Progress of Making the Title Card

Inspiration • Below you will find the image which had inspired me to create the background of

my title card. This image which I have found on google.com/images attracted me due to the contrast between the black and red which is almost drips of blood on the red. Having such a bright red colour automatically screams out horror to me as it is really exposed making the colour red look extremely scary. Next I will be showing the progress of my attempt into creating a similar background image, however not being an expert in using Photoshop and Fireworks I am not fully sure I am going to create the exact same thing.

I then started to create the black edges on it so that I have the same gradient affect as my inspired image.

So, the main colour is red right? I have decided to draw simple red lines on Adobe Fireworks. This will help me to further carry on with adding colour and edges.

Next comes the smoothing of the harsh edges. OH NO! my worst nightmare of using this software. This was extremely hard as I was not aware of the right tools to use. Therefore it was very time consuming doing this.

I then used an airbrush tool which has a much more softer finish in order to help me gain the gradient affect however, was not able to achieve much doing this.

I then decided to colour in the rest of the circle so that I would have the base of my title card. However when doing this I intentionally left some white spaces so that I could later fill in with shades of black.

This is when I added a black background on a different Image Layer so that it fills in all the black spaces.

I then came across a tool called ‘Burn’ which allowed me to darken the red up to give me the same effect of the blood dripping, however I was doing it much more thicker.

I then decided to add more red which helped me to have more colour to burn. However whilst in the progress of doing this I completely forgot about the black edges.

Being fed up with Fireworks and the process of creating smooth gradient edges, I went on to Adobe Photoshop which has a tool that automatically creates the gradient affect. So I created the corners one by one.

Second corner… Third corner And the Fourth! However here I started to create a gradient affect on the margins of the sides as well so that the circle in the middle is much more tighter and smaller.

Initially I was going for a bright red in the middle but previously it was quite dull, so at this stage I decided to brighten up the red by exposing it and contrasting the colours.

Here were the last few touches of ‘Burning’ the image as I was not fully satisfied with my previous outcome so here I was doing the final little bits to make it look perfect to my needs.

LAST FEWLAST FEW ADJUSMENTS!!!ADJUSMENTS!!!

FINAL OUTCOMEFINAL OUTCOMEConsidering that it took me approximately 2 and a half hours to create this title card I believe that It came out of a good quality. In addition it also met my expectations of how it was roughly going to turn out. Taking into consideration that I HATED the programmes and I did not have a good understanding of how to use them and the various different tools it had, it was a very difficult progress for me.