Image Production and Analysis- Deconstruction of “Ferocious Felines”

My idea of Ferocious Feline came from my own home. I was able to photograph the scene of the dark, ‘spooky’ woods as well as the cat eyes. I chose this layout and idea simply because I knew I had the resources to accomplish my idea.
I started working at home. With my camera I captured the woodland area. I still wasn’t certain what angle or shot type I wanted, so I took a variety of different shots. Some extreme wide shots, wide shots and mid shots. I wanted to make sure I had all the possibilities at hand so that when I came to my complete decision I could adapt my photos to my work. I then carried on with my photography. Once again I took many photos so that I had the best possible one. It was hard to get an extreme close up of a cat’s eye, but later on in my project I was able to edit these in Photoshop. After grouping my resources, I was able to move on and collaborate all of my ideas.
I uploaded all of my photos on a computer and sorted through what I could see that fitted my idea. All of which where paradigm’s that would eventually produce my final product, the syntagm. I chose a mid shot of the woodland and a wide shot of the cat. I then opened Photoshop and placed my woodland photo landscape onto the page. Following this, I opened my photo of the cat and started to crop and edit it. Firstly, I used the ‘lasso’ tool to cut out the eyes. The original photo had a lot surrounding it that I did not want. I had to pick out what I really wanted and what I knew would make a better poster. I copied the first set of eyes onto the background (woodland.) I scaled them down in proportion to the woodland. The eyes had to be a realistic size to produce a more emotive response as a horror film. Once I cropped and placed the first set of eyes into the background I then kept repeating this process to eventually produce many eyes. I scattered them around the area, high in the trees and low on the ground to make you feel they are staring at you from all angles. I then started to change the colours and effects of all of my photos now that I had laid it out correctly. I made all the cat eye’s different colours, but mainly orange and ruby red’s to really stand out. In contrast to this I changed the saturation of the background to make it black and white. The dominant colours are the cats’ eyes. This has made a dramatic effect. I titled my poster right in the centre at the top. Even though this is not one of the hot spots I think placing it directly above the syntagm helped describe the poster. I used smaller font for the directors and producers name, as well as the film company. I don’t think this information is the most important so I kept it small that can be read, but not that it takes over the poster. Lastly, I added the slogan “You’re in, their out.” I strapped this along the gate, which is one of the hot spots. This, then not only stands out because of its’ position but also the attraction of the contrasting colour of font (white on black)
In conclusion, I found producing this poster a good way of expanding my creativity skills and thinking out side of the box. I had to create an idea that had never been thought of before and present it correctly that portrays the horror film that I had in mind.