Wednesday 25th January 2012

Hey Dolls and Gents! Today for our media lesson we joined another media class to receive a tutorial on how to use photoshop. The teacher went through photoshop with us by picking a simple picture of bits of chocolate on a table and experimenting on the picture with us by using different types of photoshop tools. In my opinion, even though photoshop is quite tricky. It more of a trial and error thing. You try new stuff when you discover new tools and then you try them on your image and see if they would make any affect which would attract your target audience. I haven't got the image i was working on unfortunately or else i would've uploaded it but i will definitly show you some of my other trails and errors with photoshop before i start on the preliminary task. Things i learned this lesson was the different types of tools on Photoshop and what effects they make on your image. This is for example, " the plastic wrap" tool. This tool gives your image white bubble looking spots which gives an effect of your image being wrapped in plastic. Another example is " the patchwork tool". This tool gives the image a look of that when you take a picture of a video. A bit patchy and distracting. The thing i didnt really understand this lesson was how to use Photoshop. I used Photoshop last year and got on with it quite well but the knowledge of how to use it faded away but thanks to the lesson things slighty started popping up in my head and i was quite familair with some things already.

Friday 20th January 2012

Hey Dolls and Gents, today in media we had a look at magazine covers. For our main assignment we would have to make a magazine cover, but for our preliminary task which has to be done before the main assignment, a magazine cover needs to be produced to. In this case, this is for a school. So the teacher got us to draw our plan of what our school magazine front cover would like look and thats what we got on with for that lesson. We were told that the picture must have a pupil in it which its a medium close up of and text. A picture of my sketch of the school magazine cover will be attached to this post.

Wednesday 18th January 2012

Hey Dolls and Gents, today i got sent to a different media class alongside my two best media buddies, Tanya Yiri and Kadisha Green. ( Love You Girls! Lool) The reason for this action made by the media teacher is because the class that she was sending us to was much smaller compared to the class i used to be in. And since that class is much more loud aswell and us three keep to ourselves and are the quiet and shy ones, she thought she might aswel put us with our "type". Which in my opinion is a good idea because if it was one of the loud ones, it would've distracted the other class. So its all Good! anyway, the class we got sent to is lovely and the teacher is wonderful aswel. The class was one lesson behind us though, so the covered the same intro about the upcomng assignment we covered that friday before. We did set up our blogs though on this date, and had a play around with them to explore new things and get use to the daily blogging thing. It seemed kind of annoying and complicated to me at first but now i find it pretty cool. Things that i didn't really understand were stuff like how to create new posts, how to change the theme for my blog, how to add friend etc. but this was obviously because it was new to me. Now i've gotten the hang of it.

Friday 13th January 2012

Hey Dolls and Gents, its friday the 13th of january and we just had our Key Media Concepts exam. In my opinion it went very well and it wasn't as hard as i thought it will be. All my scareness was also not needed. Anyway, to the main topic of today; later on that evening we covered our first lesson which was about our next assignment that we will be doing. This is the assignment that includes producing a music magazine cover, contents page and article. What i learned this lesson is all about the new assignment, the purpose of the assignment, what the assignment is itself and etc. Moving on, we took a look at past student's work of the same assignment they participated in and we analysed each and everyone of their work, distincting the weaker ones from the stronger ones based on the editing they done on Photoshop. The contents page seemed to be the one that people struggled with most. Most of them looked cheap, there were just a few that looked really unique. I hope mine turns out well lol. I understood everything this lesson, and nothing was said to me that i misundertood or confused.

Introduction

Introduction

Hey dolls and gents. My name is Vanessa and i'm all new to this Blog thingie, but for some reason i really can't wait to begin! Well, this concerns blog part, the actual production part with Photoshop seems quite hard but i'm sure i'll get the hang of it . Practise make Perfect! You're probably thinking what the hell is she talking about. Well i'm only using this blog for my media assignment. This is to make a music magazine cover, contents page and an article. But this is all done with photoshop. With this blog, i'll be posting every single media lesson; what learned during the lesson, what we done, what i understood and what i misunderstood. In addition, i'll also be posting assignments which were done for homework, to show my progress and understanding of music magazines and photoshop.