Typography Practical:

Typography-Practical:

I have done a practical task  making of a 50's vintage style horror movie typography, using the programme 'adobe Photoshop'. Practice such as this allows for me to improve my editing skills for my final product.

Although our final product is not going to include 50's style Horror typography, I thought it would be an interesting contrast, and used this practical as a method of gathering ideas and finding out how to use this programme correctly and efficiently. Although it did not end up how I originally intended it too, the greater amount of practice that occurs, the greater the final product. Therefore making it a useful task.

Here are some examples of 50s's vintage horror movie typography that I used for inspiration:

What I did:





Firstly I inserted a picture of a location I deemed fit for this genre, and changed the colour scheme, making is darker/a deeper blue.

I then added a black and white filter, to ensure it matched the genre I was going for. 

I then proceeded to download a font on dafont.com, one that I believed matched the style I was going for. Afterwards I removed the background and adjusted the size and width to ensure it filled the page to my desired way.

I then adjusted the colour and opacity of the text ensuring it fitted and faded well against the background. I also added in two layers of old movie film scratches to ensure it looked aged and further fitted the look I was going for.



Conclusion:

• Overall the attempt did not go fully to plan, looking very unprofessional and ineffective.
• I plan to use Photoshop more often to help improve my skills on making it as a piece fit well together and look effective. The use of font looks very childlike and does not fit into the background well, the positioning is also uneven.
• Next time I plan to spend more time beforehand researching so I can produce a more interesting looking typography.