4 freaky images montage

This is my 4 freaky images montage with text explaining what it is and what the images were for.

photography

Q1. What is ISO and what does it effect? ISO changes light sensitivity. The lower the ISO number, the less sensitive it is to the light, while a higher ISO number increases the sensitivity of your camera. The higher the light the lower the ISO but that changes the pixels in the photo.

Q2. When would we use the ‘P’ control setting on the camera mode dial.  P means program, you would use P when you want to control the ISO or white balance. You would use it when you want a bit more flexibility while not worrying what the shutter speed or anything is, its good for just focusing on composition or an important photo so you don't have to worry about other settings.

Q3. Name two important consideration when attaching the tripod baseplate to the bottom of camera?

1. Make sure its tight.
2. Make sure its in the right way (there's an arrow).

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

• Don't touch the barn doors because they get super hot.
• Make sure you turn it off and leave it to cool for 15 minutes.
• Make sure you don't trip on the wire.

Q5. When focusing the camera, what do we place on the object/subject to ensure it is the center of focus? The little green square (or cross hairs as i like to call them to make it sound cool).

Q6. Name two techniques we can use to adjust the brightness and contrast of a photograph? to adjust it you can use the curves tool in photoshop but on a camera you can use the "shutter speed", "aperture" and the "ISO" 

Avidity bar evaluation - games and graphics

In this lesson we had to produce the paper version of our advert for a magazine. My advert is a nutrition bar called AVIDITY (I got the name from the dictionary, it means enthusiasm or energy) and when you eat the bar it gives you super energy and is packed with protein and lots of nutrition. Here I basically just drew a plan of what I was going to do, this is the final plan as I had lots of other plans but this was the final of what I was going to do. I came up with some text at the top that reads "Put yourself first! Fitness" and then the avidity logo bar underneath with the slogan that is "Energy for those desperate days".

Then I had lots of facts underneath like the protein inside it and the vitamin A and C etc.

I researched about the dimensions of nutrition bars but it didn't help so I had to create my own dimensions for it which was very hard and that's the reason in which if I did this again I wouldn't do a bar I would do a drink or a spray or something like that. I also researched about nutrition bars and what they had in them which really helped me and my group create our product. I learnt a lot of skills from creating this advert including how to use Photoshop with lots of different cool tools to use. I learnt how to film and how to take good photos and how to set the white balance. I also learnt how to create shapes like stars in Adobe Illustrator then how to copy it into Photoshop. I then passed that information onto another student who wanted to know how to do a different shape and import it into Photoshop. It was all very helpful to me in making the advert. I feel very happy with our final piece as I think it looks very professional.

Media

In this lesson we had to finish off anything we haven't already done and get ready for tomorrow where we're going to start filming everything so basically we were finishing off my story board and then once that was done i basically went and did the rest of my freaky images so tomorrow i can just go into Marissa's lesson, pick the camera up and start filming.

storyboard. video and film

Here is a few screenshots of what i did in word and how i explained what i did in the storyboard and what were gonna do in the film etc.

4 freaky images. Photography

 In photography we were given the task of taking 4 freakish pictures based on a photo and had to use equipment such as the cameras provided, red heads and had to set the white balance in the settings etc.

in this photo i got my friend Simeon to stand by a red board and pose in that certain way with a kind of creep-ish smile then i put it in Photoshop and used effects to impact it in certain way like i used the pen tool to cut around him and added a black picture as the background and changed the colour to grey, however i put the yellow bar up a little more than the others as i wanted his skin to be quite light but didn't want his arms as light so i used the burn tool to darken his arms and keep his face slightly lighter. I also used lots of other effects like playing around with the curves and deepening and and lightening certain parts and adding shadows to certain parts etc. I couldn't figure out how to do a scar so I used the smudge tool and i think it came off quite decent.

 In this picture i took 2 photos: one of him standing there by himself and the other him with his hands how you see in the picture here to your left. I literally just used the clone stamp tool to create his eyes and mouth and the burn tool around those parts. I then cut around him using the pen tool and put a black image as the background and selected certain lighting to make his face stand more out.

 For the 3rd  picture you see here i took a picture of a girls eye but couldn't quite get it right as it was blurry so the camera had to be set the mode with the flower on it and it took a very good extreme close close up of the eye but then i had to go to the top of the spiral staircase and take a photo of it going all the way down where i then put both the images into Photoshop, cut the eye out, put the stairs layer behind the girl layer and size it to fit nicely behind the eye where i then set both of them to grey-scale and played around with the curves tool for more effect.
The 4th and final picture you see is quite simple as i just took a photo of someones hands and used the pen tool and the rubber tool to get rid of all the unnecessary things i didn't need and put a black background behind it.

 Here I've uploaded all the example pictures for you to compare and on some of them i put my own little twist. Enjoy!

In this lesson we had to go onto a website called "dafont"and we typed our product name in and loads and loads of different kinds of fonts came up and what we had to do is use the snipping tool to select what font we wanted then snip it and copy and paste the snipped area into Photoshop then once you have 5 fonts to pick from we can blog them. I picked these 5 because i thought if we had lots of different fonts we could easily have a good range to pick from rather than them all the same. i picked the first one because its rough and bold, the second one because its modern but funky, the third one because its scribbled looking, the forth font because its kind of an 1800's cowboy kinda theme and finally the last one because its bold but has white blood splatters on it. Non of these could end up being the final one as i have two other people working on the fonts also so ill add the final product at the end below  and talk about why we picket that specific one.

The second logo ended up being our actual logo because it's about an energy nutrition bar and the text that comes to mind when I say "AVIDITY" is that one because it looks quite bouncy and professional etc. i used tools from Photoshop like the bevel and shadow which was amazing because it let me make my product stand out and actually make it look really nice. I also used the magic wand tool which was very helpful in making cutting out with the pen tool super easy because it got rid of a lot of background stuff that i didn't want.