Production

I used such tools as the

• The magic rubber
• Rubber
• Fill colour
• paintbrush
• layers
• Rectangular marquee tool
• font tools like
• size
• colour
• font
• Move images

These tools I knew how to use but there were tool like the magic eraser that I didn't know how to use before and helped me a lot in the making of the magazine. I used the magic rubber tool because It enabled me to remove the whole background in one click, but the problem with this is that sometimes it has problems with decided what is the background and what is the foreground, This happened when I deleted the background of my main picture, some of the colours of the shirt were cut out so I used the Eye drop tool to sample the colour of the colour of the T-shirt and use the paintbrush tool to colour in the missing parts, I did this zoomed in so if you were viewing the magazine at a normal size you couldn't see the blending of the colors.
I had 9 layers on my front covers and 16 on my contents page, I created them by going on file open and selected the image I wanted to put in the magazine from the folder my pictures.
Used boxes of colour to give the pages a more attractive layout, I selected the square tool, drew a box and filled it in with the fill tool.

Evaluation

I thought that my magazine went really well eventually, the style and layout of it came out as I had intended, though I would have wanted the mid shot main picture to be stretched more so it covered more of the page, but I couldn't do that with this image because it would have become pixilated. Maybe it could have had more strap lines so the cover doesn't look so sparse. In a "real" magazine there would be a lot more going on like offers and exclusive strap lines to show interviews with celebs.

The colors scheme of brown, silver and red went really well, I felt that the colors were easy to look at and not to bright. I picked these colors because they were calming and would appeal to say a musical student who would want a quiet sit down and a magazine to read. 

The only problem I could see with my contents page was that I neglected to have page numbers on the article strap lines, so there wouldn't be much point on having a contents page if you didn't know what pages they were on.

 The photoshopping of the pictures went more smoothly as i had used photoshop before and I knew what tools I should use to get the best results.  I didn't have any other problems other than running out of disc space when I had to save the files as J- pegs so I could upload them onto my blog.

I thought that I could have edited the magazine quicker if I would have used the magic eraser tool I could have saved a lot of time.

The reason I was able to gain all the photo's in such a quick time is because we went out in a group and took the pictures all in one sitting.

We had a good selection of pictures because Rupert took them on his high quality camera.



Mock Ups

First of all we had to design a Front cover and a contents page, they both had to have mast heads and the cover had to have a close up of a mid shot, it had to cover 2 thirds of the page because that's the most interesting part of the magazine. I decided to name my magazine essay because it had more of a link to school life than my previous idea for the title(okul). I felt that my Target market would be 14-19 year old's in the school who take music or are interested in joining some type of musical activity in the school.
I decided to make my magazine around depression and how to revise for your exams, and if you get bad results it has a article on how to cope with them.
The main article is about what the school can do for you musically.
I am going to have my colour scheme as silver ,red and brown. I chose this colour scheme because it will appeal to my target audience and its also easy to use.
For my titles I will use the website http://cooltext.com/ this will give a more professional view.
The masthead will be bold and silver, this will stand out and immediately tell the reader what the magazine is called and what it is about.
In my mock ups  the front cover has a mid shot of a guitar, I later decided to change this to a picture of a person in stead because it will appeal to a larger target audience. The masthead covers the top part of the picture and there are cover lines going across the page about the main part of the articles.
On my contents page I had set it out so there would be a picture to every strap line.

Preliminary Task Evaluation

I thought that our group managed the task quite well. We filmed the other group's storyboards to the letter so if there were any flaws in the camera angles they were not our fault.
Also I thought that our groups storyboard made sense and the other group didn't ask to many questions about the angles or directions that the characters had to take.

The only problems we had with our filming were when we watched back what we had captured and we saw that there were some continuity errors like blinds in the background being at different heights in different takes of the shots.
Though other than that the team worked well together there weren't any other flaws (except the corruption of the video file which ment that another member of the team had to finish editing the video at home).
Our group pulled through at the end and we finished the video to the specifications of the task outline.

Production

We first had to exchange our storyboards and dialogues with another groups and film each others this was to see if they were clear enough to be filmed correctly. We had to film the storyboard exactly as written so flaws of the others groups storyboards would be shown.

Equipment used : A camera

The camera was of good quality so scenes wouldn't be grainy. But the camera would have 2 second delay when you presses record so sometimes you wouldn't capture certain parts that you wanted or parts that you didn't want, this was a problem because it meant that more time would have to spent editing the film so time was lost.

A tripod: The tripod was a good tool to use because it could hold the shot stiller than someone's hand, also the tripod we used had a spirit level built in so we could see if the shot we were taking was level or not.
I got to shoot some of the shots like part of Rupert opening the door and I was also able to edit some of the movie on Premiere elements like cutting scenes up and putting them in the right order that we needed.

Pre Production

The task we were set was to shoot a 2 minute movie of a character walking through a door,  crossing the room, sitting down and exchanging a few lines of dialogue with the other character who is also sitting down.
We started by getting into groups of up to five people, once we had established the groups we each had to give idea's to how we could make the clip, we decided to go for the more comical approach and have the main character visit an opticians and read off of my t shirt.
After this idea was solid we all had to create a storyboard each, I was given the opening sequence , so I decided that the main character would walk to the camera and keep coming until he's just about to hit it then he would walk left to avoid hitting the camera. My other shot was a close-up of  the main characters legs, and the camera would be panning backwards keeping the legs in shot the whole time.

Magazine covers

Magazine Covers

Detail needed for a good magazine cover.

• Mast Head
• cover lines to give interesting information and to draw the reader in
• A 3 colour palette, less than three looks UN professional , more than three looks tacky.
• Usually a good mid shot for the front cover in the centre of the page, The top third of the page is the most important.
• Mention celebrities to boost sales and interest in the reader's
• A variety of fonts, colours, sizes add visual interest
• The cover lines are called plugs or lures, because they might attract the customer
• Use of direct pro noun creates involvement

1. Mast heads

• They go across the page
• Reflect the magazines style
• If the mast head is in small it might suggest that its a informal magazine 
• It can go over or under the main photograph

2. Cover Lines

• Hyperbole
• Shows Value
• alliteration shows interest
• Lures to make it look like a bargain
• colours and font represent the target audience

What I need to consider when planning my Magazine cover.

• Target audience- students aged 14-19
• Types of features-reflective cover lines
• What language will be used in the title-eg colloquial 
• What type of person in the main photograph
• 5-6 photo's taken and one chosen for a mid shot on the front cover, the others will be used in the contents page
• lots of cover shots for variety-needs to match cover line+additional students from a variety of angles.

Preliminary Task

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.
This task should demonstrate match on action, shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

Story boards are essentially basic cartoon version of each shot will look like when filmed and edited.

Shots required for Prelim

Long shot

Medium shot

Close up







extreme close-up 

maintain on action

over the shoulder

Shot/reverse shot

The man behind the mask

Rhys Jenkins 16

The one with the Red Tie if you were wondering

Hi I'm Rhys, I'm into Badminton, animation,computer games , music  and probably more If I thought hard enough.

I play flute and both acoustic and electric guitar, some of my favourite bands are, ACDC, Biffy Clyro ,Foo fighters, coldplay, kings of Leon, kasabian, the Airborne Toxic event, Alberta cross,the big pink , Ben Harper , Jack Johnson and Radiohead just to name a few.
I'm in to animation by studio Ghibli, Inc. 株式会社スタジオジブリ Kabushiki-kaisha Sutajio Jiburi
some of my favorite animated movies by Studio Ghibli are

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Castle in the Sky My Neighbour Totoro Porco Rosso Princess Mononoke Howl's Moving Castle Tales from Earthsea

The Five C's

Camera angles
Continuity
Cutting
Close ups
Composition

When telling the audience where the film is set use a long shot, this lets you show all the Important information.





A medium shot is the most commonly used shot in Cinema.


It is used to show any character interaction.

Having someone or something in a close up shot tells the audience that it is important.
Its a simple shot thats always used in action movies.

continuity generally refers to a visual error. In very basic terms it means having a character in a red top one second then a blue top the next.