Today we had our first go at photography. This was a fun task, working in groups we had to take pictures at different angles and from different places.
after taking the required amount of photos i went on to take a few more artistic pictures of my class mates again using different angles at different ranges and from different positions.
using the camera was easy just a case of point and shoot but i did play with the focus a bit for different effects.

After the photography we sat down for group tutorials to discuss any issues that we may be having on the course, I am happy to say that there don't seem to be any problems yet.

The rest of monday

For the rest of this Monday i have been working on making mock posters of what my final posters should look like. As we are not allowed to use main text (text that we have added to the final design) i found it a bit harder than i had expected, by using only images to explain the meaning of the poster was hard and required alot more thought than i realized.

This is my CCTV awareness poster.

I made this using an existing cctv sign with a picture of the earth as well as many CCTV cameras to try to illustrate that CCTV is everywhere.

This is for my Pro CCTV poster.

This one was made to show that if you are caught on camera it can be used as evidence.

i show this with the judge having a CCTV camera as his head and i portray the criminal as the classic prisoner in the black and white striped clothing.

to help push the point i added another person with a camera head.

This is my Anti-CCTV poster.

For this poster i went for a more minimalistic approach with a map being viewed by CCTV cameras surrounded by barbed wire. i stuck to keeping it simple to try and push across that a CCTV nation is like a prison

I produced these with photoshop mostly using the cut and paste feature's and with images gathered from the Internet (you gotta love that google image search). As well as cut and paste i have used the clone stamp tool and the blur tool, there are automatic tools to do this for you but i like the personal touch. To reposition and re angle items i used the transform tools located in the edit menu , finally to clean up the images i used the eraser tools to remove any edges that i didn't need or looked out of place

all in all i found using photoshop easy but the task a challenge.

Monday morning

This morning we have been doing more keyskills in preperation for next week I have to start aiming to talk less and let others talk more.
Lets hope that i learn to shutup.

Yesterday we started on photo shop

We went over the basics about different types of image files,i have used photoshop many times in the past but without any guidense atleast with a tutor in the room i can ask questions about the tools i dont understand.

we covered resolutions and pixels for example a screen DPI (dots per inch) is only 72

but the DPI for a print is 150 to 300

we then started working on composting our own alien scape as seen above.

as i have used photo shop before i found this task easy but i did learn about quick mask mode,

something i hadn't used before

this afternoon we made mock posters of what we plan to make for our asignement,

im happy how mine has come out but hope to spend more time on the final project.

22/9/09

I have just finished my mood board's.
i ended up basing them on CCTV rather than the war as i felt that it was a subject closer to home.

I'm not so confident about them as i have never made one before but i tyred to make them
based on different aspects of the same theme using different styles for each.
the political concept that i have chosen is CCTV and the big brother culture.
I chose this finally as i believe it covers both political and social concept's.

i can see now how mood boards can be very useful from a design and ideas tool and plan to use similar techniques in the future.

21/9/09

Today we started with keyskils alot of the class moned about it but i can see why its useful. We then handed in our resarch on the history of photomontage and photography. I was surprised at how often the media of photomontage had been used in propogander the nazis and the allies used photomontage in the war.

im confident that i did well but with more time i could have done more.
After that we started our mood bords. I have never used a mood board befor sop this is a bit of a learning curve for me, I have based my mood boards on the cost of the war for oil,
The reasons for for the war on terror and Human rights in the war on terror
I picked these as i know they should have an impact on the people that look at them,
i should have them finished by wensday

After much messing around i have finaly got my first blog up and running.

My name is Robert Pallier and im doing a BTEC 1st Diploma in Interactive Media

through out the duration of the course i will be updateing this blog with work and resarch that i have done.

i hope that this course will lead on to the games development course and that the skills learnt here will be usefull out of the classroom.