Media
and their audiences
For this unit, ‘The Media and Their Audiences’ I had to come
up with 18 creative images. These had to include:
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Advertising
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Radio
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Television
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Cinema
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New Media
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Print
For these images I had to combine pictures I have taken with
a digital camera with different images off the internet to do with the
different topics I have mentioned at the top. I found this unit hard in places,
and challenging, I overcome these problems by putting more time into my work,
to make it seem more appealing and to make it look better.
I think that my final images illustrate t6he brief I was
given very well, because I took my time to decide what images I was going to
create and very carefully planned everything out. My final images, all worked
out exactly like I wanted and planned them to work out,
I think the strongest images I created were the radio images
and the new media images. I think this because I spent the most time on them,
and I think that they were very unique ideas. I also think that I have edited
them very well, and they all go very well together, also
My weakest images where I would say where the Advertising
images. I think this because I could have come up with some better ideas, and I
could have took more time while producing these images. Also I would say 2 of
the images are pretty much the same, because I did not exactly follow what I
said I was going to create on my final ideas piece.
To edit my images I used Adobe Photoshop. For example I
cropped some of my images to help them to fit the screen and to make sure all
of my images where the size of an A4 sheet of paper. I also used to colour
adjustment tool, to make some of my images brighter and darker, this was so the
images I took with a digital camera didn’t look to out of colour with the
images I got off the internet.
I think my images technical qualities were fairly good, this
is because the print quality of my images was good as they all fitted well onto
an A4 piece of paper; also I think that the lighting of my images went very
well as both images have the same lighting and both go very well together.
When I presented my work as an exhibition to an audience, I
overall got very good feedback. This was because overall I have spent a lot of
time trying to make my images to the best of my ability, as I am not that
knowledgeable on Photoshop, I tried my best, and people seemed to like it. I
gave out a detailed questionnaire so I would be able to get detailed answers
and also ways to improve my work. In total I got 15 questionnaires filled out,
this enabled me to figure out what changes I could make if I was to do this
unit again.
People and their
hero’s
I think my images go very well with the brief I was given,
as I have taken every photo differently so they are able to fit the pose that
their hero is creating. Also I think that I spent a lot of time deciding what
poses I was going to ask people to do, so that I could complete my images to
best of my ability.
I took the photographs of the people I used very differently
for each image. I did this by carefully looking at each internet image and
decided what angle I was going to take the photograph. I also had to decide
what pose I was going to ask the person I used in each image to do I found this
reasonably easy.
For the final images, I had to combine the internet image of
the hero and the photograph I took of the person. For some of the images I had
to find a suitable background to put both images on. I found it hard to cut out
some photographs but I still tried very hard.
I feel that I have created the final images well, but I
could have put more effort into a few of the images, as I could have cut them
out a bit better and also put some of them into proper proportion. I feel that
my best image is the image of my uncle and Kevin Keegan, this is because I
think that I spent the most time on this image, and I feel that it was the
easiest to do out of all my final images.
I think the technical qualities of my images are fairly
good. The print quality is very good as all of the images fit well onto an A4
piece of paper, and the images do not seem to be pixelated at all. The lighting
of the images if very good as I have adjusted the lighting well to go with the
internet images and the photographs I have taken.
My audience thought that my final images were presented very
well in our exhibition. They did not really have many criticisms; this was
because they thought that my images were well edited and thought out. The
biggest criticism was that most people did not understand what my images were
about, so I had to explain what our brief was. They also thought that I could
have spent more time on certain images then others. Most of my feedback came
back positive though.
Mr Lovedays Little
Outing
I think that my final images illustrate the brief very well as,
I picked the most important parts out of the story and then took photos of what
I thought would be the best parts of the story. The few sentences I chose to
illustrate helped me a lot pick what I was going to take pictures of.
I chose to illustrate what I thought was the most important
parts of the story, I took pictures of first of all a gate, I chose this to
represent the gates to the ‘Asylum’ I thought that this would be a good idea
because the whole story is about a mental home, and I thought if I took a
picture of tall gates this would represent this very well. Next I chose to take
a picture of a door, this was to represent the office door, as there are people
sitting talking in a office and it mentions somebody closing a door behind them
so I took the picture of a closed door. Next I chose to take a photograph of a
bed of flowers. I chose to take this image because in the story something
emotions something about seeing flowers, so I thought this would be a unique
idea. Finally I decided to take a photograph of a clock. I chose to do this
because towards the end of the story it talks about how they want to let Mr
Loveday out on one last outing, and they said they want to let him out at
lunchtime, which is why I have taken a picture of the clock at 12pm.
I created my final images by simply changing the colour to
greyscale on Photoshop, and then cropping them to the correct size I needed
them to fit the page in the book. I needed to crop them a lot and it took me a
lot of tries as I did not know what size the images had to be so I had to try
numerous different sizes until it looked professional. I did not have to edit
these images as much as in the other parts of this unit as I made sure I took
the images so that I would not need to edit them as much so this part of the
unit would not take as long to complete.
I think the technical quality of my final images is very
good. I think this because the lighting of my images goes very well with the
book, and I think that the print quality of my images is good because ach image
fits perfectly on the page.
I think mostly my strengths of this unit have been taking
the photographs, I think this because I find it very easy to take photographs
and I had a lot of ideas of what I was going to take photographs of. I think
that my biggest weakness was editing. I find it harder to edit and use
Photoshop this is why I think that this was my biggest weakness. I also found
it hard to complete my images on time, this was because my work sometimes did
not save correctly, and I also sometimes forget to save the Photoshop files.
The skills I have developed throughout this unit are some
editing skills, before I had completed this unit I did not know how to use Photoshop
very well, but throughout this unit I have learnt how to use the important
tools on Photoshop, and also learnt how to manage my time a little bit better,
This is because I was spending too much time on some images more than others,
and I learnt how to split my time equally between each image. I have also
learnt every different camera angle also how to take better photographs and use
a camera better.
If I was to do this unit again, I would change some of the
images I have created, this is because I think I could edit them a lot better,
and think of some much better ideas.
