With this in mind, I re-watched all of the Alien 'quadrilogy' and created a little excercise for myself. It had been a while since I'd watched them all and also a while since I'd dabbled with Photoshop.
I returned to a Photo I took in Liverpool city centre around 2009-2010. An old deteriorating building had been lit with neon signage, for no apparent reason. I didn't know why at the time, but this image stood out to me and I snapped a shot of it with my phone. I liked the way it looked and the image remained with me.
It wasn't until 2011, when I started my degree, that I began to learn about Mike Walsh and the whole futurist imagery and futuretainment ideology. How odd it seemed, so I stored my little photo away for a rainy day.
Before starting year two and in anticipation of eventually finding the time to sit and watch Prometheus , I revisited photoshop and revisited the image.
I messed around with the colour curves and hue values, added a layer mask, gaussian blur and noise in order to bring a film grain effect to the image whilst leaving the FUTURIST and THINK ABOUT YOUR FUTURE messages in 'focus'.
Finally, I added a filmic widescreen letterbox effect. It reminds me of BLADERUNNER. See Before and after below. I'm starting to get used to this now :)
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