My dad bought Super 8 on blu-ray. We watched it yesterday on his big ass tv with surround sound and everything. I loved it. I am very much a sci-fi movie kind of person.
Well I noticed throughout the movie that J.J. Abrams (who also did Cloverfield, Lost, Fringe, Star Trek) used a lot of lens flare. As over the top as it was, I really liked the effect it gave the movie. I also noticed at almost all times during the movie there was kind of a blue cast over everything (cool colors), but there was always something in the foreground with warm colors (red, orange, amber, yellow, etc). For example, a bus in the night where everything has a cool overtone, yet the amber blinkers were in the foreground making the whole scene just POP.
I decided to attempt to find an image on Google Images that had absolutely nothing to do with Super 8 and see if I could make it look like it fit in just by adding a few effects to it in Photoshop. The pictures posted here are the result. The first is the original picture I found, and the second is after I added a cool overtone (blues) and some lens flares.
With a bit of typography added to it, it was perfect in my opinion. I think its amazing how you can add a few tones to an image and create so much mood and change the entire meaning of an image.
If you have any questions on what I did, feel free to comment below or on my facebook.
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