My 'Photo Frame' Idea Development
As I've mentioned in previous posts, I aim to have a scene showing a photo frame of my two actors together. This is to allow me to create a graphic match of the past matching with the present - I plan to show my actor's happy in love before the war which will then lead to the present, showing the female character looking and reminiscing at the image.
What Will the Image Be?
The general idea I'm aiming for the image to look like is to show my two characters at a happy moment of their relationship. This basically means an image of them looking like they're in love, which therefore highlights a precious moment of their love life. Below is the image which I've decided to use. I decided not to actually allow them to pose for the image and take the picture itself. This is because the graphic match would work better if I take a screen shot from the footage which I've filmed from them, as I can then pause the footage at the right moment to allow the 'picture' to be taken, which will then match to the image in the photo frame.
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| My Image for the Photo Frame |
How Can I Adapt This Image to Suit the WW1 Era?
Of course, I can't use the image above itself due to it having too much quality (in terms of resolution and pixels, etc), as this wouldn't be likely in the 1910s. Therefore, I've decided to slightly photoshop the image in two different ways: the image to be black and white, or to try myself to reduce the quality of the image, and giving it a 'sepia' look. Firstly I decided to make it black and white, which is easy on Photoshop as there is a tool which does this for you, as shown below.
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| Changing the qualities of the black and white adaptation |
I then altered the saturations of the tool to make it more suited for the image (basically making it blacker and some bits whiter). As my image ratio differs quite considerably to my photo frame (which is around 5 inches wide and 3.5 inches tall). To do this, I needed to slightly crop my image so that it fits the correct aspect ratio, which you can see below:
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| Changing the aspect ratio just above 5:3.5 so that it fits into my photo frame. |
I made the image slightly larger than the dimensions of the photo frame purely so that it will be bigger instead of smaller for the frame, allowing me to correct it so that it fits perfectly. Once I completed this, I then tried to make the image look older and less quality by giving it a 'sepia' feel, which is shown below.
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| Adding a 'sepia' tone to my image |
This didn't go as to plan - the image came out considerably orange however the quality of the image does look reduced and looks as if it has been adapted to the WW1 era (as colour images weren't around yet - they were either black and white or a moorish sepia colour). Therefore, I've decided to use the black and white image instead of sepia as it seems more convenient.
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| The 'sepia' adaptation I created |
How Does the Image Look in the Photo Frame?
After printing the images to fit the frame, I then took photos of what it looked like with my phone (hence the poor quality). You can't see the images very well however in reality the black and white image is more suited and generally looks better.
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| Sepia |
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| Black and White |
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