Production Monitoring Blog - 22th March

This week I am going to work on my article for my double page spread inside the magazine. As well as this, I shall be working on the front cover, developing my skills on photo shop and practicing knowing the tools and how to do different elements on the programme.  Last week I achieved getting all the photo’s done and choosing the ones that I will be using for the magazine. So this week, I shall also be uploading the pictures and starting to place them in Photoshop and work on my front cover.

I want to create an effect where the image looks like the same person, and is the same picture, however they are infact different pictures, just moulded together. I did try this, but I found that the task was definitly too hard to do so I decided to fall back to my other idea of having one body overlapping the other on the front cover. I have also started on my double page spread and article, but not quite fnished to put in in place yet.

I have had no errors yet along the way, however I keep changing my mind about ideas, when I just need one idea fixed in my head so it doesn't get too confusing. This week I will hopefully have my article and other elements in place such as images and sorting the structure around. Also I will hopefully have a fixed idea about my front cover of magazine and think of different sell lines and colours.

Production Monitoring Blog - 15th March

.At the beginning of last week, Monday the 7th March, I took the photos for my magazine front cover and for the double page spread. The photo shoot took around half an hour all together. This is one of the pictures that I took on Monday. The photo shoot went very well and all went to plan. There were not very many contingencies at all, except for not really having a solid idea in my head of what the photo shoot was going to include and how I was going to take the pictures. Other contingencies that I encounted was the fact that I forgot some make up for the model to wear for the photo shoot. We couldn’t do the photo shoot without it so we had to go and borrow some off a friend. Other than this though, when we had everything, all the props and costume, the photo shoot ran smoothly and I got all the pictures that I wanted. I used one of the canon cameras from the media classroom for the photo shoot because they give good quality results and make the photo look professional. Using this camera has given me more skills with the camera and I have learnt how to handle it and where to hold the lens to keep it steady while taking the photo. Chris, the lighting manager helped with the photo shoot a lot because I needed a while backdrop and specific lighting.

This week I will have done my flat plan and rationale of front cover and double page spread, and uploaded the photos for the magazine onto the computer, and start experimenting on Photoshop and ID. I will have a structured and definite idea in my head of the fonts and other elements that are going to be included in my magazine, ready for the making of the production. After this week I will have also started writing my article and structuring the layout of my double page spread. The article will be suitable for the target audience, been very colloquial and appropriate for teenage girls. They will be a lot more interested in the magazine if the lanuage is like this because it is suitable for their lifestyle and they will feel up to date about what is going on as it includes fashion too.

Skills Development Blog. Aperture. 11th February

For this picture, I had took the shot in a higher aperture. This means that you can see all of the things in the picture and everything is clear. I learned a lot of skills on the camera while learning how to do aperture. It was fun to do and interesting to learn how it works. However, it took a long time to get it right and get the picture to look proffetional and the perfect sperture in the picture. This picture is took at around F22 with a thin depth of field.

This picture was took around F9, showing the product that is up close, still clear to the eye, however the background is a little blurry, showing medium aperture. It took a while to get it perfect and getting the focus at the correct aperture as we were just experimenting with different depth of fields, to see which one was worked better.

Finally I took the final picture at a low depth of field, letting more light into the lens, making the object that is closest to to camera very focused, compared to the background, which is very blurry. Again it took a little while to turn the dial to the right aperture level, but I got it in the end and got the result that I wanted. I have learned how to use the aperture level now on the canon cameras and this will help me in developing my skills even more.