Today we went and took a photo of Emily who played our main character in Verity Lies. We wanted to get the same feel as the Studio magazine women did so we turned all the lights off and used lamps to light her face and also used a hair dryer to get her hair to flow. We took some in front of Emily's blinds that were spotty as we thought it would make a nice background and then some against her plain bedroom wall.
Next we shortlisted our favourite photos as we did when designing our poster and discussed which one we felt would work best. Eventually we chose the one of Emily side on with her hair flowing behind as we liked the unusual positioning and Emily looks very beautiful.
Initially we liked the spotty background but when applying it to our Studio magazine layout we decided it cheapened the overall look of our piece. We then made the decision to cut out Emily from the background thinking this would be a fairly straightforward easy process. WE WERE SO WRONG.
Daisy stayed after school today trying to get the background gone and nothing seemed to be going right. The main problem is the hair. It is very hard to distinguish where the hair stops and the background begins. Once finally managing to cut her out placing her onto our fully formed magazine cover made Emily look very out of place and just sort of shoved there without much thought.
We will continue to try to use this image as we really like it and want to use it for our cover but we need to think of a better way to achieve the look we want.
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