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For a Photoshop Phriday competitition at Something Awful, users were asked to take a trashy comedy or action film and make it look like an arthouse movie. There were lots of entries taking films such as The Phantom Menace and Norbit, making them look like high class, intelligent films. Here is my attempt at remixing the Blades of Glory poster.
In a similar competition, users were asked to play around with the conventions of movie posters by making half-decent films look like 1970s grindhouse flicks. Here is my attempt at remixing the poster for Nacho Libre.
Learning PhotoshopIf you need assistance mastering the basics of Adobe Photoshop, you can download this document . For some tips on creating grungy, grindhouse effects in Photoshop, click here. Video TutorialsHere are some videos that will help you complete this task:
Assessment Task: Remixing Movie PostersDue Date: Wednesday 27th February, 2007. Select a low budget comedy or trashy action flick and reconstruct its poster to make it appear like an art house film. Use lots of white space and elegant type faces. You are also required to take a decent film and make its poster look like a trashy, 1970s grindhouse flick. Assessment CriteriaCriterion 1: Operate media technology and use materials, techniques, applications and processes to produce representations in two or more media forms. Criterion 2: Understanding of the ways in which codes and conventions (such as visual, audio, technical and written) are used to convey ideas and meanings. Student PostersHere is just a selection of the posters that students in Unit 1 Media produced in as part of their assessment for Outcome 2. Students started off by familiarising themselves with Adobe Photoshop, giving a comedy or action film the appearance of an arthouse masterpiece. Following the tutorials on the previous page, students then gave an otherwise decent film the appearance of a low budget 1970s films, in the style of Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse posters.
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