Pick and Mix

This is the name of our picture gallery website. We decided on the name Pick and Mix as we didn't want a specific theme, we wanted it to be full of random images that we liked hence 'pick' and 'mix' as this was different to anything anyone else was doing. there were little coloured squares with names home, image one, image two etc. They all linked up to a page and every page was linked.

When we showed the website to everyone in the class, we were picked up on the white background. I think we chose this because we wanted the squares and images to standout and i do think it works. it works better on a screen than projected on a wall. It might have still looked good with different coloured backgrounds, perhaps thats something we should have tested.

Everyones websites looked great, i was really impressed with them all. i think everyone was at the same sort of level though. i wouldn't say any stood out more than others particularly. 

Photoshop is complicated

We were given one non edited picture that badly NEEDED editing! so we got to work.

we cropped and saved, changed and saved and so on. as a group we changed the contrast and the colour, we made the gold brighter and other parts darker. Id say it looks good now like something out of a travel magazine. I think we got the just of photoshop! its complicated.

Pre-Production

This tasks aim was to research and look at the pre-production stages for creating a piece of digital media. All of this had to be presented in a powerpoint. 

I had missed this lesson so i was completely lost! i asked a classmate Andy for a photocopy of the brief but that didn't help at all. With what i knew i started the process anyway. I wanted to create a book cover for alice in wonderland. I looked at what alice in wonderland is and who its audience is. Then i researched other book covers already made. I drew some basic covers then made a coloured one. After that i Printed off different font that would look good on the cover. 

i didn't end up making a powerpoint but it turned out we didn't need to anyway. so i was lucky in a way. I don't think i was the only one confused about what to do. 

This project helped me to realise what processes need to do into making a piece of digital media. it was fun to do as i haven't actually done much illustration while I've been here.  

Research Mesearch

This task was to research certain subjects looking at various websites and labelling them in order of reliability. I enjoyed this as i found it easy to tell and i liked judging the websites. I was teamed up with constantin who helped, at times we both had different views but we were both right on different things.

The majority all thought the same thing, we all sort of have the same answers. I learnt to look for the person who published it, weather the website is well known and the overall content.

Our 1st Presentation

Our group did our presentation based on photoshop. We all did some research individually and came together as a group to make the presentation on powerpoint, with lots of help from Constantin. I thought that our presentation was okay but it would have been a bit more interesting if we had a video and something to catch everyones attention.

 looking at everyones presentations i liked Laura and lauren's as they had some videos to watch. I don't think we were all as organised as we may have thought. Some peoples presentation wouldn't start, some videos wouldn't work, some people just didn't turn up and some people simply put too many or too little words in. Even though all that happened i think for a first we all did pretty well! You learn from yours and others mistakes and thats how you improve. I will be checking to see if my presentations work in the room I'm doing it in from now on.