobe encore;

At the beggining of the week we went on encore and had to create a file with our name and start understanding how to create a dvd menu. We had to upload a movie and link it to the first option on the menu. It took me a few attempts but i did it in the end and today again we are doing it and it took me 5 attempts, not finding it very easy to understand atm but hopefully going to be able to move on to the next task. When looking at the project errors i had a few come up but they are ones ive not yet completed so i dont think they are too much to worry about. I had to make sure the end action was set or the rest of the project wouldnt have worked so its a good job i doubled checked. I have completed the first task in the booklet hoping that everything is fine and there arent any errors.
Task 2; we had to organise our projects by putting them in to seperate folders called menu and one called timeline.
Task 3; Understanding properties panels?
Task 4; i would have to have the booklet in front of me to be able to do any of the things.
Task 5 is explaning in depth how to use Encore with Photoshop and how to use layers and connecting things, its abit confusing to say the least.

Research For Article;

Today we are doing an article teaching people how to put images on photoshop and making sure they are the right resolution and format for printing and on screen.

We first looked at the different image formats including Jpeg, Gif, Tiff, PSD and BMP. Then looked at there compression, colour, format, how they print and see if they pixelate.

We then looked at raster and vector images seeing which one was better to use for what format and which was better quality. The vector image was clearer and no matter how big you made it the image wouldnt pixelate. Each image was made with lines but the vector was also made with curves which makes the image clearer.

The image below is showing the differnce between the two, and the Raster image is pixelated when you zoom in unlike the vector image.

Week Three;

Today we looked at how to create a contingency plan for our product.
There are three options including Pre-Production, Production and Post-Production.
We have to find Potential Problems and how to solve them, this is called Resolution

Research For Movie Genres - Drama

Today we had to research three different movies from the selected genre we choose. I choose Drama so i decided to do an older movie, new realease and one from 2005.
The last song is a new realease and one of my favourite movies with lots of interesting camera angles that will help me when i create my dvd trailer and animation.
One of the pictures i got from the movie was;

DVD POSTER

Today we finished our posters off in class.

When i was looking back at my notes and moodboards there were similar colours to what i said i was going to use being pink and red. As i decided to add a sunset there was also yellow and i edited the sunset with hue and saturation to make it pinkier and red more than orange so it would link to my moodboard and notes.

Here is a picture of my finished poster.

For it to come out at the right quality when printed we had to save the resolution as 150 and the type was CMYK. We had to save the image as a jpeg.

We have to save it this way or the colours and quality of the image wont be as high as its shown on the computer and may even come out a different colour.