Today i received my feed back from Darwin College, which i was very pleased with, as it was not what i expected. The feedback all in all was rather positive, they seemed to like our video, and liked how we gave across our message of ‘risk’ in a thought-provoking and interesting way. However they would have liked to see more about the people who have suffered from these, which if i were to do again i would add in.
Final video
If i had more time to produce my video, i think i would have produced more images, and had more of a variety of shots of the images we already have. I think i would have also used a variety of close-ups from each image, instead of just one or two. To make the whole video just that little more abstract.
I think i would also change the soundtrack that we used. We used something from garageband, however, if i had more time i think we would have come up with something a little more origional and something that would have perhaps fit more with the final video.
Plan ahead
I have learnt that you can come across some issues die to lack of planning ahead. Such as there have been days at coleridge where Hannah and i have been and an end, not really knowing what to do next. However, when we did plan for the next day i felt in as if i was in a better mind frame to work in.
Save work on a memory stick
Having to move our images to and from longroad and coleridge has been a bit of a hassle. And there has been a few problems with the sofware on the coleridge computers not being new enough, even though we have been told that they are better than to computers we have access to and longroad. Also if we ever forgot to save our images to a memory stick then we would be at a loose end, and left with nothing to do.
Always be prepared for the worst
Unfortunately on the last day, we planned to take the rest of our images in the morning and edit them in the first half of the afternoon and put them all together in the second half of the afternoon, giving us plenty of time. However, we weren’t given a camera in the morning and had to wait until the afternoon until we were given one. This meant that we had nothing to do in the morning and that we didnt have much time in the afternoon to fit in taking the images, editing them AND putting them altogeher.
These are the before and after shots of the images we used in our video. We edited these photos in photoshop, and put them in greyscale or black and white, and highlighted parts of the image, i.e the tap measure; overlaying it with a white colour, making the tape measure the main focus of the image. I am pleased with how the images turned out, and i have learned new techniques on photoshop.
Today we didn’t manage to edit the photo’s of the skeleton that we took, and Emma forgot to bring in the barbie’s, which were needed for our other images. However we will have plenty of time to take these tomorrow morning in Coleridge. Then in the first half of the afternoon, we will edit our images, and put them altogether in the second half, and add effects.
I am happy in with the images we produced today of the skeleton, and after they have been edited i think they will work really well in our video. I am also very happy with the images we have edited already.
This is an edited photo of myself, to make me look anorexic. We achieved this on photoshop by liquefying my face to make my face look skinnier. We also highlighted the bags under my eyes to give me a more gormless.
This is a photo of Emma, which we have edited to make her look as if she was on the front of a magazine. We achieved this by making her hair blonder and eyes bluer, also changing the saturation and brightness levels.
Tomorrow we are going to start taking and editing images, Hannah, tonight will be taking photo’s of her next door neighbour, which we will be editing tomorrow. We shall also be taking photo’s of the skeleton at college in our second lesson, and also the images of the Barbie’s, which Emma will bring in tomorrow. Then, if we have time, edit those too.
Hannah and i have now got a new group member - Emma. She was off ill for a week with tonsilitus, and fell too behind to carry on with her own project, so we have merged her idea with ours and come up with, once again, a new idea. We are keeping our idea as it is already, just with adding some new factors in with it. We are now adding it parts of emma’s idea, which is simular to our second idea, and can be linked to the causes of anorexia and bulimia - how the media influeneces adolecent girls to look. We have also been told that we have to have the work ‘risk’ so we shall take photo’s of her younger sister, wearing the lastest fashion, and holding a a sign, spelling out ‘R-I-S-K’ this will be flashing up between our images and at the end you shall see what she is spelling out, and also how old she really is.
