Graphic Design

For the designing of my graphics I used a specific setting when I went into Photoshop. i went into the preset drop menu and selected Film & Video so i could select the PAL D1/DV Widescreen which has a pixel resolution of 720 x 576. This is so when I import the images into Adobe Encore it will have a suitable Film and Video preset on the image.

I will now have a certain type of layout for working in Photoshop with.

I now have a blue boarder which will interpret the TV's safe area for example the outside of the blue lines are the TV's boarder, The middle is the TV screen and the part between the middle and outer area is the possible parts that will show up on someone's TV. It is important not to put any important information on these parts of the image because if there is the person watching the DVD start up may not be able to see it because their TV does not have the correct resolutions for the full image.

The following images below are the images I am going to be using in the DVD start up menu (not in order).

For now they are not in a widescreen format however when imported into Adobe Encore they will reveal the rest of the picture that only widescreen viewers can see.

Sound Design

Different types of sound needed:

In this project to create the sound i need to go off a script for the Dracula DVD start up screen. The scrip i have to go off is:

It is a stormy night with wind, rain and thunder.

A person walks along a gravel path up to a large castle door and pulls the door chain.

The bell rings and footsteps on a stone floor are heard.

The castle door lock is turned and the door slowly opens.

Dracula is seen at the door and welcomes you to the castle.

A clap of thunder arrives after the welcome.

The door closes.

And the sound of the wind and rain fades away.

This is the script that i will work of to get my ideas for sound designing for the DVD start up menu. 

I will be creating most of my sounds from scratch. Only a few sounds will be taken from a non-copyrighted sound site so i can use the sounds freely with out copyright getting in the way of my DVD start up menu. The program that i will be creating my sound in is a program called FL Studios. i will be using the plugins that are included with the program and downloaded from the internet. The first thing i did for my sound was that I recorded Dracula's voice effect and a few other effects that i could use in the sound clip so some of the sound effects are real other than being digitized. The other sounds that I recorded are a bell effect, lock effect, a door effect and a walking effect for the ambiance. So the sounds that I need to create are the wind, rain effects. I had a gravel walking effect already made from another project so i used that effect in this for the first part of the walking on gravel.

In FL Studios to create my wind effect I went to Channels > Add one > 3xOsc to add this plug in to the library to create my sound. I then selected the correct preferences on the plugin to create a static effect to turn into a wind type of effect. I then assigned the plugin to a free mixer track so i can add some effects to the sound. I added a reverb and as part of the program an effect called Fruity Parametric EQ2 which will let me change the volume from certain points.

I then put it in my audio line and put two of the same sound effect in and i edited the sound at parts of the audio clip with a volume automation to range the sound to make it sound like real wind and rain.

I now have my wind and rain effect. I downloaded my lighting effect from a non-copyrighted website for sound.Now I have all my sounds I made sure that I gathered it all in a place where I would find it so I can click and drag the sound clips into the program in a new project and I arranged them all into how I would like the sound to be and I then had my finished sound.

I then went to File > Export > Wave file so I will have all the sound with no loss of sound from the clip.