Shot Composition

Monday 5th December 
L/O-To understand the basic rules of shot composition.

Rule of Thirds and Leading lines:

The rule of thirds is what makes certain things stand out in pictures. It uses guidelines like in the second picture. For example with the man with his bike, he is in the middle third and where the lines cross over on the right side, his head and feet are there.

Pictures that don't use the rule of thirds.

You can tell these don't because there is no actual focus or they are right in the middle.

Photographing people:

• Looking room
• Headroom
• Eyelevel

  

Peer Assessed by: Katlyn 

WWW- You gave a good amount of head room, and you can see both you eyes.

NTT- Use yourself instead of someone else, make sure the looking room is more to the side.

Think about:

• Camera positioning/perspective
• Texture&Pattern
• Leading lines
• Backround

This is a well composed picture because it uses leading lines to lead to the girl. The camera angle is also good because its around her height instead of looking down on her. Its also focused more on the background and its faded at the front.

This is also a nicely composed picture because it uses the rule of thirds. It has also got a blurred background to really make you focus on the flowers. Although, only a few of the flowers are actually properly focused.

Final Magazine cover

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Peer Assessed by - Freya Piper

WWW - The layout of the magazine matches other magazines of this genre and you have stuck to your colour scheme.

NTT - Maybe next time you could make the main image bigger to make it more noticeable.


Self assessment:
WWW: The layout is quite like my style guide.

NTT: Make it look more like a magazine cover, maybe a different font.

Mag Cover Planning

Magazine Cover Planning:

L/O: To Create an effective magazine cover using appropriate codes and conventions.

• Title
• Main Image
• Main Coverline
• Coverlines
• Small Details- Barcodes/Date
• Colour Palette

Style Guide:

Title: Halftime
Colour Palette: Red/White/Black
Main Image: Picture of me kicking the ball
Small Details needed: Barcode/Price/Date

Typography:

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Look at your style guide and answer the following questions:

1. There are four different styles of font.
2. The coverlines are made to look different by using different colours to separate them. Red to catch the attention then black to tell you some more extra detail. The sizes are different and some are bold. the font stays the same.
3. The Coverlines are block caps and sentence case.
4.  The Coverline font is angular as opposed to rounded as its a more masculine magazine cover.
5. Most of the coverlines are arranged around the main image but some go over or under the person.

Magazine Front Covers

Magazine Front Covers

L.O: To identify and use genre conventions.

• Masthead: The title on the front cover, big writing usually, attracts readers attention, identifys the brand.
• Dateline: Where the date of when the magazine was issued is written, usually under the masthead.
• Main Image: A big picture to grab peoples attention, takes up nearly the whole page.
• Coverlines: The writing you read to see if you would be interested in that magazine, the article titles.
• Main cover lines: The cover line that has the largest writing, normally the biggest story, can link to the main image.
• Barcode/Price: Where it says how much the magazine costs and where they can scan it.
• Tagline: Tells you a little bit more information of what the magazine is about, this is also to see if the magazine interests the reader.
• Quote preview: Like a sneak preview, a quote from an article in the magazine.

Codes and Conventions

• The main image is usually a mid shot or full length shot of the footballer.
• The masthead normally has something do to with football in it like soccer or kickoff.
• There is normally quite bright colours to make it stand out, I can see most of them have red but they probably have the colours of the team.
• Most have quite a few cover lines.

All of them have datelines above the masthead.

Style Guide

Creative Techniques in Photoshop

Creative Techniques in Photoshop.

Colour Popping:

Gradient Masks:

Liquifying:

Blend Modes:

Layer masks:

Text Clipping:

 

Quick Selection Tool:

Introduction to Photoshop

Introduction to Photoshop:

We used Photoshop to create a zombie face using layers, the lasso tool and image adjustments. Below is my first attempt.

Self assessment:

WWW: The head and the mouth were both matched to fit in with my face shape.
NTT: Make it look a bit more realistic and add more features to it.

Second Attempt:

WWW: The features fit to my face good.
NTT: Make the bare skin that was showing a more appropriate colour.

IMovie Trailer Project

I used the Titanic Trailer. I Changed it from a Romance genre to a Horror genre.