Photoshop Poster Assignment
The images used on the poster were selected to tie into the themes and symbols used throughout Lord of the Flies. The image of the Lord of the Flies, the severed pig’s head on the stake, represents the boy’s fear of the unknown on the island. It also represents the savagery present on the island and present in some of the boys. The signal fire represents the hope for being rescued and provides a sense of safety. The background of the poster is a beautiful beach scene that is like paradise. The heaviness of the tree branch across the top third was intended to provide a darker contrast to the beach scene. The lone boy pictured on the beach represents Jack and the worst of what the boys have become. He shows how they have changed without the presence of adults and order. Overall we chose images for the poster that support the themes of the novel.
For the image of the pig, we used the polygonal lasso tool in Photoshop. This tool is used to select specific areas of an image. Prior to using this tool, we had a picture which included a pig on a stake. By using the tool we selected just the pig and the stake and copied the selected image to the beach background. We then used the erase tool to remove the unwanted parts of the pig image. We also used the colour replacement tool to enhance the colour of the pig. This resulted in a brighter picture with high contrast.
The text that is on the tree branch was created by using the text tool within Photoshop with an appropriate style of text. To be able to manipulate each letter of the text, each letter was a different layer. This made it possible to rotate and size each letter appropriately to the shape and size of the tree branch. The text flows along the tree and is easy to read against the black background.
The spot healing tool was another very useful tool that we used. The point of this tool is to completely erase small parts of an image. In the background of the beach image, there were boats, a dock, houses and people. To remove these from the image, the spot healing tool was used to colour over the spots that were not appropriate to the image for the poster.
Cameron and I divided the work equally. He chose to do the text and two polygonal lasso tool items (Jack and the pig’s head). I did the other item (Rocks) and also placed and fixed the font, and changed the pig’s color. We both worked on the fire smoke together trying to make is look as realistic is as possible. We made the choice to split the work in this way because we felt that we had the same level of skill in Photoshop and it divided the work effort fairly. We both contributed to the poster equally.
We used images for the poster from a variety of sources. They are listed below. The details regarding ticket prices and dates were obtained from a cast member.
Images Used:
Beach Background: http://search.creativecommons.org/#
Pig Head: (Screen shot from the movie Lord of the Flies)
Bon Fire: http://search.creativecommons.org/#
Bon fire Rocks: www.creativecommons.org Image ID: anim0420, NOAA's Ark - Animals Collection
Jack: (Screen shot from movie Lord of the Flies)
