Week 7 - Premiere

Today in lesson we were introduced to Premiere, a video editing software.

The techniques we learnt are;

Selection tool (this allows you to select certain clips for the overall video)

Track select (allows you to position clips)

Ripple edit (allows you to set the time allocated for a clip, e.g. if it's 30 frames long and you set it to 0.5s at 30fps it will play at double the rate)

Rolling edit (alloes you to allocate certain times in which the video starts playing)

Rate stretch

Razor (Lets you cut a section off of the selected clip)

Slip

Slide

Pen (allows you to set contrast levels and pitch levels and can be changed using the CTRL key for the gradient of the fade in, fade out)

All of these tools will be useful in making my trailer.


Brainstorming for ideas;

Black and white with "mad world" playing with clips from the other gears of war games.

Week 6 - Back cover



This is my currently finished back cover, i decided to go for a block red for the blood, as recommended by others, i have also aligned the screenshots in a more presentable manner, and also changed the Levels of the second screenshot to make it slightly darker to fit in with the other images.

 

 

I have also introduced a section for the legal notice (currently lorem ipsum) and an added logo of the series itself, to add believability, for this i added an effect for the outer glow to make it stand out against the background i also changed the levels to a red type rather than RGB and changed the setting to change it to red, this also changed the inner white to turn purple, i isolated this with the magic wand tool and made a layer mask and changed the colour overlay to white.

Week 6 - back cover

So far for my back cover, I have taken this image (the one below) and used the magic wand tool to isolate the whites on the image and to create a new layer to mask over it, and changed the white to black.

I have also used opacity on the original image to fade the reds slightly, but because of the mask the whites aren't affected anyways, I have also created a black background using a vector shape (square) and made it black just so the red isn't transparent on white (on paper, even though the background is transparent).

Image i have used

 

Hue/saturation 2 is the mask over the image, black rectangle to prevent any background overfill.

 

 



 

Week 6 - Own work

I decided to look up a tutorial on how to draw veins, to add the effect coming from the omen.

http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-spooky-eyeball-with-veins-in-adobe-illustrator--vector-16815

I only used part 3 of the tutorial to complete the veins for the image.

Week 6 - Progress (DVD inlay)

I have completed a draft for the DVD inlay, this isn't the final image and is open to major alterations.

Front cover;

used texture filter
removed cars using patch tool (trying to keep as much realism as possible, will change street itself into ruins)
spot healing brush for cars as well
added helos (for authenticity)
added in giant mega death ray (hammer of dawn)
changed contrast and brightness (main city image)


Back cover;

I imported images (screenshots)

Used magic brush tool to isolate whites and create a layer mask for the blood texture to turn the white to black

Changed opacity slightly to relieve the strongness of the red



Front cover images used;

http://blog.condooutlet.com/Portals/39212/images/imperial%20plaza.jpg

http://news.toyark.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/Erector-Gears-Of-War-King-Raven-04_1347050402.jpg

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090827070929/gearsofwar/images/b/bf/End_of_ez_world.png



Back cover images used;

http://d15uu3l1sro2ln.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/gears-of-war-2-screenshot-91-1024x576.jpg

http://s.pro-gmedia.com/videogamer/media/images/xbox360/gears_of_war_3/screens/gears_of_war_3_97.jpg

http://www.gameinformer.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Discussions-Components-Files/12/5516.gears_2D00_of_2D00_war_2D00_2_2D00_screenshot_2D00_3.jpg

http://lebstock.deviantart.com/art/the-gate-part-1-23216111

Week 5 - DVD label

I have added to my draft, a clipping mask so the edges over the bleed are gone, i have also done this for the BBFC symbol so any chance of overspill is gone, I have also used the paintbrush to add an effect on the Omen (scratches), I have also used a transparent circle to add a text wrap to the inner part of it to add legal disclaimers (currently lorem ipsum).

 

 

 

 

Things to be completed (Label);

Add in the white section at the top for the xbox 360 logo for consistency.

Change the lorem ipsem to proper text.

Change the font of the Gears of war : Emergence, and use editing to make it more unique.

Change the font for the Catstick Games.


Optional objectives;

Recreate the xbox 360 logo to remove pixellation

Recreate omen (although it's already as good as possible, it would be more worthwhile to do so, to pick up extra marks for the assignment)

After the main things have been completed my work will be shifted to the DVD inlay, and possibly the optional objectives side to the label.

Week 5 - Logo

This is the draft image for my company logo, this will be featured on my DVD label and DVD cover inlay.

I used the pen tool to create this from scratch, also used vector based rectangles for the colours, i have also added the border to add the effect of rust, i did this because i felt it was necessary to keep as much in common with the gears of war franchise as possible.

I have also used to text tool for the name "Catstick games" - this will later be changed to another font.

I also decided to have it mainly in white for the black background of the DVD label, but this may change for the DVD inlay.

Week 5 - Progression

So far i have completed a draft of the DVD label (not final version) and completed the draft of my company logo.

 

The draft of my DVD label.

 

 

 

The image i used for the disc label, I have photoshopped it to a black and white image using the black and white tool, I also added an outer glow (white) so it would be more noticeable on the label.

 

The image i used for the xbox 360 logo at the top of the disc, i just moved it over, i decided to add in the xbox 360 label to make it more believable and as an excuse to add in an image.

 

The image i used for the age rating, i decided to do this again to make it more believable and to use the Britsh version again to make it believable.