3rd April 2009

In this lesson we looked at the foundation portfolio again and thought about what questions to ask ourselves when doing this work.

some questions we talked about were things like, How did you manage you?,How did you aproach ther two tasks which make up the portfolio?, are your images as you would have liked them to be? I am finding it difficult to manage time with this work and also my images did not turn out as well as i iked them to due to time and location problems, but i am able to work with them to make the turn oout better using photoshop to edit images.

Mrs Howlett gave us tips on what questions to ask ourselves when doing this work in order to make it turn out better. she also gave us tips on things that we could include in our blogs.

We have also looked at evaluation questions in class and breifly wrot down the types of answers we would give for each one when evaluating our work. Below is a scan of the type of things that i would answer for each question answered.

Other Images

Using the photos of oblivion would make my magazine look a bit boring, and as all images have to be original i could not get existing images from other sources. I decided to take more photos with different people and decided to make another band eith it and make it seem llike it already exists. I thought of using these images in my contents page.

These are some of the pictures that i have taken:

I thought about having a solo rock artist and so i asked a freind to pose as a solo rock artist. To make her look like a rock artist i have got her to wear a black wig, as most rock artist have a dark style hair or clothing.
I thought about having instruments with the pictures but it didn't really work out as well as i hoped it would. instead of making an advert for my contents page i thought that i would use an image to make an album cover.

Out of the images above i have chosen to use this image as an album cover.

I really like the pose of this image and thought that it would work well as an album cover. At first i liked the background of the image, but later i realised i wasn't quite happy with it. I changed the background of this image to a scenery background image.

I used the magic wand tool in photoshop to cut around the shape and to get rid of the background. Then i selected the cut image and took it to a different background in photoshop.

There were no red eye in the image, which i am really happy about.
After editig the background of the image i added the text onto the album cover and this is what it looks like:

I have decided to give the name KT to my solo artist and i have named her album Everlasting Memories. The background of this image looks a lot better then a plain wall background. I am happy with this Album cover. I will be using this image on my contents page of the music magazine. I have enhanced the colour of the background and the image of this album cover using photoshop. I have made it darker than its original shade.
The difference can be seen from looking at the original image of my model and the edited image.