Course work 1 (camera research)

 The camera im going to use is a camera model-finepix s4300 

https://dl.fujifilm-x.com/support/manual/s/finepix_s4200-s4500_manual_en.pdf 

What the dials signify on the top of the camera. 

Fuji Guys S3400 - Getting Started 

Showed me in detail what some of the dials/camera settings looked like. 

Fujifilm Finepix Overview Tutorial 

What I learned? Shutter priority, how long it takes for the camera to take a photo. The quicker its taken the better quality of the photograph. I also learnt about appeture which is to do with the lens of the camera. Each camera on the front has information of how far the lens can open and close. If the lens were to be in f/1.8 the focused objects background would be very blurry, but if it were in f/22 the object and background will both be clearly visible. (iso) 

 

With the information that I learnt I took a number of pictures as practise. However the camera that I had would not blur the backgrounds of the pictures taken even though I followed the instructions of the photographer experts. Which has brought to me that the camera in my possession isn’t powerful enough for what i want it to do.

the image here was taken in a sunny enviroment, the camera unfortunatly wasn't able to capture the image in a high quality.

this background of this image here was blurred using photo shop showing what i wanted the camera to do originally.

Teacher Feedback:

1.  Quicker shutter speed doesn't mean a 'better' picture (what does "better" even mean???).  I've seen some epic pictures taken with long shutter speeds.  
2. Quicker shutter speed allows in less light so pictures will be darker - a bit like the picture of you by the wall.  Longer shutter speed will give brighter pictures but any movement can cause issues.  But aperture also affects the amount of light that comes into the camera and F-Stop settings  also need to be considered.  
3. Look at these links (the second one even has a picture excatly like you want to achieve)

Shutter speed photography | What is shutter speed? | Adobe

What is Aperture in photography? Knowing your settings | Adobe

2. BBQ Pictures - first one is fuzzy and I'd guess it's down to the camera moving.  Second one looks like it's out of focus.  Remember that focus can be manual or auto and which you use will depend on how much control you want.

3. Nice work in Photoshop to blur the background in the picture of you but I'd suggest a bigger patern in the background.  The small house bricks with the cement in between are hard to blur enough to get the effect you want befre they turn into a generic mush.  I'd suggect bigger blocks like a chuch wall or breeze blocks, or maybe even a fence.

We'll do some work on this when we get back from Wales as I have managed to achieve exactly what you want on the camera we have here, but not on my first or second attempt.  It took a fair few goes with tweaking the settings each time.  This stuff takes some people years to master.

04 C & C Website

05 Audience Production

 16/3/2022

Formed my focus group

GOALS

looking for members to participate

Three Questions for the members

Write a conclusion based on my results

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I gathered seven people, five males and two females. Even though my target audience will be male, there will still be some females who might want to purchase the magazine. The age rage is between 20-30 years.

I showed them my practise mock ups of my front cover and contents pages, and asked them for their opinions and to review it. Also telling them and showing a front cover from the magazine esquire that I based it on. Their opinions and views were very conclusive, the front page's fonts were slightly unreadable, not eye catching. The layout needed to be altered. The logo looked unprofessional. They also said that it would be hard and time consuming to find suitable outdoor environments for photoshoots and suggested that i use slightly colour filled backgrounds as Esquire mostly use them for magazine covers. For my contents page they said it looked good but there were many blank spots, the page needed to have more images, to much writing was on it and it needed to be more appealing, the model present was a good example of what to have on a front page but as its a mock up the quality was bad, they also suggested that I don't need to just have a male as a model on my front covers I could have a female, they also said that the model looking towards the audience was also a good technique as it gives mode of address for the audience. 

With this criticism in mind I tend to use solid backgrounds when I'm taking pictures of models for my front cover, find suitable font which could appear on a magazine, edit my logo and make it more appealing and professional, add more images to my contents pages, fill in most of the page as possible and make both my front cover and contents pages more appealing to consumers and consider if I should have a female model for one of my front covers.

06 Audience Website

03 C & C Production

 

https://ccgrammarschool-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/16weedono_ccgrammarschool_co_uk/EQFAtM6CGR9GrNlzl44DpfwByERNI-rutNr2rT9P3f_z2Q?e=7yvrCy

02 charity poster practice task

 Mock up 1

Mock up 2

Finishing product 1

Finishing product 2

00 Teacher comments

 MUSIC VIDEO TASK 

At some point we need to work on reformatting your blog so that it conforms to the conventions of all the school blogs. I will help with this. It is not far off and shouldn’t take long. 

 

The research into the formatting of storyboards and shooting scripts is good and it is clearly well presented. You also clearly put a lot of effort into the storyboard that you produced and the varied formatting of sketches and found images works perfectly well to convey your ideas. If you choose to produce a music video when the briefs are released, I recommend that you give a little more attention to matching generic codes to your finished product and to thinking about the timing of shot. A good attempt.

ADVERTISING TASK

There is a clear sense of the effort you have put into this. The mock ups are sound and show good progression to the main task. The one thing you would need to do if this was your real coursework would be to justify the large change between the main and end product. I suspect it was something to do with the issue of getting people to take part in your photoshoots. For this task it is no problem at all, but if you find that you are having difficulty accessing models, please always let me know and I will try to support you on this.

As for the final productions, I do like the photos. The one of the two dogs in cages is especially emotional. I would personally have tried zooming in closer to their faces, as this would have been even more emotional. 

Good choice of colours and fonts, but remember to proof read carefully and also to think about using something like a stroke or drop shadow in order to bring the text out of the background.

Good stuff. Looking forward to your work on the real thing now.