City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(What our task was):
Our task was to produce at least 1 mind-map and at least 1 storyboard of how we were going to undergo our group Stop Motion Animations (SMA's). Using a mind-map and a storyboard are the best ways to plan out what you want to do, like a Stop Motion Animation.
All of these drawings and words combined together create some ideas on how me and my group can create a poster, weird looking, to promote the use of Durex, condoms to be precise.
Date: 13/09/13
(What our task was):
Our task was to produce at least 1 mind-map and at least 1 storyboard of how we were going to undergo our group Stop Motion Animations (SMA's). Using a mind-map and a storyboard are the best ways to plan out what you want to do, like a Stop Motion Animation.
Plans(mind-map and storyboard) for group Stop Motion Animation (SMA):
Mind-Maps and Storyboards are a great way of visual recording the processes of our task at hand. They allow us to plan out our work in a way that when we actually get underway with it, we can just follow the process we originally planned out.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
(What our task was):
Our task was to produce at least 1 mind-map and at least 1 storyboard of how we were going to undergo our individual Stop Motion Animations (SMA's). Using a mind-map and a storyboard are the best ways to plan out what you want to do, like a Stop Motion Animation.
Date: 13/09/13
(What our task was):
Our task was to produce at least 1 mind-map and at least 1 storyboard of how we were going to undergo our individual Stop Motion Animations (SMA's). Using a mind-map and a storyboard are the best ways to plan out what you want to do, like a Stop Motion Animation.
Plans(mind-map and storyboard) for my Individual Stop Motion Animation (SMA):
This mind-map and storyboard I planned out originally, when we were first told that we would be creating a group SMA and an individual SMA. This first one is about moving onions and garlic, creating a following circle and then I decided to take them out of the animation and then I decided to add pens in, whilst taking out the onions and the garlic, but keeping it all in the same animation.
After some consideration of my first plans for my own, individual SMA, I had a second idea for a slightly different SMA, but wasn't sure if it would be as flashy and weird as the first idea but I thought it would be good just to have an extra set of plans out, just incase the first tryouts for the original idea didn't work.
Evaluation on how storyboards and mind-maps are used:
How storyboards and mind-maps work is really useful to know. Imagine giving a stranger a set of plans in the form of a mind-map and storyboard. Immediately the person can see what the creator has in his mind and because, storyboards particularly, are in sequential process, they can see what comes when and at what timing and the certain set behind. Mind-maps come first as they are the initial ideas for what you want to do. Then come the storyboards, they show how all those ideas from the mind-map, combined together and then with those two plans that = the plan for your Stop Motion Animation (SMA).
How storyboards and mind-maps work is really useful to know. Imagine giving a stranger a set of plans in the form of a mind-map and storyboard. Immediately the person can see what the creator has in his mind and because, storyboards particularly, are in sequential process, they can see what comes when and at what timing and the certain set behind. Mind-maps come first as they are the initial ideas for what you want to do. Then come the storyboards, they show how all those ideas from the mind-map, combined together and then with those two plans that = the plan for your Stop Motion Animation (SMA).
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 13/09/13
All of the plans that me and my group made for the promotion of Durex (Condoms):
All of the plans that me and my group made for the promotion of Durex (Condoms):
Here is my own poster design, created for advertising the promotional use of Durex, the use of condoms.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 16/09/13
The method or group work (was it an enjoyable process)
In the past I have always found it quite difficult to work in groups. They have never really been my quite my cup of tea. I have always preferred working on my own. I am still like that now, but I am a little more relaxed about it now because all of my fellow peers are interested in a subject that I am studying and that makes it a little easier for me to work in a group. These last few weeks have been really interesting. I have gone over some stuff that I learned a long time ago and I have also covered a whole new set of photographical and technical abilities.
1 minute SMA for Merit/Distinction.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Stop Motion Animation (SMA)
Stop Motion Animation (SMA)
Date: 07/10/13
My Plans for my 1 minute Stop Motion Animation: Mind-map and Storyboard for 4 different ideas.
Task at hand:
My task at hand is now to complete a 1 minute SMA of one of these ideas, but because the minimum time limit has to be 1 minute, 900 individual shots(photos) will be required and that will equal 30 frames per shot, once we have opened it into photoshop and formatted it as an animation. This SMA is on a whole other level compared to the ones that i have already done. For this you ave to have a much more clearer understanding of how SMA's work and then you have to be more creative and demanding of yourself, but keep your idea simple, because simple = more photos. After all the hard work there comes the evaluation part where you have to be more critical how how the candidate has done his work.
How the process of this works: Photoshop Processes
ORIGINALS
My Plans for my 1 minute Stop Motion Animation: Mind-map and Storyboard for 4 different ideas.
My task at hand is now to complete a 1 minute SMA of one of these ideas, but because the minimum time limit has to be 1 minute, 900 individual shots(photos) will be required and that will equal 30 frames per shot, once we have opened it into photoshop and formatted it as an animation. This SMA is on a whole other level compared to the ones that i have already done. For this you ave to have a much more clearer understanding of how SMA's work and then you have to be more creative and demanding of yourself, but keep your idea simple, because simple = more photos. After all the hard work there comes the evaluation part where you have to be more critical how how the candidate has done his work.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 05/11/13
Mind-map, Drawings and little Paragraph about plans for my Positive Imaging for Jeans:
Mind-map and Drawings:
A Little Paragraph of what my drawing and mind-map explain:
Mind-map, Drawings and little Paragraph about plans for my Positive Imaging for Jeans:
Mind-map and Drawings:
A Little Paragraph of what my drawing and mind-map explain:
My 9 Images that I first chose to use:
My Three Photo of Jeans for Advertisement:
(PROCESS OF HOW I CREATED THE ADVERTISING LOGO FOR THESE 3 JEANS):
First I imported the two different photos into Adobe PhotoShop CS5 then I downloaded an image of the Doc Martens logo to my desktop from the internet, then I imported that into photoshop. The task for me at hand, was for me to add the logo picture to the jeans picture and then impose it, so that it looked like it was an actual logo on the jeans, so as to advertise the jeans for use and to show how creative Doc Martens are. I must say that it was quite an interesting task to do. Some of the technical skills that I needed to do this task, I had already learned about them, but some were completely new. The main one that I learned was in the layers pallet, how to change one setting from "normal' to either "screen' or "darken".
My Evaluation of What I did:
First I imported the two different photos into Adobe PhotoShop CS5 then I downloaded an image of the Doc Martens logo to my desktop from the internet, then I imported that into photoshop. The task for me at hand, was for me to add the logo picture to the jeans picture and then impose it, so that it looked like it was an actual logo on the jeans, so as to advertise the jeans for use and to show how creative Doc Martens are. I must say that it was quite an interesting task to do. Some of the technical skills that I needed to do this task, I had already learned about them, but some were completely new. The main one that I learned was in the layers pallet, how to change one setting from "normal' to either "screen' or "darken".
My Evaluation of What I did:
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 08/11/13
Research on Dr Martens Jeans:
Dr Martens is a British footwear brand that specialises in really stylish footwear and other shoe care products and manufactures other accessories, such as clothing and luggage etc. Dr Martens is also known by several different names. In addition they are known as Doctor Martens, Doc Martens, which I thought was the actual name of the company, also they are known as Docs as well as DM's.
Doc Martens is well known for its creation of jeans in modelling. After having looked at quite a few of their pictures of people wearing jeans, I notice that they use a very flashy and arty way to portray their work of fashion.
To put it another way, they mostly use a dark background and use flashy on their camera, because most of those images come out quite brightly and the models generally tend to be people with short or long dark hair, whilst wearing bright tops and then dark jeans with with very bright and flashy footwear, generally bright red, yellow, pink and green.
History of Doc Martens: Originally, a man called Klaus Martens, who was a doctor in the German army during World War II, founded "Doc Martens" after he had a severe ankle injury and made himself a pair of special boots that were comfortable for him to wear. He did this by looting a fine piece of leather from a cobbler's shop. After the war, many germans did this in their own towns. After not making much success on his own, Martens met up with a fried of his from university in 1947, a Luxembourgern, by the name of Dr. Herbert Funck. Funck was keen on the idea to help Martens with is business and was intrigued by the new shoe design. He later went into business later that year in Seeshaupt, Germany, using discared rubber and other materials left from the Luftwaffe airfields. This is where the main trigger for 'Doc Martens" clothing started.
Youtube adverts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPbSVfHqbmc
Research on Levis Jeans:
Levi Strauss & Co, or LS&CO or just simply known as Levi's is a privately held American clothing company, known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim Jeans. It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Bavaria to San Francisco, California to open a new west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business. About 20 years on from then, Levi Strauss and a tailor of his, Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent to make the first riveted men's work pants out of denim: the first blue jeans. The kind of clothing that people in the old west of America would wear. Cowboy clothing to be more precise. The company briefly experimented (in the 1970's) with a public stock listing, but remains owned and controlled by the descendants and relatives of Levi Strauss' his four nephews to be more truthful. The company's HQ is still based in San Francisco to this day.
History of Levi Strauss: Levi Strauss stared his business of jeans making at the 90 Sacramento Street address in San Francisco. Quite surprisingly, he moved addresses more than 2 times. 90 SS was where he began then he moved to 62 SS, then to 63 and then 65 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, California, which is where the HQ is today.
Going back to what I mentioned, as to what happened to Levi Strauss and his tailor Jacob Davis in 1873, they decided to work together as one had received a patent from someone, but didn't have the money to fund it by himself, so the two decided to work together and had this huge project to undergo. The patented rivet was later incorporated into the company's jean design and advertisements. Contrary to an advertising campaign that Levi sold his first jeans to gold miners during the Californian Gold Rush (which peaked in 1849), the manufacturing of denim overalls only began in the 1870's.The company then created their first pair of Levis 501 jeans in the 1890's. A style that became to be known as the worlds best item of clothing to sell.
Youtube adverts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPfQusCCq2g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orY4FVCy-vc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEn_1aSi9CE
Research on Jeans:
The Clothing JEANS:
Jeans are pants or trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Most the word or term "jeans" refers to a particular style of pants or trousers called blue jeans and were invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873. You can now by jeans in different colours than blue, but generally when people speak about them the generally mean that they are blue. Starting in the 1950's, jeans were originally designed for cowboys or as they were sometimes called the men of the wild west. They became popular among teenagers, ages 13 - 20, and especially members of the greaser subculture. Historic brands of jeans include "Levi's, Lee and Wrangler." Jeans come in various fits, including skinny, tapered, slim, straight, boot cut, narrow bottom, low waist, anti fit and flare. Jeans were originally invented for men, but they are for both men and women.
Worldwide Market for Jeans: North America has a global purchase for jeans at 39%. Following them is Europe at 20%, Japan & Korea at 10% and then the rest of the world at 31%.
Out of all the people on the planet, it is mostly Americans you have bought Jeans. In 2004 the Americans spent more than $14 billion USd on jeans and then they spent more than $15 billion USD in 2005. According to market-research firm NDP group, Americans bought $13.8 billion USD of mens's and women's jeans in the year 2011, 30th April.
Youtube adverts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPbSVfHqbmc
History of Doc Martens: Originally, a man called Klaus Martens, who was a doctor in the German army during World War II, founded "Doc Martens" after he had a severe ankle injury and made himself a pair of special boots that were comfortable for him to wear. He did this by looting a fine piece of leather from a cobbler's shop. After the war, many germans did this in their own towns. After not making much success on his own, Martens met up with a fried of his from university in 1947, a Luxembourgern, by the name of Dr. Herbert Funck. Funck was keen on the idea to help Martens with is business and was intrigued by the new shoe design. He later went into business later that year in Seeshaupt, Germany, using discared rubber and other materials left from the Luftwaffe airfields. This is where the main trigger for 'Doc Martens" clothing started.
Youtube adverts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPbSVfHqbmc
Research on Levis Jeans:
History of Levi Strauss: Levi Strauss stared his business of jeans making at the 90 Sacramento Street address in San Francisco. Quite surprisingly, he moved addresses more than 2 times. 90 SS was where he began then he moved to 62 SS, then to 63 and then 65 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, California, which is where the HQ is today.
Going back to what I mentioned, as to what happened to Levi Strauss and his tailor Jacob Davis in 1873, they decided to work together as one had received a patent from someone, but didn't have the money to fund it by himself, so the two decided to work together and had this huge project to undergo. The patented rivet was later incorporated into the company's jean design and advertisements. Contrary to an advertising campaign that Levi sold his first jeans to gold miners during the Californian Gold Rush (which peaked in 1849), the manufacturing of denim overalls only began in the 1870's.The company then created their first pair of Levis 501 jeans in the 1890's. A style that became to be known as the worlds best item of clothing to sell.
Youtube adverts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPfQusCCq2g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orY4FVCy-vc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEn_1aSi9CE
Research on Jeans:
Jeans are pants or trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Most the word or term "jeans" refers to a particular style of pants or trousers called blue jeans and were invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873. You can now by jeans in different colours than blue, but generally when people speak about them the generally mean that they are blue. Starting in the 1950's, jeans were originally designed for cowboys or as they were sometimes called the men of the wild west. They became popular among teenagers, ages 13 - 20, and especially members of the greaser subculture. Historic brands of jeans include "Levi's, Lee and Wrangler." Jeans come in various fits, including skinny, tapered, slim, straight, boot cut, narrow bottom, low waist, anti fit and flare. Jeans were originally invented for men, but they are for both men and women.
Worldwide Market for Jeans: North America has a global purchase for jeans at 39%. Following them is Europe at 20%, Japan & Korea at 10% and then the rest of the world at 31%.
Out of all the people on the planet, it is mostly Americans you have bought Jeans. In 2004 the Americans spent more than $14 billion USd on jeans and then they spent more than $15 billion USD in 2005. According to market-research firm NDP group, Americans bought $13.8 billion USD of mens's and women's jeans in the year 2011, 30th April.
Youtube adverts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPbSVfHqbmc
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Image Manipulation
Image Manipulation
My Paul M.Smith Practice Image:
How I managed to create this image:
First of all, I was shown on the computer, a photographer/artist who had specialised in this sort of photography. Which is where you have a certain set scene and then you have a number of people interacting with each other, but here is the interesting factor, all of the people that are interacting with each other are you and only you. In other words, it is a picture of you interacting with yourself. As you can see here, I have set my self up in the same scene, but I am sitting in different seats, each time. Around the some of the outlines of me, you can see the brush marks where I was a little clumsy when I was combining the image together.
How you do this process is actually quite basic and simple.
- Start off with setting up the kind of scene you particularly want. As you can see I chose our lecture room. The chairs were already set up for a lecture, so all I had to do was set up my camera and get someone to press the shutter button.
- Take up to 5 to 7 images with you in different places.
- Open Adobe Photoshop.
- Open the 1st and 2nd images and then by using the move tool, move the first image on top of the 2nd image.
- Select the correct layer and then turn that layer's opacity down so that you can see the two images of you as one image.
- Then by taking the rubber tool, go over the area of where the first image was and gradually the it will come out and the two images will come out like a Paul M. Smith image.
- Combine the two layers of the two images together then the two layers will become one layer.
- Next open the third image and do exactly the same process.
- One thing to point out, each time that you want to add an image, always add the most to the least. Therefore add the layer of the first two images to the layer of the third image.
- Finally at the end you will have your final product and a complete Paul M. Smith image. Just remember, when using the rubber tool to make it look like its all one image, be carful that you don't rub over areas, that don't need to be rubbed. As you can see I was a little bit clumsy in certain areas.
What I thought about this exercise.
To be quite honest, this was quite a weird task to undergo. Having to create an image that is of multiples of yourself interacting with each other, is not something that the average, day to day photographer does. When we were shown examples of some of these images by a well known artist Paul M.Smith, I thought, what in the world would a photographer gain from doing this kind of work. I understood his creativity, but I didn't understand some of the ideas that he had. All in all, I quite enjoyed playing around in Adobe Photoshop and using all of the different tools to make the image come to life. Usually, the editing part of a photographer's job is the most hard and boring. I can sometimes feel like that, but this time I found the selection/editing/manipulating quite fun.
Plans for my Real Paul M. Smith Images;
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| Write Up of what I have decided on doing. |
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| Drawing of my Image in my room at Hotwells, Bristol |
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| Drawing of my Image on Mardyke Wharf. |
My real Paul M. Smith Images: x2
1. Junes' of me in my room at Hotwells, Bristol.
2. Julys' of me on Mardyke Wharf, outside the Grain Barge, Bristol.
How the process of this works: Photoshop Processes
Image 1:
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| Process 1 |
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| Process 2 |
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| Process 3 |
Sorry for the slight un focused quality of these process progression images, but I had to reduce the size of them to quite small, so as to be able to add them to the blog.
FINAL IMAGE 1:
Image 2
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| Process 1 |
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| Process 2 |
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| Process 3 |
Sorry for the slight un focused quality of these process progression images, but I had to reduce the size of them to quite small, so as to be able to add them to the blog.
FINAL IMAGE 2:
Explanation of how I managed to create these photos:
By following the exact same process as I did for my Practice Paul M. Smith Image, I started with setting my self up on a certain scene. First I set myself and my camera up in my room at Hotwells, so that I could get my self and as much as the room in the shot as possible. By doing that I had to place my camera right into one of the corners of the room so as to be able to get the most detail as possible. When I did the shoot of me down on Mardyke Wharf I had to set-up my self in a way with having to work outside, but within an area radius that the camera lens could cover. I eventually found the right spot and then started clicking away. After I had finished shooting I transferred the photos to the computer and started to create the final product.
- Take up to 5 to 7 images with you in different places.
- Open Adobe Photoshop.
- Open the 1st and 2nd images and then by using the move tool, move the first image on top of the 2nd image.
- Select the correct layer and then turn that layer's opacity down so that you can see the two images of you as one image.
- Then by taking the rubber tool, go over the area of where the first image was and gradually the it will come out and the two images will come out like a Paul M. Smith image.
- Combine the two layers of the two images together then the two layers will become one layer.
- Next open the third image and do exactly the same process.
- One thing to point out, each time that you want to add an image, always add the most to the least. Therefore add the layer of the first two images to the layer of the third image.
- Finally at the end you will have your final product and a complete Paul M. Smith image. Just remember, when using the rubber tool to make it look like, its all one image, be carful that you don't rub over areas, that don't need to be rubbed.
With these two images, you can see that I went over the areas much more carefully and you can't see where I went over the points except for one or two slightly darker areas.
Did I enjoy this task:
Did I enjoy this task, the answer is yes.
It has opened a new door for me in my photography. To take a number of photos, separately and then combine them all together to create one final image is really cool. Paul M.Smith
although he was the main photographer who started this idea, his work I am not very keen on. It's most definitely not the kind of work that I would do myself. I wouldn't even think about it. For me that is the kind of work that one keeps to him/herself. His work of him in his army clothing and behaving like an army soldier I think is a little better. I am still not convinced that his work is the most attracting, but it is by far one of the most creative work I had seen.
What I am going to try to do now is to try a few more experiment like these 3. My one practice and my two real images have given me some inspiration and some interesting ideas to try to practice in the future to come. All in all, this was a very adventurous and creative process.
Creating my own image manipulation with my own eyes.
ORIGINALS
MANIPULATED IMAGES:
How I Created these images:
First of all I had to take the photos, using my macro lens which has a fixed focal length of 100mm, so that meant that I only had a certain distance to work with. Once the images were taken however, here came the fun part. In Adobe Photoshop, open an image of your eye and then open an image of the eye feature that you want to use. select the feature type eye that you want to use and then, just like with the Paul M.Smith instructions, use the move tool and transfer the eye, to the image of your eye. Fit it onto the shape of your eye, using the free transformation tool and then set it. Then in the layers pallet, make sure that it is the layers of the image that you have just pasted on and turn the opacity mode to the mode that you think fits well with the two images overlapping. Once you have lined up and selected everything use the background eraser tool to go over parts that are not the eye. So as to be able to recognise the correct parts, turn the opacity mode to a mode that you can see the old eye or just turn the opacity down so that you can see what parts you are erasing. Once that is done, all you have to do is have a little play with colours and lighting effects and then you have your finished image.
The last photo of the edited, is actually an image of a women's face that I downloaded from the internet and the purple eye is a much harder effect to create than the red eye effect. As you can see, it fills the entire eye ball socket, not just the pupils.
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