Freak or Unique magazine advert with development sketches

In this blog I'm going to show you how our product came along, as you can see this here, this is our product of what it will look like after all the Photoshop effects have been added to it.

Here you can see the dimensions of the avidity bar. This took a while to figure out and was probably the hardest thing I've had to do out of the whole process yet, it was very frustrating but a good feeling when i got it done.

This is the finished magazine product for avidity bar, its very detailed and has a big "out there" headline. Also it has the bar clearly see able in the top middle of the page and has all the nutrition properties it offers you below in a big star.















You can see here below and the the left how the actual dimensions of the bar will look after everything is done so you can image that all folded up and taped together with chocolate inside.

Here below you can see the sketch that we did for the bar and i think we did a pretty good job on creating it in Photoshop and making it look professional and making it actually look like the sketch.

library

We had a show around the library and was told what it does and basically we had to pick a book that we found interesting and i found this book really interesting. Its called "op to pop furniture of the 1960's" and its to do with furniture of the 1960's and shows you what furniture is like, if you'd like to see some furniture you can look below here at the pictures. We also learned that the libraries right side computers have got mostly Photoshop on most of them but the left side has non because the right side is the creative side.

slogan examples

In this lesson we learnt about slogans and we were given this sheet and had to guess what company the slogans were for but then we had to describe how they sold their products. For example NIKE and their just do it slogan are famous and its like they're saying just buy it or just do it why not with their "just do it" slogan.

seamless background

In this lesson we were taught how to set up a seamless background and as you can see there is an object on the table but it needed a white background so we taped up a white background for the object, then got tape to hold the white background into place, plugged the red light in and adjusted the barn doors so that the light was directed in the way it was supposed to be and also set the tripod up to the right height with the camera tightly fastened so it doesn't fall off and finally then took the picture.

Photography proposal

For the assignment set, i want to create a freaky or unique (hopefully both) magazine advertisement using the photography cameras i will take the these following lessons.

For props i don't need any as the four of them chosen only needs someone to pose with a camera which i can borrow from photography. Shooting people in front of the camera wont be a problem as i have already asked them and got approval from them that they are okay to be in front of the camera and are okay to have their photo taken.

For the photographs i need to take id need some equipment like the cameras and red heads. Using humans as my subjects wont be hard at all as I'm going to cut around them anyway and put a black picture as the background. The locations that I'm going to use are mainly in the classroom apart from i need to use the spiral staircase that is right next to it.

The considerations that i will have to think of while shooting my images are that I'm using a room with lots of windows and the sun normally comes blasting in so I'm thinking that could mess my photo up. I could put something in front of the windows but I highly doubt id be able to cover all of them and then some of the persons face would be covered by shadows. I think I'm going to have to use the red lights to get rid of the light a bit and direct the light where i want it then try and work wonders in the Photoshop stage of the editing process.

Once I'm at the Photoshop editing process i'll use tools that are called "curves" and "levels" to adjust the colour contrast of the imagery. The main tool that i will be using is a tool called the "pen" tool in which you can use to cut things out of and place them. I will also be using the "blur" tool and the "burn" tool. I hope that this will help my images to look more professional and a whole lot better (and more freaky). I feel like using all these images and effects will make them look a whole lot cooler and also help me to develop my skills.

One of the only obstacles that i feel like i will encounter is editing the pictures using all of those tool that i have described as i think that sometimes its a bit if a head wreck but all together it should hopefully go okay.

Photography evaluation

Our assignment was to recreate 4 freaky images for our advert. Our first task was to do some research online and find 10 freaky images that we liked and narrow it down to just 4 to then recreate them, edit them in Photoshop to make them look even creepier and put those 4 images together as a mashup/montage.  Here are the 4 images that inspired me.

The first image of mine is of my friend holding a camera with a quite creepy, menacing smile and i also photo-shopped a scar above and below his eye for added creepiness impact on the picture. The second image of mine that you see is freaky or unusual because it has a man covering one of his eyes and his mouth but instead of it being behind his hands they're in front of them which is quite creepy and weird. The third image (below) is of a womans eye but this isn't any normal eye, the pupil and the colouring around it has been cut out and replaced with a picture of a spiraling staircase. Then the 4th picture is of hands. But freakishly enough they aren't actually hands they're just the fingers because the hands and in between have been cut out.

what were your ideas? refer to your proposal - outline what is was you intended to do.

My ideas as you can see in my proposal are that i would be creating a magazine advert that would be freaky and unique using skills that i have acquired through lessons using Photoshop and using the college cameras, my idea was to recreate 4 freaky and/or unique pictures for my advert, the only props needed was a camera for someone to pose with on one of my pictures which was fine and i intended overall to just make 4 really freaky, well edited good pictures for my advert and personally i think i achieved that.

For the actual photography i had to take into account many things like for the eye picture i had to turn the dial on the camera to the flower image so i could take a better, not blurry picture then i had to find a location for the stairs which would of been hard if the college didn't have a cool spiral staircase next to us. For the hands picture i was going to buy fake fingers but couldn't find any which was a problem so i had to take a picture of someones hands and then edit it all in Photoshop. The creepy man with the scar was probably my favorite as i too a really cool picture of my friend and i couldn't quite figure out how to do the scar so i used the smudge effect on Photoshop instead, the location was easy as i cut round the background anyway but i had to get red lights to shine on his face to make his face bright. The man with the Photo-shopped lips and eyes was okay to find a location and i didn't need any props for it nor did i need any equipment apart from red lights and a camera ans finding the model was easy as i just asked the person next to me.

The final shots were edited decently. For the picture with the man and the scar holding the camera 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 the way i wanted 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.

For the man covering his eye and hand with the lips and eyes showing 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 eyeball, staircase picture 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.

Finally the fingers picture. It's 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's all the 4 final pictures for you to see:

Honestly if i had to do it differently next time i would do it so much different. The first picture you see i would of kept everything the same that i did as i like that picture but i don't like the 2nd one as i think it looks a bit rubbish so id of changed that one with a different kind of one. The third picture i like as i think its quite cool but i don't like the last picture with the fingers because i feel like it looks rushed and cheaply made even though it wasn't, id of probably ordered some fake prop fingers online and done it that way instead.

In my opinion i think that the four pictures i created does meet the assignment briefs and my original proposal.

photography. 10 images i narrowed down to about 4

 In this blog im going to be showing you my 10 images i picked and the 4 im going to narrow it down to.
Here you can see this first image with a girl sitting down with fairy lights on her head. I didn't end up doing this image though as i couldn't find fairy lights anywhere. the second image that we come to is one of the images that i recreated because i thought it looked really cool and wouldn't take hours on hours to recreate. The third image you see i didn't really take a second look at after some thought because i have no idea as to where id find a window like that. The 4th  image is the image with the creepy man holding the camera and i actually recreated this because i thought it looked freaky as hell. The 5th image i considered doing but i didn't because other images looked way better like the 7th image on the screen which i recreated because it looks awesome and i thought it wouldn't be too bad to recreate. The 6th image looks really cool and i kind of wish i did it because it looks so good but sadly i couldn't find a narrow road that looks like that anywhere. The 8th picture was similar to one i had already picked and didn't look as good which is why i didn't pick that one. The 9th picture is also one which i recreated because i thought it looked cool and i believed in myself that i could recreate it and i did and finally the 10th and final image you see looks super cool but i already had my 4 that i wanted to recreate and i thought it was way out of my skill range to try and recreate that. Maybe later on in the year i will.