Editing diary entry (photoshop)

(Adam)
An important part of our editing is the use of photoshop to create or freeze-frames. The frames were something we wanted to include because they were a clear cut way to introduce the personalities and character roles of the characters. We took influence in using this idea from old western films and more directly from the film "Snatch". To create the effect on the pictures we exported them into photoshop individually and used the "cutout" filter. For some of the pictures this was all that was needed but for most of them we also needed to alter the brightness and sharpness of the edges to produce a clear enough picture, this was due to the quality of the frames depending on the background they were taken in front of.

This screenshot shows how we created the screenshot of Ray, this frame in particular was a good example of how the characters backgrounds were vital in creating a good freeze-frame with the red canvases behind Adam creating a red effect on the whole picture.

After the transformation using the filters was complete we put the text over the pictures to show the characters name along with that of the actor portraying them. For this we chose to download a font called Urban Jungle due to the lack of originality that could be found with any of the pre-loaded fonts on the mac.