Task
1
Create a document showing an understanding of the product you are
creating photographs for, discuss the styles and themes you will explore in
your Photographs in order to fit the product and consider potential
locations.
Our main focus for our
photo shoot is the print industry, unfortunately we didn’t hear back from
either the Herald, the printing shop down on the Barbican or the Harmsworth
Printing. So we are going to have to think of a new plan on where to get the
photos. Our theme for our photo shoot will be print related; we are considering
creating a photo collage out of a variety of photo’s we are yet to take. We
were thinking of creating a large picture of either the Plymouth City College
logo or putting them into letters to spell out the college.
Our product is a poster
for our college course, Cambridge Technical diploma level 2. In this our aim is
to persuade potential students to consider taking on the course full time or
part time. In order to persuade the target audience (students of any age, so
adolescents to adults) our photos must meet the interests of the target
audience. So if they are interested in media already then the best thing to do
is to get photos of students at work in and out of the classroom doing both
theory and practical work. Theory work mostly consists of computer work and
writing out word documents so that is relatively simple to complete, however if
we are attempting to get the media students completing practical work then we
may have to consider other legislation acts as well as the data protection act
where we would only need a signature from the model or the models parents or
legal guardians if they are under 18. But the most important thing to remember
is our main theme, print. Print is about newspapers and any other form of media
which can be put onto paper itself, so this would also mean flyers, newsletters
and other forms of media and advertising. If we want to get photos of the media
students completing practical work then we could consider them advertising
their final pieces so maybe we could get photos of the students creating their
posters and printing them off or something similar.
When considering styles
and themes it is probably best to keep backgrounds and fonts simple yet
effective. If we are having colourful backgrounds then we need to consider what
colour and what font the text will be so we can feel positive that the reader
can actually read it. So maybe if we just have a simple gradient background and
a coloured text then we can put all of our focus and imagination into the photo
editing, that way we can discuss a range of ideas in how to make the photo’s
more eye catching. Ways to do this can be tinting the photo meaning that the
whole picture has a soft shade of a colour going over it. If we do this then we
would have to consider the colour and the intensity of it over the photos.
There are a couple of
restrictions within the photo editing, if there are models in the photos we
cannot alter their appearance in any way, we can make the picture itself have
different effects (i.e. soft focus, etc.) but we cannot just change the way the
model looks as it is completely changing their identity almost. We cannot
change their skin colour, eye colour, physique, without their consent and even
if they agree to this we have to consider a certain extent on how far we go
with it. However we highly doubt we will be changing anyone’s appearance in our
photos and may just consider other special effects. We can achieve these simple
effects with a simple program used in Photoshop or any other form of photo
editing software.
