Use of Technology Within My 20 Key Frames

Throughout the creation of my product; the 20 Key Frames, I felt as if the limited resources and equipment that I had couldn't (closely enough) replicate the artistic style I had intended for my original film idea. To the best of my ability, I tried to physically implement the ideas and style from my film into the Key Frames, this included: the correct framing that I wanted, correct focus, correct stage-dressing etc. and  as much lighting as I could.

However, upon viewing these images, I found that the lighting and colouring was a little off, due to the little equipment and resources I had available. This means, as expected, I have had to use technology to alter my key frames to gain the desired effect. I also felt that this helped enforce the idea that these were screenshots from movies, rather than just random photos taken as films use post-production to colour grade and add special effects. I used Adobe Photoshop to do the same.

The most prominent example of the use of editing of my Key Frames is Frame 9, pictured below with it's original version (without editing) on the left.

The one on the right is much better at conveying emotion and the feeling that it is night time. I did this by increasing the contrast, decreasing the highlights and adding more of a blue tint. Atop this, I've also added a lit end, smoke and an alarm clock overlay, on top of a roll of paper and the shot as a whole.

The application of this high contrast, blue tones correction can be seen consistently throughout my key frames.