Faye Jackson - subversive advertiment

This subversive advert shows how unhealthy MacDonald's are this can be shown by the liquid coming out of the bite would be saturated fat.+  

Marissa Johnson: Video Editing

Evaluation

What effects did you use or what were you going to use (including sound)?
This is the editing software were could change the entire video. For example we could change the video images through effect like 'Paint Bucket' were the different sections of the video are pained a different colour such as green, red and yellow. However i didn't know how to keep the paint on the stairs for the effect of blood because it always spilled onto the top tier of the stair case and it would be around lower parts as well. Another visual effect would be 'warping' this effect allows a shot to to warped and distorted, However this i didn't fit with the theme since it made the entire video look bad. Instead we added a 'ghosting' effect where it takes the first frame of the shot and moves it around to add a unnatural element.

The sounds we used was instrumentals of different songs such as 'Enter Sandman' and 'Devil in I'. These songs fit the idea alright but we couldn't find any more song since we ran out of time so we had only two songs so i don't think that advert was that informative about the type of songs on it.

What did you enjoy about this project?
I enjoyed the idea of going around college and filming a short advert so that i could fit into a thirty second advert. this made us plan out the shots more carefully. I also enjoyed the short films we watched as to get a good idea on how directors used different shots.

What scenes were cut/changed from your final advert?
There were no scenes cut from our final project because we had carefully constructed the different scenes enough to know how long each shot should be, so we didn't need to cut anything. However we did change was the title so instead 'Goth CD' we changed it to 'Goth Compilation' since there were two different type of music in the video.    

Photography Evaluation/Memory Check

Memory check – a recap of things we have covered so far

Q1. What is ISO and what does it effect?

It is the 'International Standards Organisation' the ISO effects how much light sensitivity there is.    

Q2. When would we use the ‘P’ control setting on the camera mode dial.

The 'p' stands for program this mainly used by novice photographers because it allows the camera to do all of the settings 

Q3. Name two important consideration when attaching the tripod 

base plate to the bottom of camera?

One of the considerations that are important is if the arrow underneath of the base plate is pointing towards the camera lens.

then we need to check if the base plate was was tight enough so that the camera doesn't fall off   

Q4. Name three important considerations when using a red-head lighting kit.

• the heat that would be generated
• securing the red head to the lighting stand
• don't touch the barn doors   

Q5. When focusing the camera, what do we place on the object/subject to ensure it is the center of focus?

we place a grid that are separated in thirds. Or an L.E.D square. 

Q6. Name two techniques we can use to adjust the brightness and contrast of a photograph?

• Curves and Levels

• the aperture setting 

Evaluation:

During these past 5 weeks we were tasked with creating a magazine advert with images we took our selves however we had to do a freak or unique theme to it. We did this by researching different images we started out copying 10 images we liked that also fit the criteria of this project. After this we had to narrow the selection down to 5 image from the selected 10 that we could try and replicate the feel of the images. From these images i have learnt that there is a correlation between these different images that is they all have a unique photogenic look such as having an image with a two tone color pallet. My first idea was to have a clown to the left with a field behind him and a type of mist in the background. My second idea was to have a merge of image of my classmates and merge them together like Picasso. My final one was to have an advert for running shoes i did this by portraying the shoes as a strong athlete stamping on a weak athlete making way for a stronger competition, there is a Kit-Kat bar inside the shoe showing that you can become a great athlete without giving up your favorite things. then the statue with the lanyard is for the symbolism of the fans of sport and how they will praise you.Finally the hard drive will represent the amount of data that will be needed to record all of the great moments that you will do as soon as you put on the shoes.
Photography skills
The photography skills i have developed, is the knowledge of how the camera works and the different modes and knowing when to use them. I used a seamless background. this allowed me to correctly cut out the images.
Four Edited Final Shot, What editing process did you use.
the editing process I used the curved tool and the level tool to adjust images exposure and back ground for the four images then i used the pen tool to have an accurate pathway so that i can cut out the images correctly. Another editing was to cut out a piece of the shoe then copying it then pasting on top of the kit at bar.
Examples of your final design artwork

This artwork show how i wanted to depict the advert so I used this as the basis for my final advert.







What would you do differently next time and what did you learn from your first assignment
I learned how to compose a image correctly by using the rule of three and what the different modes were on the dial such as ' program,speed,aperture and manual.' i also know how a basic studio is set up and what equipment was used to do it.What i would do different would be having a more detailed objects to take image. So that I can make a better image that was made by the merged images. 

Mark Epton: Product

Mark Epton: 10 freaky images

Freak or Unique

 

Link-http://www.freakorunique.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/popeye640.jpg

Why I Liked It – I liked this image because it was done naturally by the subject and the subject of this picture was behind a black background therefore the contrast is really well done. The equipment for this was only a camera, stage lights and a black back drop. I don’t believe that there were that many editing techniques involved with this picture besides maybe an edit in contrast to make it stand out even more.

 

Link – http://www.allmystery.de/i/t6597e3_b68cd2_freaky.jpg

Why I Liked It – I liked it because of the genral concept it seemed like the edittor had a blast editing the image and from the looks of it they used at least 3 images and combined them together. From the look of the image they use a garden for  the background then they took a picture of a random hand the replaced some of it with a another picture of someones face. By the looks of the overall image it seems that they used the clone tool for the editing of the picture and increased the exposure for the hand.

 

Link- http://img.izismile.com/img/img6/20130827/640/freaky_faceswaps_of_dolls_and_kids_640_04.jpg

What I Like About It – The way they edited by using a technuiqe were they copyied both of the faces and swapped them by using a multitude of layers.the props this photographer is a doll as well as using a child model.

 Link -  http://hdwallpapers360.com/wp-content/uploads/Weird-funny-images-6.jpg

What I Liked About It – They way they edited a pre-existing image to make it really weird by copying the legs of the orginal image then adding to another layer and enlarging it.

Link - http://orig05.deviantart.net/1690/f/2009/195/6/b/baldizinger_by_freaky_guy_246.jpg

What I Like About It: I like this because of the way they had a large aputure so the backgorund of this picture is only slightly blured so that it would allow the man to be the subject of intrest without the audeance getting distracted. I don’t believe they did any major editing to this picture.

 

Link - http://theawesomedaily.theawesomedaily.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/tumblr_inline_mmb9fhWEWX1qz4rgp.png

What I like about it: they merge 2 images together but the real genius behind this image is the way they blend the dog together with hair

Owain Davies: Magazine final

Evaluation
In this session I have produced an advert for a sports magazine, the ad is for sport trainers that will be mainly used by a certain groups within the sporting community. these are the urban gymnast, runners and black top basket ballers.

The research that went into this project was how different types of grip affects the athletic portion of the total population, another bit of research that went into the design of this image was were the most amount take place therefore it helped me because I put in an city for it's background and a Orange circle for a ball and the wing that represent freedom.

in this process of creating this ad I learnt how to use the 'magic wand' tool this is allows me to select the entirety of  one colour such as a white background then it will allow you to cut it out or to do any other effects.
However I believe my work in previous sessions are a lot better than this image. this is because with this I have a small white square between the two trainers.  

 These are the original designs for the advert. The theme for the advert on the left has the product over the city because it is were the most amount of sales will take place. While the one on the right presents the product like there are already sell because they are on the front page. this also show that these products are the most popular at the current moment.

Marissa Johson: Finishing Pre-Planning

In this lesson we finished of the pre-planing that we were doing in the last lesson so by the time it comes to our next lesson were we will be actually filming.

 The image to the left is the finished CD case
cover and below is the actual CD.after we printed it out we used a guillotine to cut out the images in a straight lines.