Vampire edit & Heal brush

 In this lesson I learned how use different tools on photoshop to change the image on the right to the image below it to create a vampire affect.
 I used the brushes tools along with the magnetic lasso to create the change of colour to the face and to create the teeth.










On these bottom two images I am demonstrating how I had learned to use the healing and cloning tools on photoshop. By using the healing tool to go over the spots and remove them as I used the cloning tool to copy a clear piece of skin across them so that the face would all look clear I was able to edit the image so it seemed the spots had been removed.

Disability indesign

This was the first document I made when working with in-design. I created the disability DPS as I had already researched the topic for folder work so I included my case study into disability in the media, into my DPS. When working on this I learned how to work with the different tools in in-design. I placed a background into my DPS and then started working on the other features. Getting to grips with placing images into image boxes and then creating boarders around them was something I knew that would come in handy when it came to producing my final DPS. I used the text boxes to place my case study into and then began using the margin guides to show me where I should place my text boxes so that they would fit the page how I wanted.
 I tilted the images I had placed in and then added a breakout box by placing another image box in the DPS and importing the image of the paper. I titled this slightly also and added a drop shadow to add dynamism to the DPS. I created my title in photoshop and imported it into the DPS by placing it into another image box and giving it a transparent background. I did this as photoshop offered more options for me to be playful with my title. All the skills I learned throughout my initial DPS creation I knew I could use when it came to creating my final DPS so the making of this helped me to be ready for my final product.    

Production blog write up 3

Production blog write up 3

In the third week of my production I was creating the final product. I used the indesign and photo-shop programmes to make my front cover and DPS. I used a range of the skills I had acquired throughout the year to put my final product together.This is the final design of my front cover that I submitted. At this point I was organised with the materials I needed to create my product and just had to start creating it. I placed my image into photo-shop and then began working on the sell lines and the features I needed to add to make it look like a professional magazine front cover. Using the text tool and the fonts I had installed I created the sell lines, name of the magazine, strapline and other features you can see here. As I knew where I wanted the features to be placed and how I wanted it to look I managed to get through some of the cover quite quickly. I added the image and strapline along with the title placement and the 'exclusive' section aswell as the bar you can see on the left hand side and then had some of my sell lines ready to include. At this point I had a week left until the deadline day so I believed I had enough time to be finished within.  

   

This is when I began working on my final DPS I used the skills I had learned in my first in-design work so I knew how to create a DPS. I had the text boxes and image boxes ready so all I had to do was place in my article and images. I started with the images and made them the size I wanted and gave them the rotation I wanted them to have. At this point I had only a draft of my article so I firstly included that so I had a idea of how my final product was going to look then I made the necessary changes to my article and included the updated version in my final product a few days later and it left my with time so that I can do the final manipulations to my project.






At this point I went back to making the finishing touches on my front cover I used the text affects to have the text alignment make the text read from the side it was at either left or right and made sure all the strokes around the texts were the same size. I had the colour scheme kept the same across my front cover and made the left side text alternate between black text and white and vice versa and then red and white on the right side. I believed this text the texts fresh as although some of them had the same look they were never repeated next to each other. I also made some words different colours so they would stand out more and added the sell buttons at diagonal opposites on the front cover so they complimented each other. With 2 days left I started to notice that just making gradual little tweaks to my work made it look aesthetically better.  

This left me time to move around the images and text to make sure they were in the place I wanted them to be on my DPS. I created my caption boxes and moved the kicker to various positions to see which I liked best before deciding on the best font for them and where they were best placed. Although I did the final pieces of my DPS work the penultimate day I still felt confident I had achieved the look I was aiming for on my final DPS. I had completed my front cover and had already moved it into the first page on the DPS file so that the spread was ready. I made the final adjustments to my breakout box by changing the font in it and making it tilt into the text so it kept the readers eye on the article. Although on the final day when it came to uploading my product I encountered an error as one of the texts I had been using on my DPS was copyright so could not be exported, this left me a little problem but I had left myself with enough time so find another font that would be suited for my audience and used that on my DPS before uploading it as my final product.

Continuous shoot mode

 These are some of the images I took with the continuous shoot mode on the camera. For this I changed the settings of the camera so that it would take multi photos one after another in quick succession. Then once I had the camera prepared I had my model blow the bubble gum and I held down the shoot button so that the shutter speed was fast and it would take the pictures quickly showing the model blowing the bubble. I learned this skill and now know that it could be used to take images in different scenarios such as if you were to take pictures of somebody running or jumping from something you would be able to take the images quickly and they can seem like a animation if you go through them quickly.

AS Media Production: Final Skills Audit Print Production

Name:Craig Burke                        Tutor group:1.04                 Date:15/4/2013

Photographic Skills

Which of the following photographic features/equipment have you used on a camera before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Manual Focus features	Y		I have used this in the photos I have taken for my photo shoot as it allows me to check the detail of an image to see if it is all in focus.
Shutter Speed	Y		I have used shutter speeds when I took images of people jumping down stairs and walking across the shot.
Aperture control		N
Continuous shoot mode	Y		I have used this mode on the camera to take a series of images as my model blew up bubble gum it was able to capture the images swiftly and they can be seen on my blog.
A tripod	Y		I used the tripod when I was taking pictures for my shutter speeds images. I placed the camera on the tripod to make it focused by removing human errors.
External flash	Y		I had external flashes in my photo shoot images as I had a soft-box involved in my photo shoot.
Self timer facility		N
Light meter		N
Composition grids	Y		I used composition grids to create the rule of three when placing the eye lines on my images.

Photoshop Skills

Which of the following features of Photoshop have you used before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Text control	Y		I have used the text control to move and create the headlines and sell lines on my magazine front cover.
Filters		N
Brushes	Y		I have used the brushes tool on photo shop when I created a CD cover for a band. These images are on my blog as part of my project.
Layers	Y		I learned to use the layers tool on photo-shop whilst I was working on my front cover as I had to have the image and different text layers above and below each other.
Opacity control	Y		I have used opacity control when I created a retro looking image which can be seen on my blog.
Shape creation	Y		I have used this to create the buttons on my front cover of my magazine to place text in such as the price of the magazine.
Brightness and contrast control	Y		I used these in photo-shop when I was changing my front cover image of my magazine to make the image look better.
Gradients	Y		I have used the gradients when filling a section of the image rather than fill the whole layer.
Load selection features	Y		I have used this when loading work and selecting the specific source options.
Feathering	Y		I have used feathering on my vingetting image to make the image less solid.
Colour curves adjustment	Y		I have used this on my images when I was colour correcting them. Changing the line shape to affect the colours on the image, it is shown on my blog on my retro images.
Resolution setting control	Y		I have used this when opening a file on photo shop to select the resolution for my page such as the DPI.
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool	Y		I have used this on the image when I created a vampire face to change the teeth to make them pointy this can be seen on my blog.
Cropping tool	Y		I have used the crop tool on my DPS images to make the images fit the frame by cropping out the subject and cutting the unneeded background.
Clone tool	Y		I have used this on the spot removing image as it cloned the ‘clear’ skin across the face to make it all the same, this can be seen on my blog.
Retouch tool	Y		I have used this tool in photo-shop to edit the spotted face of an image it was used with the healing brush to remove the spots from the face and can be seen on my blog.
Other skills	Y		I learned a range of skills throughout my time of working with photo-shop and learned along with this range of skills that I could manipulate the features of images by using different filters such as liquify also I learned how to cut out pieces of an image and duplicate them in the same area to place over something this is done on my front cover as I cut out a sections of my models are and duplicated it over the text and bar at the side of my image.

In Design Skills

Which of the following features of In Design have you used before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Margin and column guide creation	Y		I used this before starting my DPS to ensure that I knew where my text and images would be placed on my product it helped me to piece together my final product.
Inserting an image ID	Y		I learned to do this in my first try at in-design as I placed the image box and then placed the image into the box. It can be seen on my blog.
Resizing images in ID	Y		I used this in my final product as I had to make the images fit on the page together so I used this skill to ensure I could make the DPS images fit how I wanted them to.
Text manipulation – resizing, rotation	Y		I used this throughout my DPS as I resized the title and kicker of the article and made the article smaller, aswell as rotation the text on my breakout boxes.
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading	Y		I used this skill on the kicker of my final DPS product to bring the text closer together.
Text flow creation	Y		I used this skill in both my final DPS and the first attempt as I learned how to drag the text from one text box and place it into another if it did not all fit into one.
Using transparent imagery in ID	Y		I used this for my image boxes and the background of the DPS as I had them all kept transparent so that I could create my DPs from scratch and it would show if I had any missing spaces on my page.
Shape/line creation In design	Y		I used this skill on my caption boxes and images at the top of the pages so that the eye lines of the reader would be drawn back into the article after looking at them or reading the caption sections.
Exporting to PDF from In-design	Y		I learned to do this along with my final product as I could export the DPS to upload it as my final product, It would change any texts that were copyright so I had to check the PDF file to make sure nothing had changed and then I could submit the DPS as my final product. It allowed the spreads (all 3 pages) to be exported as one file.
Text Wrap	Y		I used this to wrap the article text around my caption boxes meaning the text would continue to flow and not be overlapping the boxes.
Other Skills	Y		In In-design I learned how to create drop caps in my article and how I could merge two boxes so that when I moved them they would move together.

Number of new skills achieved: 29

Introductions for Unit 3 Examples

Fast pace, 2^nd person, shock horror intro and its effects

Do you have a drinking problem? Would you even know if you did have one? If your drinking is causing problems in your life, you have a drinking problem! Did you know alcohol is responsible for at least 33,000 deaths in the UK each year? Rates are rising in the UK and liver disease, caused by alcohol, used to affect middle age drinkers but the sufferers are now getting younger.

With a fast pace, 2^nd person and shock horror introduction the reader will be hooked and immediately interested as the introduction moves them along quickly giving them facts or interesting information that they would not know and would not expect. This is what makes them read on as they want to find out more and see the consequences of the facts given to them or to look for the answers to short quick fire questions the introduction may use. It can be a introduction used for both young and old audiences as it has a ‘wow’ factor that could pull the attention of the audience in and make them want to read more of the magazine.

3^rd person, long paced, summary intro and its effects

This article will provide an insight into how alcohol is advertised in the media whilst showing just how media advertisement can affect children as it gives them a view that alcohol leads to having fun and that the experience of drinking alcohol is beneficial furthermore it shall inform on how the advertisement can influence and change perceptions of drinking alcohol. The article will teach why alcohol advertisement matters as well as providing tips and help on how to keep children out of the way of alcohol advertisement additionally it will explain just what alcohol advertising is and explain the messages it gives out to a young audience.

Using a 3^rd person, long paced, summary introduction will provide the audience with a summary of the message or information the magazine or article is going to give. The formality is high and it is seemingly emotionless to the audience as it does not address them and only tells them what they will find out from reading the magazine. The long sentences slow the reading of the summary down and it is made less grasping for an audience due to this as it chooses only to explain the article and does not have any excitement about itself. It is the type of article that would be aimed at an older audience as a young audience would not be able to connect with the narrative voice and would probably not take an interest in the article.