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Kianna Briggs

My role within the team was to edit the images taken using Photoshop. I chose this role within the group because I felt that out of the people in my group I was more interested with the technical side of the project. As well as this I also designed the presentation in which the images would be viewed on.

Although my team followed the storyboard given to us we did adapt the storyline so that it would be more interesting.These are the key points in which we added to the storyboard:

•Changed the main character from a male to a woman

•The woman was a prostitute preparing the death of her next woman

•She has recently killed a previous victim

•Her current victim walks in on her preparing a gun

•This is where the audience realise what she does and how her next victim is going to die

This is one of the images that I edited using Photoshop. One theme throughout the presentation is black and white. This is because due to the fact that the genre of this project is horror I felt that black and white would create a more sinister effect.

Original image Final image

In order to edit this image I first opened it in Photoshop.Due to the fact that the theme I chose for this project was a black and white theme, I then had to change the image to black and white by:

• Selecting “image”

• Then “adjustments”

• Then black and white. As a result of this the image changed to black and white. However this image is an important image within our story board as it is supposed to represent blood therefore although I was following a black and white them I still had to create blood on top of this image.

This is the second step in which I took, where I used “liquify” to blend the colours together which enables them to look almost as if they were part of the image as appose to simply painting on top. This brush allowed me to blend the colour together creating a blurred effect.

I then selected “Filter” and chose to “liquify” which would allow me blend red paint on top of the image.

This is the final step in which I took to create a more realistic looking blood. What I did was darken the red so that the colour changed from a bright red to a more sinister type of red creating a believable effect.

Original image Final image

I have changed this image slightly by simply cropping , changing it to black and white and also adding a red brush stroke to the image. I have done this to highlight that the next victim has been targeted so that the audience know he is about to be killed which creates tension and horror emphasising the genre.

In order to edit this image I simply opened it up in Photoshop. •I then also changed it to black and white.

• However when I was doing so I noticed there was a problem with the image in which members of my teams reflection were in the tap.

• As a result of this I then cropped the image so that this was no longer visible.

Regarding this image because the victim has been allocated I decided to highlight him by the use of a red spot which created a sinister effect as that is all that is highlighted within the black and white image.

Due to the fact that the image is reflected in the mirror I also had to ensure that the red spot that I created was also reflected in the mirror.

This is another image that I edited. I also changed this to black and white and used the same blurred red effect on this image as I have done on the others.

These are all the images that I simply turned to black and white:

Reflection

In doing this project I have learnt a lot about my role within the team. For example when editing the images on Photoshop although I have kept a theme of black and white throughout and used a red spot to illustrate the important aspects of the image, I think that there could have been a higher rate of consistency regarding the red spot. Although I was creative using a red spot, I still think that the shade of the red was not consistent throughout which could have been quite confusing for the audience therefore making the storyboard look less realistic.

Although this was the same image but different shot, there was not a lot of consistency regarding the colour. For example this red has been darkened whereas this red hasn’t. As well as this I think that I have blended the paint a bit too much.