Editing a photo of my model on Photoshop which will be used on my front cover
This is a screengrab video I created through a program called Camstasia Studio which captures anything I do on my computer. It basically shows everything I do to edit a photo of my model which I am going to use for my front cover, so this is anything from fixing blemishes on her skin to give it a smooth, clear airbrushed look which will be more appealing to my target audience to adjusting contrast and colour to make it brighter and stand out to the audience. I have created this video to allow the audience to view how I edited my model step-by-step.
Transcript: In my lesson today I just continued to work on my magazine. I especially worked on the last page of my double page spread which was where I had an empty space that I needed to fill in, so I went over to talk to Mr Fisher and I asked him what I should do to to fill in this space as I wasn't entirely sure what to do with it and he showed me someone else's magazine and told me that I should fill in some boxes and say that my artist was talking about other artists and things like this just to get the audience involved as most teenagers like the gossip aspect. So today I just started on these boxes and filled them in with text. Then, me, Siobhan and Rag'e did some audience feedback videos in the office room in our Media room and we just said the good and bad things about eachother's magazines and we videod this and put it up on YouTube. So this should be up on my blog soon. I think this audience feedback really helped me because it made me realise the good and bad things about my magazine and how I can furthermore improve to make sure that it's up to scratch and the best it can be for the final deadline.
Transcript: In my lesson today I continued to work on my magazine and improve my blog. So this was anything from filling in gaps to adjusting my blog, making sure that it's up to scratch and that I wasn't missing out on any parts I needed to. I also spoke to my teacher and we went over everything that I'd done on my blog and anything that I might of been missing out on and she ticked off everything I'd completed which was quite a lot so really I haven't got a lot left to do on my blog; - apart from the fact that I forgot to do my Time Lapse for my photoshoot and now this is not very do-able because I've already completed the photoshoot. This is really the only thing I haven't completed. On my magazine today I just worked on improving it and filling in any spaces. Also, I've been working on my evaluation, so any evaluations I have typed down normally, I have now converted them into presentation techniques using voice-overs etc.. One easy thing I found about this lesson was that I knew what I wanted to do with my magazine so continuing on working on it wasn't a problem for me. But working on my blog is quite hard because I didn't really know what parts I should be improving on, for example I wasn't sure if I should of been debriefing/adding text to every single document on my blog or whether I just had to do this for powerpoints etc.. However with some help from my peers I was able to work on this in the end.
This is a video of me and my peer Siobhan analysing eachother's magazines, stating the things we like about them. We discussed the strengths and improvements we could make on everything about eachother's magazines from the front cover to the double page spread. The feedback Siobhan gave me really helped me because it gave me further confidence on my magazine but also allowed me to realise some things I needed to change about my magazine to make it look more professional and up to its full potential. The audience feedback was created with Siobhan as she is part of my target audience, so I thought it would be appropriate to use someone within this age. I definitely felt I handed my final piece in at a higher standard thanks to some of the beneficial feedback I'd recieved from this audience feedback, so overall I felt it really helped.
Transcript: today because it's half term this week I haven't been able to access the programs that we've usually been able to use at school to develop our magazines such as InDesign and Photoshop. So instead I've just been working on my blog and making sure that it looks a lot better. I've been especially changing my presentation techniques, changing the programs that I've used for documents. So for example for my diaries I've mostly just been writing my production logs down on text and putting them on my blog, but now I've transferred a lot of them onto different documents now such as Word document, a Powerpoint, Prezi etc just so that there's a lot of variation of the programs I've used to make my diaries. Also I've just been changing all of my presentation techniques because before everything was made on Powerpoint on my blog, but now I've changed some documents to Prezis, Adobe Premiere Pro videos, Word documents, Edexcel etc.. Just so that there is a lot of variation of programs used. Aswell as this I've made two videos of me giving a tutorial of how I've edited two photos on Photoshop, and I've given a voice-over to these so I uploaded these to YouTube and added them to my blog. So today I just improved on my blog really and I will continue to do this throughout the week to make it look a lot more appealing to the audience as I cannot work on my magazine.
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In today's lesson I worked on some of my magazine to make it look more professional, so I especially focused on my double page spread, for example I used the text wrap tool just to import images and fill in any spaces or gaps that were left. And I also just wanted to make sure that my blog has a variation of different presentation techniques so I re-did any of my powerpoints and changed them to Prezis etc just so that there was different types of presentation methods on my blog. Also I changed my contact sheet into an online flip book just so that it was a lot funner and easier to look at and there was a lot of unique different things on my blog. One easy thing I found about this lesson was that I already knew what I wanted to do with my magazine so it wasn't hard for me to grasp the concept of what I wanted to do for my double page spread. One difficult thing I found about this lesson was probably just trying to work out the flip book and how it worked but in the end I grasped the concept of that.
In my lesson today I changed some of the font on my double page spread to font size 11 so that it looked more professional and I changed the layout of my contents page and moved some of the text onto the other page so that there were less spaces and I filled these up with pictures etc. So I just worked to make my magazine look more professional and I also worked on some more of my coursework for my evaluation.
Question 2 evaluation: "How does your media product represent particular social groups?" evaluation question, made with Adobe Premiere Pro & a voice-over
This is one of my evaluation questions I created with Adobe Premiere Pro which I downloaded a trail version of at home and then recorded myself doing a voice-over for all of the text involved, just to make it seem more presentable.
At first I just made my evaluation question with Powerpoint, but then I figured I wanted to use more of a variety of programs with my evaluation questions to make it more interesting, so I print screened each slide I'd made and imported these one by one onto Adobe Premiere Pro. Then, after recording my voice-over for the movie, I imported this audio file and cut it up carefully so that unneeded parts were deleted and that they were measured up correctly with the right slides for the right amount of time. Then, I watched over the movie one last time and once I was satisfied I finally exported it and published it to YouTube. I'm glad I used Adobe Premiere Pro as this furthers my knowledge and skills of different programs, not just Powerpoint or Windows Movie Maker.
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The type of magazine I was looking to create was of a similar genre and style to the magazine ‘Vibe’ but with more of a focus on R&B music that is not always shown as mainstream nowadays. I lead my magazine down this route as I find that mainstream music is too popular nowadays and that R&B music is underrated and not played enough. I gathered that this is a market that can appeal to many people’s needs as the market is unique and may satisfy those who agree that R&B is not played enough nowadays. My magazine will also include the latest album and gig reviews which will include the type of artists that are going to be expected in my magazine by the audience.
Firstly, the house colours of my magazine are purple, black and white. I believe that the colour purple holds not only connotations of royalty, but it gives the magazine a quirky feel too. Aswell as this, the black and white colours give my magazine a smart and sophisticated look to it, too. This clearly relates to the social group as these are characteristics that my audience are most likely to have as a person. However, the colour black also hints that my audience are mature, however the colour white suggests that they are still young innocent, representing the age I have chosen in my target audience and how it varies. The readers will also choose to read my magazine out of their interest in R&B music, therefore the use of loud, bold fonts will instantly stand out and appeal to them as perhaps they are likely to be different from the crowd and unique, which is exactly what my magazine is. I chose these house colours over colours such as yellow and pink because I feel that darker colours represent a clearer view of the music genre my magazine is about.
Next, on my front cover my model makes direct eye conact with the camera lens and looks confident with her arms crossed behind her head. The camera placement is at eye level with the model, suggesting that both the model and the magazine are friendly and approachable, and that they are the ‘same’ as the readers. Furthermore, my model is of a similar age to the reader as my target audience is young, so my model represented this successfully therefore more appealing to the reader. Aswell as this, my model’s confident pose and firm eye contact with the camera, plus a colourful floral top represents confidence and strength. Aswell as this, her curly bouncy hair could portray joy and fun, and all of these features may lure the reader in and perhaps make them look up to her as a strong R&B role model, wanting to be like her. Aswell as this, I did make sure that my model’s clothing was common for the R&B genre as the social groups viewing my magazine are more than likely going to want to look to my magazine for fashion tips and clues on what to wear.
Because my magazine is aimed at people within the social classes of B, C1 and C2 I have made sure to use simple English so that the reader is able to understand and read through it swiftly. Furthermore, I have made sure that my magazine is written fun and witty throughout so that it has a positive tone and the reader knows that the magazine has a good, positive attitude. However I have made sure its tone isn’t too laid-back and sarcastic or else it may come across as negative and mocking, therefore putting the reader off.
This is an evaluation question which elaborates on how I have presented my model and how this represents particular social groups.
Tutorial of me using Photoshop to edit a photo of my model for my R&B magazine.
This is a video showing me using Photoshop to edit a photo of my model for my R&B music magazine. I go through the editing of my model's skin such as fixing any blemishes/spots, aswell as blurring out the skin slightly to give it a more smooth and clear effect, plus making facial features such as the eyes and lips brighter and bolder with more contrast, aswell as adjusting the picture making the contrast and brightness higher, aswell as the colour. At the end of the video I present a before and after photo just to represent the differences within the picture after editing it.
I used 'CamStudio' to record me editing the photo, and then put this into a program named 'Windows Movie Maker' to start cutting up the clip, removing any unimportant parts and making sure some parts of the clip are fastened up (the 'fixing blemishes' part) as it is too long. Then, I watched through the whole clip and recorded myself doing a voice-over for this at the same time on my phone, uploaded this to my computer and added the audio clip onto my movie. After making sure the movie was complete and ready, I published it onto YouTube.
This is a video of my peer Rag'e giving me feedback on my magazine. This included the strengths and the improvements I needed to make. The feedback he gave me really helped me because it made me realise the good things about my magazine but also the features I should improve on to make sure that it is the best it can be and up to full professional potential.
Transcript: Today I continued to work on my R&B magazine, completing final features of my front cover and my contents page. Then I began to work on my double page spread, making sure to make it look professional and organised. The hard part I found about this lesson was that I didn't quite know where to place the images and I also found it quite hard to complete my whole first draft within the lesson. However, the good thing I found about this lesson was that I quite enjoyed creating and designing my magazine and making it look how I wanted it to.
Today I created my contact sheets with all the photos I had taken of my model at my photo shoot. Once I had done this, I saved them to my home folder and began picking out a picture for my magazine front page and editing it. Ms Baker advised me to airbrush my model's skin on photoshop and fix any blemishes and perhaps enhance some colours such as the red on her lips etc.. One easy aspect I found about this lesson was that I already knew how to use photoshop and am quite good on the computer so I found it quite quick and easy to navigate myself around and get myself working. Aswell as this, I used my initiative and used other sources instead of just the teacher to help myself such as 'YouTube'. On YouTube I found a clip that further helped me with editing my model's face on Photoshop. However, one difficulty I found with this lesson was just creating my contact sheets as they took quite a long time to be created and I had to get help from my teacher in order to do this.
This is a video of me editing my model using Camstasia Studio just to further portray to you how I fixed blemishes on her skin, adjusted contrast, etc etc.:
Transcript: Today I uploaded my questionnaire for my magazine to my blogger and I also uploaded my bar chart/results for my questionnaire too. As well as this, I began to look through the pictures I had taken at my photo shoot of my model and began to think of ideas for what picture I should use for which page on my magazine. The easy thing I found about this lesson was that I had clear intentions and ideas for what I wanted to use on my magazine and how I wanted to create it, however a difficult thing I found about this lesson was that there were so many pictures to choose from that I wasn't sure which one to choose.
I made this video with ADOBE PREMIERE PRO which presents all of the equipment I used for my photoshoot and the advantages of using this equipment. This equipment included the photography studio equipment and also the camera equipment. However, I also have a Powerpoint version of the video too: Equipment
This video and powerpoint both present the equipment I would have to use in my photoshoot to take my photos in order to make sure they are the best quality possible. I have also explained the advantages and effects of using all of this equipment.
Transcript: Today I continued working on my Codes and Conventions for contents page and made sure to add finishing touches to my blog such as labels etc.. Then, I started to look at my checklist and take a look at the things I have missed out on or need to do. Lucky I'm up to date but there's still a few more things I need to do.
These are the labels on my blog:
As you can see I added many images/finishing touches to my Codes & Conventions: Double Page Spread document to make it look more appealing and attractive to the audience:
Transcript: Today I started doing my Codes and Conventions powerpoint for a front cover. Here, I explained the conventions of each section of a front cover and got half way through it. One difficulty I had with this was trying to set out my powerpoint so that it looked presentable. However, the positive I found is that I discovered I was far ahead with my work.
