Secondary Research

We have looked at different types of products that could help us designing ours. Here are a couple of designs :











Here are a couple of designs for booklets that helped us:













These booklets gave us designs for the picture stamps, pattern design and colours.

Polarization - Photography

In the last two weeks in Creative Media Photography we have been learning about polarization. Polarization is a technique used by a special filter with crystalised slats to either take away relfections or enhance them. Also certain filters can be used to darken shadows and the sky to make other sections of the photo look enhanced. We learnt this last week.

This week we learnt how to bring out all the colours in a transparent object. We did this by having an old fashioned projecter then put a peice of difusior film on top then you put the polarization filter on top. You also have a polarization filter on the camera. Once you turn the focus and the filter you can increase or change slightly the patterns the colours are in.

The picture on the right is using the

Filter.

Technology / Techniques used in this project

In this project i have used many techniques, here are a list of them:

• On the text i have used effects such as Drop shadow, Bevel and Emboss, Stroke and shadow. These are the main ones on text.
• I have used the Elliptical marquee tool to cut out pictures in a circle to use in my bookmark.
• Also lots of creative text.
• I edited the pictures to improve the colour and tone of the picture.
  
• For the pictures in the booklet I put them onto a white background then flattened the image and used the Rectangular marquee tool to cut them out and stick them on the booklet design.
  
• I used a drop shadow and stroke to give the picture the effect of being printed out of a Polaroid camera.
• I used a tool on the Mac keyboard to cut out a section of the map I wanted.

These are the only pieces of technology I have used:
Digital camera
Digital SLR camera
USB lead (to download the pictures on to computers.)
Apple Mac computer
Windows computer
Printer
USB memory stick
Scanner

Copyright issues

There are certain issues when it comes to copyright as it is quite a tricky subject. You are aloud to use peoples objects as long as you don't try and make prophets from your product. Also if big companies have bought into all their products you cannot use a clip for more then a couple of seconds otherwise it is illegal. Also if you are portraying a bad message about that company than it is illegal to use any of their products to do that.

Also we learnt about intellectual property rights. This is when someone makes a product or uses somebody Else's work, the client (which is either you or someone else) has to either buy it straight out which means the person who made the product gets one large amount of money at once or pay gradually which means person who made the product gets a percentage each time that product sells.

I learnt how to use these rules in my Project which is all graphic design work. I learnt that to use the college logo we have to make it a certain size and that I'm not allowed to use other peoples pictures unless I asked them or bought it, but I took all the pictures I used myself.

Bibliography

http://www.saxoprint.co.uk/ - This is where we found out our budget for printing costs


Falmouth University - This is where we found our examples of the bookmarks. This was because Falmouth Uni was holding the UCAS convention this year.


Penwith College - This is where we got booklets, leaflets and other objects to give us some design ideas.

Penwith Campus - We took photos of the campus and the area.

http://www.cornish-pirates.com/sponsorship/website_advertising.htm
http://www.nixondesign.com/contact
These two websites helped us with our budgeting as we were allowed to contact them about it.

proposal Bookmark (real)

We are going to make a bookmark with the same design as the Internet advert we were going to do. On the front is going to be a black whole with one question about the college and then a picture of the area and a picture of the college on the back. We would do it as a series of 12, so there would be on each one a different question and a different picture to collect. So every time they email the college about the course or come to an opening evening they get the next one. The idea is to draw them into the college and then they see how good it is and what options they have here. We would use the email idea to the students coming from different countries.

The budget of this is:

Net price: 67.81 +VAT: 11.87 = GROSS PRICE: 79.68

I think here me and my friend were creative thinkers as we came up with this idea and had to think creatively.

Budgets & Health and Safety

Today we had a session on Budget and Health & Safety within the media. Our specific objective was make up artists working on the next avatar movie because instead of doing it all in a computerised format they want to use actors and do it all free hand. We had to work out what objects they would need and how much they would cost to use or buy to last 10 years. Also we had to work out how much the make up artist's wages would cost. Here are some examples that we came up with: Equipment - lighting - £20,000 , Paint make up - £5000
Next we had to think of health and safety elements for example: Vaccinations, sun block if filming in hot place.

Commission Project Budgeting
We have found out budgets for our products by doing a quote on a website called http://www.saxoprint.co.uk/shopo2/Main.aspx?=flyer

The budget for our Booklets is: £65.46
The budget for our bookmarks is:

Net: 67.81 +VAT: 11.87 = Gross: 79.68

I think here I was an effective particapator and a reflective learner as we had to engage in a group disscussion as well as learn and right about the things we learnt.

University Trip

We went to falmouth university on Wednesday 17th March to look at the range of courses they have at their University. Also it was the UCAS convention. This is where all the universities in the country come together and show their colleges to the students. They each have their own stall and 2-3 people from each university their to give you leaflets and answer any questions you have for them. There are a few courses that sound interesting but i am going to continue my research into it.

At this UCAS convention we were able to pick up some booklet and bookmarks that influenced our own design on our products. Here are a few examples:

I think here I was a reflective learner as Found out ideas then enco-operated them in my work.

Our project so far

We have started to make our bookmarks and our photo booklets. They are going quite well. For our booklet we decided that the front and back pages will be white with designs on it in mainly blue and green colour. The inside pages will be green/blue background with swirl design and pictures of students, the area and college with comments from staff and students.

Here is our template for our bookmarks:

Here is our template for our photo booklet:

We have changed a few details slightly in our booklet as we have less comments and a there a few changes on the front and back page.

I think here I was a team worker as we worked as a team to produce these designs.

PLTS 3rd march

Today the plts was Team Worker. We worked in a group of 5 to discuss activities for trengwainton gardens for them to use all year round. We come up with a couple ideas such as treasure hunt, family bike rides and plant your own plant in a little patch. We pitched these ideas to the group and they liked all of our ideas especially the grow you own plant.

I think i worked with others to acheive targets and i was able to discuss ideas and make desicions as part of a team.

Changing ideas

We decided to change our project as we found out that we were not skilled enough to make an advert on the college website. If we were skilled highly it would still take many months commitment that we could not give to it. Also we did not have the correct equipment or software to allow us to make this product.
We talked to many lectures about our new idea and they were able to give us support and help us with this as they all had different little ideas and skills for us to put in our product. One of the lectures is our graphic design teacher so each week he is going to be there to help us and give us little hints and information to use in our product.

I think we had to be team worker to work together to figure out what we were going to do, but also a creative thinker to thinker of new ideas.