Preliminary Task 2- Video Production!

We have now started our second task; video production, and during the first lesson we learnt how to use the video cameras and tripods. We also learnt about two things needed for excellent editing; 180 degree rule and match on action

180 Degree Rule
180 degree rule is when you have an imaginary line between the characters. The two characters must never appear in the same half of the frame. Each time the camera cuts they must remain in their own half of the frame, otherwise their eye levels will not match, and the audience may be confused as to how many people are in the scene.

Match On Action
Match on action is when there are a series of shots, from different angles that are edited together and still have fluency. This can only be achieved when teh distances between things are kept the same between shots.

Evaluation

In conclusion, I believe that my front cover and contents page for my magazine went well. I am very pleased with the finishing product, as it has similar characteristics of popular magazines, with clear colour schemes throughout, yet is unique with its own special features; the unusual title and the college moto blended into the background. Without a doubt the target audience for our magazine are pupils at the college, however we have tried to make our magazine global; calling it 'At the...' This is so we are able to expand on the title to adjust to different college's/schools so that we have a wider audience base.

The software and technology that i have used for the production of my magazine cover include the digital cameras and the computer software such as, photoshop cs2 and QuarkXpress, in my opinion reached my expectancy. The cameras worked really well, and i managed to take good photos which were nice to edit. Then each piece of software i used contained tools which allowed me to make my project just as i wanted it.

I really enjoyed making my magazine cover and contents page. Josh was also really easy to work with; we worked well together.

Our Contents Page

We then took another photo of outside the college. This was the photo we wanted as our background to our contents page. This did not need editing on photoshop, yet we put it onto QuarkXpress and added font boxes and a title: 'Contents'.

QuarkXpress

QuarkXpress is a very unusual piece of software, and as I had never used it before, this lesson I managed to learn how to use it. This ten enabled us to put our photo onto the template, where we then added text.

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This is now our final piece!

Photo Taken

In this lesson, Josh and I went outside and took a few photos which we considered using for our magasine cover. We chose one of Josh and then we edited it on Adobe Photoshop CS2. Josh was away the lesson before, so in this lesson I produced a few design ideas.