Creating a Lightning Effect

Using Lightning Effect, Lighting Effect, Pen Tool and Blend Mode

I had a scene of the house and wanted this to be more eye catching and so it can draw the attention of the audience, to really bring a horror like sense to the trailer as usually rain and thunder is associated with horror and often used in trailer. From being a fan of horror films and watching a few in my time I know a lot of the horror conventions and this is one and I wanted to include this into my trailer. The scene to begin with had little lighting changes to look like lightning but not much, I thought instead of creating a whole new lightning effect to a clip which didn’t have any lightning like effects. Before I could start creating this I made sure that this was possible, looking at the different effects that Photoshop provided, I found a Lighting (Video Effects > Adjust > Lighting Effects) one which changed the brightness which will come in good use when I have the strikes as the lightning in the sky needs to change. I also came across another effect which was called Lightning (Video Effects > Generate > Lightning) which I looked at created the lightning strikes; this was exactly what I was looking for.

To begin creating this effect I copied the clip and placed this in the above layer and went in video effects and changed the Blend Mode to Linear Dodge which gave the image light and a darker blue earthy look more like a sky with lightning would. When I applied the Lighting Effect I changed the light type to Omni.

I changed the position of the lighting change, it is near the house. I could have changed this at different points in the clip but I wanted this to remain in the same place. Lightning affects parts of the sky sometimes, I made sure that I didn’t have the lighting to bright as this would look to fake and unrealistic. On the lighting effect I also changed the radius of the circle which the lighting changes and also the intensity of the lighting.

(Before)

(After)
The before photo is when I applied no lighting effect and the after this where I did.

You may notice in the image provided I created a Black Video but this wanted black, I changed this to Screen on the Blend Mode. I created this so I can apply the Lightning Effect to it; it’s like a different layer. To this I applied the Lightning Effect and changed the size and position of the strike to go downwards rather than across, there was lots of other options such as the speed that I changed. I used the Razor tool to cut the clip up, I used this tool because it was the easiest tool and it cut exactly where I wanted it, from looking at the line. I cut my clip as I deleted some parts where I didn’t want the lightning strikes to continue throughout the clip as this is would not be realistic so I cut the bits I didn’t want the strikes like where the lighting effect didn’t take place and then deleted this. Doing this allowed me to change the positioning of the strikes only slightly, because naturally lightning strikes change position a little. This also meant I could change the positioning of the lighting to be where the lightning strike is.  

Finally using the Pen Tool, one of the simpliest tools on premiere which can be used to change the brightness of a clip very easily. I did this to the actual footage of the house, the one which I didn't apply any effect to. I placed pen points and this changed the brightness of the clip which made it dark at some parts just like a lightning with rain would.

 

 

Creating a Vignette Effect

I wanted to create a vignette like effect for a clip I have which is of the house as the car approaches the driveway. I thought creating this effect would take the focus from the car and more on the house. The vignette effect creates a border that fades in from the edges so that the attention is drawn to a particular part of the image/clip such as the house. Below is an image of the raw clip with nothing applied to it.

This is the kind of effect I was going where the deer is the focus of the image, it keeps the viewers eyes on that part of the image. 

To begin creating this vignette effect I created a "black video" (New Item > Black Video) which creates as the name says a black video, I placed this on the video layer on top of the scene in the length of the video. I could continue and feather this and create a vignette but it would be square and I didn't want this so I came across a video effect with the name "circle" and applied this to the black video (I have not made any changes to the actual clip) which created a circle out of the black square previously. At this stage it had a small circle which was black and the rest was of the scene, this was opposite to what I wanted but I inverted the circle. The circle was really small so I changed the radius of the circle, I did it enough to hide the trees from the frame and the car. You may notice that the circle is not exactly in the centre either, I wanted to hide the car from the scene, I tried to fit it to the shape of the house also. I then feathered the edges which made the circle less sharp and was more faded. 

This was when I applied no feather to the inverted circle. 

This is like the after when I changed the feather settings as in the other one no feather was applied to it. As I like the look of this I may do a similar effect to another part of my trailer. 

Looking for Audio

Looking for the audio and using the right audio is the most important part of the creation of this promotional video as the audio sets out the mood for the film. This process is key to the success of this promotional video so a lot of thought needs to go into this. To begin with I looked a number of “horror soundtracks” back to back; there was video that was 30minutes long which played soundtracks from famous/popular films. I looked at existing horror trailers to see what kind of mood the audio had like if is loud or quiet and tense. I noticed to begin with the audio is a quiet beat and then when the story unveils it becomes more scary like. Films I looked at were The Woman in Black and Possession both followed this kind of track. From the audio I listen to I quite liked the Exorcist Theme Song to have at the start of the video and Poltergeist 2 Soundtrack to play towards the middle and going to the end but when I listened to the full I felt something was missing it didn't sound quite good enough but at this point I did have a certain sound I wanted to be played.

I was introduced to Incompetech by my tutor, which supply royalty free music, all the music is free and they have a variety of genres. I looked in the horror genres, weren't so keen on anything that I listened to so I decided to look at the different genre I went into “wonder” and I found Dreamy Flashback which would go perfectly and also another one by the name Frost Waltz. It was between these two but one had the edge and it was Dreamy Flashback, it fit more with the beginning and it was like the ones on the trailers I saw. This audio will go at the front of the video and will not be very long. As for the audio for the rest of the audio I will have the soundtrack from The Possession from Scala and Kolacny Brothers as I really liked this and couldn’t find an alternative. I think this will go very well with my clip.

The whole process of looking for the audio was very long because I wanted the perfect audio as I believe this is as important as the actual clip. In the end it worked out well as I have two great audio that I can imagine will go very well in my video. 

http://incompetech.com/

(The Possession)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmpNVgFMApQ 

Considered

(The Exorcist )http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5YQmUIIjvs

(Poltergeist 2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc2069s8nRU

Promotional Trailer Set Up

Now that the graphics side of it is complete, I have to create a 1 minute promotional video like a trailer to go with my cover and label. 

Once I created the project, I created a number of “bins” like files/folders in premiere for my workspace to remain organised as I wanted the audio to be kept separate from the clips or the folder I made for images. The folders I created are in the screen shot shown below.

I then imported files (clips/images) and placed them into the correct bins.

I started to trim the clips from the source footage in order to cut out the parts that I didn’t want and only get the bits I did, by opening the source footage and placing my start and end markers to each clip and finally dragging just the bits I wanted to my clip bin I created. Doing this meant that I didn't clip the original clip, and also was useful when I wanted different parts from one clip. 

Where I wanted just the audio and not the video or vice versa I unlinked the video and then deleted the bit that I didn't want either audio or video. 

Clips for Promotional Video

I began to start looking for clips I would use for my video bearing in mind that my film is horror and the whole storyline of the 1 minute promotion video should all make sense with my DVD cover(the description I wrote) but not so much of the DVD label as this is just an image. Whereas with the cover I have images and a short description. Fortunately I did not use any images of characters because at that stage I was unsure how I would go about things when it came to my promotion I didn’t think about this at that time. So my characters just have their names on my DVD cover but not any images.

I came across films such as The Possession, The Grudge and Amityville Horror which had a storyline quite similar to mine so I could use these as examples to look at. Out of these films I used clips from the Amityville Horror most but did look at the other films trailers for ideas on how I should create mine. These trailers were much longer than mine this meant it was a bit harder to fit the storyline in such a short amount of time but I think that I can do this. I wanted my trailer to have a family who have been tormented by a person from a different past which has come to haunt them and Amityville horror was a perfect film to use, this doesn't mean that I used all of my clips from this film but most of it is due to continuity such as I didn't want a different house, scene or people I wanted this to remain the same. I may download the whole film so that I can get clips that are on the trial or movie clips, so I can find better parts. 

I have provided below to some links to clips I may use for my promotional video. 

I used firefox to download the videos I wanted to use for my trailer, I tried to get different videos and from different films, I also made sure that the clips were good quality.  Before I began starting to create my promotional video I familiarized myself with premiere, the different tools and using the different effects. I tried to get good quality clips, minimum quality as 480p anything lower than this I would not use it, preferably 720p but if I liked a clip which was of lower quality than this I would therefore use it. 

LINKS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBh5nZ3SNz0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeBHPzqiUlg 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIMIz2z-1mk 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd8RaVEZlyU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPYMUnJGURI 

Completed Label - Clipping Mask

My Label is complete now all I have to do is apply a clipping mask which will cut out all the unwanted parts of the DVD label such as where I have gone outside of the label. To do this I created another ellipse and selected everything then went to Object>Clipping Mask>Make. 

This is my completed DVD Label, the quality as you can tell is amazing this was the whole reason why I used illustrator because of the quality it gives the graphics. I am pleased with the results it is matching to my DVD cover which is good because this is all one package and it needs to all fit. 

DVD Signs

Using Pen Tool, Paint Bucket and Blend Mode 

In terms of the DVD logo age certificate and Lionsgate logo, they are all vector but the age certificate is not. To create these vector graphics I used the method to create the dripping blood for over my image. I created them using the pen tool and having the image behind to trace of but the image behind being a low opacity. I used the pen tool which was the best tool to use for this in my opinion,I placed points where I needed where it was curved this tool allowed me to create these curves. I noticed using less points for example to create a O like 2 the shape looked better and more round. 
From doing this first as like practice, I did the Lionsgate Logo without the trace and it looked just as good.

I had to change the colours of the two logos as I had a black background and the colours originally were not suited to a black background but this was easy to change.  

As for the age certificate, I used the same one as I have on my DVD Cover, except when I pasted this it brought a white background which I did not like so I removed this by going to Object > Expand and deleted the outside part. I thought that the logo with colour didn't go well with the DVD logo and Lionsgate Logo which were both black and white so I changed the blend mode to Hue which made it black and white and this fit well with the other symbols. 

DVD Detailings

Using Ellipse Tool, Type Tool and Type on Path Tool

 Since my last post I now have copy right text around my DVD label and I have text with the words “Based on True Story” like on my DVD cover. To create the Copy Right text I created an ellipse smaller than the ellipse and smaller than the guides as it will get cut in the publishing. Then I selected type on path and researched what it usually written there.

 I found that they usually write about public broadcasting or copying. On mine it says “©Lions Gate Entertainments. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized public broadcasting or copying is a violation of application laws. All Rights Reserved”. I used the standard text, Arial and small to only fill half of the ellipse shape.

As for the text, I used  Trajan Pro which I used a number of times on my DVD cover. I also made this a grey colour rather than a white as it looked much better. 

Dripping Blood from Image

Using Pen Tool, Paint Bucket and Blend Mode

It was a requirement to incorporate some vector elements and currently I have my text which is vector and the image I got from Photoshop. I thought of an idea to have a tear drop coming from the eye and create a vector out of this idea but I when I tried to create this I didn't like it, then I had an idea to have blood dripping from the eye. This would fit with the text. I had the option to create the blood myself using the pen tool or use a blood image use this as a trace in the background. After I traced the image I painted it red, a bloody colour and then changed the Blend Mode to Multiply which turned the red colour into a more blood like red, more realistic. I also turned the opacity down to 80%.

Creating Title

Using Type Tool, Brush Tool, Inner Glow, Outer Glow and Blend Modes

To create the I wanted to use the tools available as much as I possible but I was not familiar with Illustrator as much as I was with Photoshop so I decided to look for some tutorials that could help to create a different font. I knew I wanted it to be different from my text on the DVD cover because that was very simple, I wanted to make this bloody and not perfect like the DVD cover. This way I could create a good vector based text. I started to search illustrator tutorials on bloody text and in the first few links I found the tutorial that I wanted to use. (The link to this tutorial is below). I followed the tutorial quite well even though my text doesn’t look like it, I wanted to follow the steps but also make it different and more suited to what I wanted to do so I didn’t follow all of the steps ones which I didn’t like the look of. To start with I used a quite simple looking font which was Impact; I positioned this under the label holes and to the centre. The size was until it fit the whole of the disk. Due to the fact that I applied lots of effects to the font I will list them.

-Roughen effect- made the lines on the text less perfect and more wavy like (Effect>Disort&Transform>Roughen) and I also get the default settings of this effect.

I then created the blood drips using the Ellipse Tool. I added a Squeeze and Bulge Effect (Effect>Warp) and I expanded to appearance. I placed the drips like they were hanging from the text.

I added an Inner Glow effect to give the text a different look, also an Outer Glow.

I placed two gradient effects to the text which saw the text come from light to dark; the colours I used were black and red. On one of the gradients I changed the blend mode to Color Burn and the other to Color Dodge.

I applied a Gaussian Blur which I have used before but this was on Photoshop, which is a type of blur and caused the text to become more blurred.

At this point the tutorial used the brush tool to apply ink spots, from the Brush Library > Artistic > Artistic Ink. Select the “Ink Spots” brush. I did this but I selected the whole of the text and the brush tool to apply this and it affected the whole of the text, this made it look much different from the tutorial did but I liked the effect. The tutorial only applied the spots around the font. 

Link to tutorial: http://vforvectors.com/create-a-simple-blood-text-effect/

Placing Image Stripes from Photoshop

Using Ellipse Tool 

I wanted to use my front cover image for my label, but I didn't want to use the entire image. I just wanted the eye as this was the focus of the whole image. I also wanted the image to be cut in stripes and I couldn't do this illustrator so I had to used Photoshop to cut the image and then take it back to illustrator, the stripes were quite small and long enough to fit the length of the label.

I also have a background colour which is black, in order for continuity with my DVD cover as it is a DVD package and its only one film. I used the ellipse tool in order to create the place for the colour.   

DVD Disk Research

Before I started to create my DVD label I began with my research first so that I can look at what horror labels have in common so that I can follow these in order for my label to look at professional as possible.

A label I liked and have used to look back on to help me when creating my dvd label 

Creating Dvd Disk Template in Illustrator

In order to create my DVD label, I used the Ellipse tool to create the outer circle, and then I created the second outer circle following the measurement which was given to me using the ellipse again and did the same with the two inner circles. I made sure that the two inner circles were centred and not off because this would cut my label detailing when I publish it, I did this my going to View-Guides-Make to make the guides, then View-Guides-Lock Guides to lock the guides from moving out of place. I then set these as my guides, so they would not move out of place when I change things. Another important thing about this set up is that it is CYMK like my DVD cover because it prints better quality and I changed this in the set up. 

DVD Disk Layout with Sketches

Now that my DVD cover is complete at a level where I happy with it. I will now move on to creating my DVD disk label. I have also taken into consideration what the vector elements will be and what they will contain.
I have a few ideas to how I want my DVD label to look, I have sketched these out and are below:

Idea 1:

My idea here is quite simple I will have my image from my front cover to be placed at the front, I don't want the whole image so I may cut the rest of the image off and have just the eye because this is the main focus. The text will be placed at the bottom, I think this may be white or a red colour. I will have the certificate 15 on one side and the DVD logo on the other side. I want to use the lionsgate Logo and this will look best at the top of the label. Although I don't have the copyright text around the label, this will be placed there more to the bottom half than the bottom. The vector elements there will be the logos and the title.

Idea 2

Idea 2 is quite similar to idea 1 except I wont have the image from my front cover, instead I will have blood dripping from the top of the label. This will be one of the vector elements alone with the text and the logos. The text here I have is different text, the other was more bloody but there it is more simple.

Completed DVD Cover

This is my now complete DVD cover, on feedback from others which have said it is very good and near professional standard. I’m pleased with the outcome and will not be adding further changes to this because I am satisfied with the way that it looks.

The lorem lipsum text which was there before has been removed and replaced with some actual text which I have made up, as this DVD cover will be published soon and the lorem lipsum text was only temporary until I knew what I wanted to go there. 

Removing Special Features Section

Using the Brush Tool, Clipping Mask and Blend Modes 

I have decided to remove the special features section from my back cover because looking at it again I felt that I had too much text on the back cover, my images of the scenes don’t take enough room because they are small so I will have some more image to go in this gap. I will make it different from the current image on my back cover.

I decided like with the other image to use a clipping mask, but I will not be clipping the image into a rectangular shape. I used the brush tool to draw out the area I wanted the image to be placed, I didn't use the default brush, I used the number 60 brush which paints less perfect it patchy like and rectangle and appose to the round brush. I liked the way it looked, the white colour will go when the image in placed over it. 

I then had to look for the image which should be placed in the painted area, I weren't sure to begin with what to have to fill just a small area. Then I had an idea to have an image of graveyards placed there, just the top of the graveyards that way I didn't need the whole of the image, the tops is just fine. The image I found already was dark and the grave stones were grey so they would fit perfectly with my DVD back cover and its tones. Now that I had found my image, I re sized it to the area and created my clipping mask using ALT and clicking in between the two layers. I am pleased with this and I can now say that my DVD cover complete. 

Links to images:

http://whatdoeshistorysay.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/origin-of-graveyard-shift.html

Filling in Gap

Using Rectangular Marquee Tool, Blend Mode, Hue/Saturation and Levels 

Like I briefly touched up in the previous post I had a gap I needed to fill, about 5 lines worth, I was sure I didn't want to use any more typed text. So I went to look what else I could place, like placing a table there of some kind. I came across a special features section I could add, I had two options this was to create my own or take one from an existing and I took one from an existing one. This took me ages to find because not many covers contain this and the one that I did find had different tones of orange but I make these transparent like I did before. 

(Placed)

I placed this in the area and it was good fit, I changed the Blend Mode in order to try and get rid of some of the orange in the background and was successful, I used Lighter Colour Blend (turned the opacity down also as it was too strong). I still hadn't finished with the effects because it was not yet transparent. For this reason I applied the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, and I turned the Saturation down and this got rid of the colour orange/red and was on the image you can see in the screen shot however it didn't get rid of any of the marks that were left where the orange colour was. I then added another adjustment layer, this was Levels, and this was the last effect I needed to apply because it achieved exactly what I wanted it to. It got rid of the marks, as you can see in the screen shots, all of these effects did different things but together they did exactly what I wanted for them to so overall I was glad with the result. 

Backcover Text (Part2)

Using Text Tool, 

I have placed more text in the back cover going along I am also cautious of how much I put in there because it don’t want it to be crowded of all text, I may need to place some images where necessary but for now I will be placing the text. From my researching I did previously, I noticed that on the back cover of some DVD covers they list a website which viewers can get more information about the film. I wrote “Visit website at – MyMovie.com”, this was made up, I changed nothing for this text because I thought it looked fine the way that it was even though it didn't look the exact same colour and size at the copied rating advice but I liked this contrast, it made it look like it was different and not one bit of text. Font of this is Trajan which I have used on my title and tagline, as I am a big fan of this font. 

To build on this text I have created a credits section with the names of cast and crew in the style that I have seen on DVD covers, I have used a different font because the Trajan Pro is in capitals and I needed for some parts to not in lower case so I used Arial instead. I have started this with “starring” and the names of people follow with lower case “and” and their role for example actor was in lower case because the main focus is the names of people. I also made the font look narrower vertically as I noticed what they looked like on DVD covers. I am pleased with how this looks; it is just like it is on DVD covers. 

Now all I have to do for my back cover is to fill the gap, as it is too large of a gap I can't just leave it how it is so I will try to images or more text. Will explore more into the next post. 

Backcover Text (Part1)

Using Hue/Saturation, Blend Modes, Rubber Tool, Rectangle Marquee Tool and Type Tool 

Rectangle Marquee Tool- I decided to use this tool for the selection of the Rating Advice as this was in a rectangle shape, I felt this was the most appropriate tool to use because of this.

I have already put some text at the top, in the tagline. I also wanted text under the images of the scenes where a short section written about the film will go, for now I will be placing some Lorem Lipsum text here but this is just temporary and when I come to the time where I write the text that will go there I will replace this however I may keep this. Have placed this right in the centre of the back panel, I have chosen to have this font as white because this looked better and I had the tagline line in white colour also. 

I wasn’t so sure what to place after this so I started working from the bottom up because I had plans for what should go on there. Usually at the bottom of DVD covers you find some ratings advice and information about unauthorised use of the DVD. I didn’t want to create my own so I because I thought that they are usually pretty much the same so I went to find one from a high resolution image, this did take a long time because I wanted the find the right one that would fit with my cover. I did want one with a same colour background as mine but because I had an image this was impossible, so I was looking for anything that was good and I would change it to make it transparent. I used this from a movie called The Lincoln Lawyer. When I searched for this I specified the search to show large image so that when I take it to my DVD cover it would not be too small and so I don’t stretch it which would not make it clear which was the problem with some DV D covers. This was fine and you can read the text clearly.

With this text I had to change the Blend Mode because I found when I placed the ratings advice the colour didn’t match, so I changed it to Linear Doge and I added a Hue/Saturation, taking the Saturation down and the Lightness up until I thought it looked fine. Like I said with the transparency thing, all I did was change the Blend Mode to Kind and this got right of the black background, I found that it left a grey boarder so I used the rubber tool to remove this. I also didn’t like the signs at the top of the ratings information, so again I used the rubber tool to remove this to make it fit with my film. 

  

Background Image for Back Panel and Adding Descriptive Text

Using Hue Saturation, Levels, Type Tool and Adjustment Layer

I wanted an image on my back cover and didn’t want to use just a colour square, so I searched into Google “Grey Horror” and one image stood out to me, this is the image below. This image will not be seen much after all the text and image I have over it.  

The image placed right under the other images and fills the whole space, this is the original image with nothing applied to it. This is the image after with adjustments layer Hue/Saturation and Levels, I decided for it to have a more grey tone and fits more with the front cover in particular the bottom half. I have also placed my text, right under the image where it is usually placed from research I gathered this. I changed the blend mode and added an adjustment layer to this (Hue/Saturation) so the text would fit with the text above because I found it was not the right colour until I applied the different effect. 

Links to image:
Background image: http://pewdiepie.net/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=4445 

Adding Tagline for Back Cover and Images on Back Cover

Using Type Tool – to create tagline


Usually on the back panel of the DVD cover you find what is like a tagline or a quote to describe the film from critics, it can sometimes be found on the front panel but I want the focus to be on the image and font so I felt it would be appropriate on the back. Whilst looking for text I should place for the description of the film from the text generator Lorem Lipsum. I found a tagline line when translated in English sounded really good and very horror like.  It was: "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain...". Font Trajan Pro and a size of 11. 

Using Clipping Masks, Layer Styles, Rectangle Tool, Adjustment Layer

Now I will have my collection of images that are scenes from the movie right under this. To begin with I used the Rectangle Tool to create the boxes that the images would be put in and made sure the distance between the boxes was the same and the height and length is the exact same. Now I have created these placements I needed to look for the images to be contained in them. First I knew I wanted a young girl character and searched into Google “girl screaming” but the pictures were not what I was looking for so I looked at films with young girl characters and knew a film that was recently out in cinemas which had a young girl character screaming. I then went on to find this image into Google, image below. I wanted three images there, for the second image I want a grabbing hand with blood surrounding it again I looked into Google searched “Bloody hand” and found the image below which stood out from the rest. Then for my last image I wanted a sky image, so into Google I searched for “Scary sky” and the second image I saw I liked and wanted to use. 

Now I have the images I want to use, instead of simply placing the image over or in the rectangle I decided to use a Clipping Mask as this was the most effective way, I did this and adjusted the size of the image so that the whole image can be seen. I decided to add an stroke to get box and make the outline white and a stroke size of 3px. You can see this below. I have not yet applied any effects but will do so, also on the front cover you may tell that I have the words "Based on a true story" written under the title, this has an outer glow applied to it like the font. 

Time for effects:
I added two adjustment layers these were Curves and Levels, it was applied to the whole of the back cover but with the curves I focused it on the top part where these images were. I changed the settings until I was happy with how it reflected my image. Below finished images 

Links to images

Tagline: http://www.lipsum.com/

Mama: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/21/mama-review

Bloody Hand: http://www.123rf.com/photo_5887726_a-bloody-hand-over-background-with-claret.html

Other Details For Front and Spine

Using the Quick Selection Tool 

This post will consist of the other smaller things I added to my front and spine panel in order for this to look more DVD cover like, this includes the certificate, DVD logo.
I looked for things individually like a single certificate 15 sign, I knew that I wanted my film to be of this certificate because of the horror element, and then I wanted the same sign but in blue as means something different and found a DVD logo. Then I took all these and used the Selection Tool to allow me to get only the parts I wanted, then I placed in down the spine. 

(Completed)

Links to images 
Certificate 15 (red): http://iota.wiserhosting.co.uk/~artcypr/cornaro/events.html 
Certificate 15 (blue): http://iota.wiserhosting.co.uk/~artcypr/cornaro/events.html 
DVD Logo: http://www.huntlogo.com/dvd-logo/dvd-video-logo/ 

Creating Title For Front and Spine

Using Text Tool, Layer Styles and Layer Effect 

I will be creating my new font which will go on the front of the DVD and going vertically down the spine. I have to consider the placement of the font again because now that I have the hands image and the blood I feel like it will be too much happening in that kind of area; this was where the font was before so it will not go there. I’m thinking more in the centre  above the tips of the fingers and just below the eye because the eye is the main focus I don’t want the font to hide this but for now I will initially create the font and the placement can be changed and this will be based on wherever looks best. 

To begin creating my title, I used the Type Tool to write the text out, as you know already I have found the font I wanted to use. I decided to use the colour white because I found that white went well against the image in the background and also because when I will incorporate the glow effects again the colour white went the best as you don’t get font glows that are the colour black it doesn’t look right. The other colour option for me was red but I felt for the front cover this would be too much of the colour red especially with the red fibres coming from the top of the image and then the blood splatters around the hands. In terms of the size of the font I went for what fit the cover, not all the length of the front cover. I decided to position the font below the eye and to the centre. 

I decided to take a copy of this text layer because now that I have added the glow effect the text is a little hard to read so I duplicated the text without the effect applied so that I have this to be able to read and have turned down the opacity and fill. I applied an Outer Glow from the Layer Styles, changed the blend mode from Screen to Lighten, I also changed the default colour glow from a yellow tone to a white as I didn't want the glow to be this colour and I also changed the Spread and Size of the glow looking at the change it made until I liked the look of it. I added a Motion Blur to my text, just at 90 degrees and very little. You can tell in the image that all the layers do different things to the text, like the glow, motion blur, and then the copied text layer. 

I decided to create a folder for all the layers that my text used so it will be easier for when I do my spine text as all I will have to do is copy the folder and make the font smaller and going vertically down the spine. Below is the completed font on the front and down on the spine, it is that exact same font with the same effects.