. TEXT CHOICES

I used the website Dafont.com to create the text for the film poster for our trailer ‘The Chain’. The most appropriate text was ‘Birth of A Hero’, and this was chosen because of the details that surround the text itself which if made red could appear to be effectively interpreted as blood splatter. This is exactly the idea that I had and therefore I chose to recreate it on our poster.  Because the ‘splatters’ are so small I did find it was a little harder to change the initial colour, however when selecting one I used the ‘select similar’ tool so that I could speed up the process of editing the colour which had been sampled from the poster’s title.  

Dafont.com has a text generator, and once I found the text I wanted I print screened it and then pasted it using a shortcut (C+V).

To the left you can see that the print screen of the webpage is on the plain Photoshop template, with this I was able to use the rectangular shaped tool to cut out 'THE CHAIN' and then i right clicked and selected the option to 'layer via cut'. This allowed me to cut the rectangle containing the text itself to a new level without having to worry about not cutting the text out right or losing the layer I put it on as the layer it's cut to is is the most recent layer created. The benefits of creating a large amount of layers are that you can tease and reposition elements of construction without drastically changing anything until you're ready.

 After creating a new layer via the short cut found when I right clicked inside of the box used to select the text and background I wanted to edit, i was able to resize the text using shift so that it wouldn't become pixelated.







After resizing the text and background, I was able to use use the 'magic want tool' to select the white background behind the black text and remove it.












I then used the magic wand too again to select the text as I needed to change colour of the text. this tool allows me to select each letter all at once. I then found the appropriate red that related to the blood iconography used in the narrative. to change the colour of the text i used the keys - CTRL + Backspace. Below is a before and after of the colour changing process.