Week Nine

This week has been spent completing my DVD Menu, getting all the designs put together with the images i have taken.  Below are a few of the menu designs i have made that will do in the final product;

As you can see in the image above there is a block of flats, these flats are where the film is based 90% of the time.  The film is based around the films paranormal activity and quarantine in the fact that strange things happen and are filmed on hand held cameras.  They all try to escape but the doors are locked and there is no way out.

All the links have a red underline, and there is an easter egg on the page as well where you see HELP written in one of the flat windows.  You will only be able to access that by pressing left on the bonus features button.

The image in this page shows the for sale sign, this is because the reason why the film is based in the flats is because a young couple buy the flat in the first place.  All the links have the same rollover as the main menu (generic theme throughout the DVD menu).  All the language links will then revert back to the main menu where those settings would have been made.

To get the image to blend with the background i used the masking tool, and then a brush tool with the hardness reduced and then blended along the edges to reduce the harshness.

The most technical menu on the DVD is the scene selection, i had to code the thumbnails using the (%) into the button (+) folder.  The way i layered the images in Photoshop that when you go to link the thumbnails in Encore you will have the numbers and the blood at the top of the images.