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evaluation

7. evaluation from james Gannon

Development Diary Week 6

18/05/2018

Development Diary Week 6

This week i finished my first double page spread and made a start on the second one. For the second double page i decided to go for the theme of Equipment to tell new divers and general people what equipment is used while diving and the various costs of each item. This week was a difficult one for me because i really wanted to change my project but was told that it would require too much work to complete as we were already 5 weeks in. I feel like i am more motivated to do a different concept than continue with the theme of diving but i can't change it now. Im struggling for ideas with this project now but i guess i have to keep on going. The idea behind this layout is that it is not just pictures on the left and the text is on the right. I wanted a little bit of variety which will stand out to the reader. i did my research on each of the pieces of equipment i had photographed and added the cost in the description of what it is, does and why its useful/needed for. For the information about cost, i just used google for a rough estimate of what you would be looking at in terms of cost.
I really enjoyed photographing the different pieces of scuba equipment and editing it into Photoshop to create a double page spread for my magazine. 

Development Diary Week 5

11/05/2018

Development Diary Week 5

This week i focused on completing the first three front cover designs to try figure out which one i liked best for my final product. I had made the decision that the photograph where the diver was a long distance away would be the type of photo i would incorporate into my design. I have planned a dive for Sunday the 13th where i will be going to Capernwray Quarry to get some underwater shots of another diver. my plan for this weekend is to get as many photos as i can of different things to give myself plenty of different ways to make my product look good. The more photos i have the better because it gives me leverage on how i can make my magazine look nicer. I have another 3 weeks so i can experiment with different photos to see which on looks more professional and more like a magazine that someone would be interested in buying. 

The next step for me is to create a double page spread for my magazine. The plan is to get a few photographs of the diving equipment i have used and section them out so that i talk about what the photograph is showing, how much it costs and what it does. I thought this would be a good idea to try and sell the equipment to new divers (and experienced divers). This is a good way of telling people what they need to look out for when going to a dive shop and if they are interested in learning a new hobby, how much roughly it would cost them to start. 

This type of magazine layout is great for new people to see what everything does and learn new things about the kit they are about to use. This will be a type of design i will incorporate into my final double page spread. Its well laid out and clearly sectioned out. The text boxes are next to the images they are talking about and  it's also very clear what they say about the equipment. The front of the magazine is also quite nice with the main image placed at the right of the page with a nice contrasting text colour for the title. The text in both yellow and white stand out against the blue background and is really eye catching to a person who might be walking by. This is a great way to advertise the product of the magazine and influence people into diving at the same time. 

Development Diary Week 4

04/05/2018

Development Diary week 4 

This week i finished off the remaining work for my production experiments and pre production. I then started generating a few more ideas to add to my actual production. 

 

This was the first front cover for a magazine i had produced this week. I used grid lines to keep my text boxes organised which resulted in everything being in place. Tog get the grid lines i had to go onto Adobe InDesign to get a 6 by 6 grid. i ad to then screenshot the grid and put it onto photoshop over my actual image. I think that if i didn't rush this, it would look a lot nicer and more professional. However i still think that it looks good enough to be a front cover.

The next front cover was slightly different with the main image being a lot closer and more centered.  This front cover was the exact same as the first one but just a different image to see what the layout would be like with two seperate images to get an idea of what to photograph for my final front cover project.
I enjoyed making the two front cover dsigns 

production reflection powerpoint

6. production reflection from james Gannon

Proposal

2. proposal from james Gannon

Pre Production

5. pre production from james Gannon

Production Experiments

4. production experiments from james Gannon

Development diary week 1

Development Diary Week 1

This week was the start of our final major project for this year, We started by listening to what we had to produce over the course of the nine weeks we have left. We then sat down at the computers and wrote our initial response, mine was a rather happy response as i liked that we had to do 3 to 4 different products which wasn't aided by the tutor. This meant that i had full responsibility and creativity when thinking about what i wanted to do and how i wanted to do it. This was the part of the course that i really wanted to do because i could just be me. 

After i wrote my initial response, I went on to doing 3 different mind maps of three potential ideas that i could do for my project. This took a while unfortunately because although i thought of three separate ideas, i didn't know what to write about them or how i could include it in the final thing. I then went on to getting my moodboard altogether. My moodboard had 15 seperate images of the 1 idea i had that i was really interested in which was diving. I had to find the images on the internet and then talk about what they had in common, the differences between them and if any of the photos inspired me enough to make me add a factor of that in my final design.

Later that week i had difficulty getting any underwater photos because of multiple setbacks like me having a cold, my dive partner not having the right equipment, and the good old English rain that made the visibility less than 1 metre. However, i will try my best to get enough photographs to make my products work, or i will have to improvise using different techniques on photoshop to aid me in my final project. 

I am really looking forward to the rest of this project and to see the work that i do in research and experiments to the end product. 

Development Diary Week 3

24/04/2018

Development Diary Week 3

Day 1 - Today i learnt how to photo manipulate using Photoshop. This was fun to do because it included so many different techniques and tools that it made the overall product look realistic and satisfying to complete. The photo manipulation idea was a completely new concept to me and was rather difficult to do at first because of all of the different things i had to do to get to my final outcome.
Day 2 - Today i focused on making a few changes to normal underwater photography where i had an image of a seahorse that was surrounded by back scatter. I worked on getting rid of the backscatter while trying to keep the background the way it was. To do this i used the spot healing brush tool to get rid of as much of the particles as possible. during this process i came across 1 main issue which was that everytime i used the spot healing tool to get rid of the particles, it would also change the background, which i didn't want happening.
Day - 3 Today i spent my time doing some research into underwater photography and read up more information on photomanipulation as i am really interested in it and would like to create something similar in my final product.

Development Diary Week 2

20/04/20 

                                               Development Diary Week 2

This week we started creating our experiments for our Final major project. For the first experiment i did, i researched how to clear backscatter from an image taken underwater. The technique used was hard to follow so i tried finding a new video with more simple instructions until i came across a video which explained it all in a short period of time. I then took my image and changed the colour ratio to show the backscatter a lot clearer which allowed me to remove it using the healing brush tool as     well as some others like the burn tool and sharpen to make the seahorse stand out a little bit more. For my next image i will research a new technique and have a quick go at it to see i i like it enough to add into my final design. Most of the techniques look really good and i will try add as many different techniques as possible to achieve a good final piece of work.

Research

3. research(1) from james Gannon

Initial Plans

1. initial plans from james Gannon