Creative Challenge - Movie Title

The Challenge

Create an image that perfectly illustrates a movie title. This was potentially a none runner for me as I am most emphatically NOT a movie buff. However one very memorable title came to mind.

Clockwork Orange

Orange Clock

Building Blocks

Purchase one orange, slice it in half and photograph it on a plane bckground.
Source an old clock, take it apart and photograph it on a plane background.
Simple!

Method

  • Open the orange image, rotate 90°cw and adjust the levels to brighten it up.
  • Add a new a Adjustment Layer for Hue/Saturation. Play about till the BG colour looks right.
  • On the layer mask, paint out the orange so that its' original colour shows.
  • Make a carefully select the clock and paste it into the orange file as a new layer.
  • Use Edit> Transform> Scale to reduce the clock to the required size, then rotate and move it.
  • Use the layer mask to remove all the little bits of visible background (between the spring coils etc).
  • At this stage the image is almost complete, but looks very flat. Make a shadow by duplicating the clock layer then moving it down and to the left.
  • Set Contrast on this layer to -100. and brightness to -50.
  • This leaves a very hard and opaque shadow. To make it more natural, set opacity to 80% and change merge method from normal to difference.

Voila - One Clockwork Orange

 

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