Dawn of the iron creature design process and self evaluation

My design process - upload images of at least one poster in progress and write about what you did, your ideas at each stage, etc. (100 - 200 words)

I wasn't sure what i wanted to do for my poster in the first stages, i looked at many different franchises trying to find something i could blend together in a comedic way but it seemed as though every mashup idea had been exploited already. I researched some of the older famous posters looking for something that might not have been looked at and eventually found the dawn of the dead poster. It was famous and recognisable but also relatively easy to edit unlike many modern posters, i thought of a funny movie i could spin it with and came up with the iron lady.

I spent the first part of the design process editing Margaret and the poster in order to fit her head into the poster correctly. After this was done i used the brush tool to make her look like a zombie, i tried to replicate the style of the original poster trying to strike a balance to make her look recognisable while still clearly a zombie.

After i had finished this editing i started cutting out the text of the original poster, this was relatively easy to do since the word "dead" was against a black background and "room" was against a red one. However the most difficult part of the poster was replicating that old font style used for the title "dawn of the dead". Because the poster is so old the original font wasn't on the Internet so i ended up downloading the closest font i could find which replicated many of the elements. However even with the original font it wouldn't of looked quite right. At this point i had the finished poster although as i mention in my evaluation of the work it still has many faults.


self evaluation - reflect on your performance over the last 6 weeks: what was our knowledge of photoshop and posters before we started? what have you learnt? what would you do differently next time? (200 words) 

I've learnt alot over the last 6 weeks, at first i knew almost nothing about photoshop, but over the course of lessons and trial and error I've learnt the basic keyboard shortcuts - which i use regularly, how to liquefy pictures and manipulate them. I've learnt how to remove a character from a picture entirely without disturbing the image and leaving a massive white gap. I've learnt how to correctly use the quick selection tool and magic wand tool, this has helped me to remove parts of images and I've often used it in combination with other tools.