Mark Epton: Creating Freak or Unquiet - Photography/Proposal

In this lesson we had to finish off taking any pictures that are needed.then we used the Photoshop program.

 these images on the left are the few of the things we had to take pictures. the problems we had  for this was the shadows, since we couldn't move the red head because of the heat it was generating

Proposal:
My ideas for these images was to have them was to use them as an advert for sporting shoes. my first idea was to have the image of the shoe blurred out so it could represent how fast you could move if you bought this, then for the Kit-Kat bar would be trampled by the shoe and i would also desaturate the image of the Kit-Kat bar to show the irrelevance of calories when wear these shoes. then the next image was the Sponge bob Square pants was going the shoes to show that even animated characters are wearing these shoes. Finally  

Owain Davies:Different Logos

In this lesson i was told to find different types of fonts on the website 'DaFonts.com' - http://www.dafont.com/.




When we got onto the website we had to do a print screen on the page where the font we want is. After this we went onto the Photoshop by using the start menu and then transformed it so it can be big enough to see. after this we used the marquee tool to get rid of anything unnecessary, after this i hid the background and then used the Magic Wand tool to get rid of the white background of the actual logo on each layer.

The reasons why i chose these 5 themes that are on the left is because it shows what Oculus is about in one way or another. For example the first one shows what we wanted the theme to be because it almost seems like it is written in blood. The next logo seems to be written in a Gothic style, the next logo seem to be used in some type of black magic. the fourth seems to be made by using quick one stroke motions. Finally the last one is distorted so it can represent what the CD is all about.

   In the end had to design our own logos then we had to present them to our own group and selected the one.

Faye Jackson: Libary

Today in tutorial we went to the library to get acquainted with the facility on 'D' level. we got a tour around the area and was told the basics of the library such as how many books we could take out and we also have a £2  print limit and to print a black and white copy it would cost us 2p per sheet and colors are 5p per sheet.

Marissa Johnson: Advert Proposal

In this lesson we were told to move back into our groups and then started to brainstorm the locations that we could use in our advert however the maximum number of possible location was only three since the advert would only be 15 to 30 seconds long.

we in first location we decided on was the spiral staircase because of its contrast between natural lighting and artificial lighting, and since it has angle when you go down stairs we can do different camera tricks.

This sheet allows us to have a check list for our chosen locations such as.

• lighting
• props
• public interference etc.

Marissa Johnson: Video Advert

In this lesson we were put into groups were that are going to be making an ad for the next three weeks. So after we got together in a triangle we all asked each other what skills we have and what objects we could bring in. Then we all look at some 30 seconds advert. The first one we watched was the old spice advert, in this advert the actor which is promoting the product is Terry Crews  - www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaOz_pFnX38.

In our Group we decided to look at the well known adverts then we each add in our own adverts we personally liked, for me it was 1st advert i have evidence i had to choose between this one or the original one. after this i choose one and we moved to the next person in our group who wanted to have an ad made by David Lynch so we looked through his collection of adverts and discussed the advert about the effects etc. After this the last person didn't have any weird looking adverts so we talked about what type of product that should have some weird adverts and then it clicked. looked at different adverts in japan, this is because of the cultural difference because in the west we are pretty serious about things while in japan they are the exact opposite because they are up for a happy and weird feeling.    





The second advert we look at was directed by David Lynch, David has mainly been know for his work for the play station 2 the 'third place' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4tOvkvCvwQ. The advert is weird because of the finally part of the advert were the fawn runs in front of the car then it seems he used some ideas from the Matrix movie because as soon as the car hits the fawn it crashes and the crumple zone of the car gets compressed.

The third advert was from abroad since we were suck for ideas for ads in the UK  we chose to look at some Japanese advert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfzNEmqeIWo. This advert was weird because of the gaint dog that helps out kids with snacks.

   

Mark Epton - screen less images

In the beginning of the first we were shown how to set up a basic studio for photographers by using a high voltage light referred by the professional photographer as the red head. this is because of the continuous light that comes out of it. there are disadvantages to this light such as it would become extremely hot after only 10 mins. The next piece of equipment would be a Lumia camera. we used this to take the picture of the objects and to make sure the image is steady we used a tripod. and for the background we used a white back ground by using a piece of paper. Then we were told to take some pictures of some objects with this set up

 this is the first of the images we've taken it just a simple Kit Kat bar (Top).then we went into Photoshop and used the 'levels' tool to and a few things to the image so that the background turns pink (bottom).

 These head phones were a tricky because of the image since there is a big shadow behind the headphones so I use a mixture of 'Curves' and 'Levels' to have the sliver background.  

Hard drive was easy to change since i have already had practiced with the 'curve' tool thanks to the other images.  

Owain Davies: Banners

In this lesson we learnt how to make banners with photo shop by using different shapes such as a rectangle and some triangles. this is possible by using different layers. For example for the image above I used the rectangle and triangle then I used a gradient overlay to get the effect that is on the banner. I also used this technique for the background. then for the image to the right I deiced to play around and made another banner with one of the images I made earlier on in the year.I did run into some problems like the triangles don't match up properly so I just changed the size of the banner to fix it.